Communication tools

	Contact other participants and/or facilitators, either singly or in groups, using e-mail.
	Post discussion comments to a forum created by your manager or instructor; reply to other discussion postings.
	Engage in an online Lightweight Chat session, or use the shared whiteboard, with other members of your course within the Virtual Classroom.
	A list of students enrolled in your course, with links to email and Blackboard^® webpages.
	Use the discussion board, virtual chat, file exchange or email within the group set up by your manager or instructor. Accessing group pages Using file exchange