Select "GO TO THE FORUM" (below) to open a new browser window and select a button labeled "Login" to log on to BlackboardTM. Your user name and password are the ones that you use for your VCU email account. This browser window, with these instructions, will remain open.
Once you have logged on, you should find this course listed on the "Welcome" page under "My Courses". Select (2008 Fall) ELEMENTARY ASTRONOMY and then the "Discussion Board" button.
If your browser accepts cookies, you only need to log on the first time that you access the forum during a given session. After that, you will go directly to the "Welcome" page on Blackboard whenever you click on the "Login" button.
Be sure to close each browser window (including this one) when you are done. The Astronomy course page that you came from is still open.