From Spring 2009 all the students who needs to take the classes online should download the "Online Classes Approval Form" from the link below and fill it and get it approved before attending online.
Download Your form here "Online Classes Approval Form"

INSTRUCTIONS TO ACCESS BLACKBOARD & ELLUMINATE

FIND YOUR USERNAME & PASSWORD:

1) go to http://www.alcorn.edu;
2) click "Online Services" in top right corner;
3) click "Enter Secure Area";
4) sign in with your User ID (click "Look Up your ASU Generated ID" to find your ASU ID) and PIN (usually your 6 digit date of birth if you have not changed it previously);
5) click "Personal Information";
6) click "View Email Address";
7) note your email address that looks like: jstudent@mail.alcorn.edu;
8) your Blackboard username is the first part of your email address that you noted in step #7 and your password is the same as the PIN you used to sign in to the secure area in step #4;
9) sign off/exit.

SIGN ON TO BLACKBOARD:

1) go to http://blackboard.alcorn.edu;
2) click "Login";
3) login with the credentials you noted in the previous section in step #8;
4) click the class you want to access.

ACCESS ELLUMINATE:

1) click "Communications" in the left menu/margin;
2) click "Elluminate";
3) click the class/session to attend.



The university encourages all faculty/staff to use our @alcorn.edu addresses to communicate with students and to educate/expect students to use their official @mail.alcorn.edu email address for course and university related communication.