In some of the courses, you will find Word, PowerPoint, or Excel documents you will need to complete your assignments. When you click on one of these links, the following menu will appear:

You can open the document within Blackboard, but the more convenient option is to Save it to your hard drive. In this way, you will have access to it once you are no longer online. Click on the Save button to bring up a window that will allow you to navigate your hard drive to the folder where you wish to store the document. You may either keep the default name of the document or change it. When you have the location and name selected, click Save.