McNeese State University will use a standardized LOGIN and PASSWORD system for Blackboard Courses. This will be the ONLY ID and password to remember for ALL your Blackboard courses.

All students will have "msu-" before their first initial of their first name, and complete last name up to 15 characters including the prefix of msu-.  This is all in lower case.

i.e. msu-jsmith

In the event of common last name combinations the last character will be a digit.

i.e. msu-jthibodeau5

Note that the user ID field length is limited and truncated to 15 characters.  If you type in characters longer than 15 spaces then your ID's will NOT WORK.

All students will use their birth date for their password WITHOUT hyphens or slashes.   The format will be as follows:

YYYYMMDD

i.e. August 12, 1984  will be entered as 19840812

Have you forgotten your password? 
You can use the "forgot password script" within the Blackboard Screen.

You must be sure of your email address that is in the Blackboard system.  This program WILL NOT not work otherwise!!

If this does not get you into the system, contact your instructor immediately.

Blackboard Enrollment Help for Students

Students are automatically enrolled once at the beginning of the semester during the drop/add period. Anyone who enrolls late, or changes schedules will need to do 1 of 2 things. First, you can log into Blackboard and click on "Course List". In the course search box enter the course abbreviation and click go.

Your course and section should be showing. If it is not, contact your instructor.
On the right you should see a button that says enroll.  

If your instructor gave you an enrollment password you will enter your enrollment password and you should then have access to that course.

You may need to repeat this enrolling procedure for as many courses that are using the Blackboard Course system. But remember. You will only have ONE ID and ONE PASSWORD.  If an instructor gives you an enrollment password it will JUST for that one course.

If you cannot find your course, or there is no enroll button, you will need to be added manually by the instructor.

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