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Backboard (Bb) student instructions for Engineering Accounting and Engineering

Finance Rev. p
Each student at SMU including distance students, receives a Welcome letter by US
Postal mail rom SMU. !his letter is usually sent to your home address and sho"s your
SMU ID and your SMU Email. # you do not get this letter ater the semester starts,
contact $im %ees at &'()*+,)'(-+ .dees/engr.smu.edu or the registrar0s oice at &'()
*+,)&12,
Important course materials as well as your exam numerical grades and your course
letter grade will be loaded into Bb. This will be your notification of your exam results
and answers to exam questions. You should use the exam answers in Bb to verify my
grading of your exam. Your final course letter grade will also be loaded into SM
!ccess soon after Bb is loaded and all exams have been graded.
"lease log on the day before the first class and hit all of the lin#s on your Bb home
page. It is a fairly simple course management system and it will get your exam
grades$ exam answers$ mail and important course information to you quic#ly.
How to logon to Bb?
'3 4og into 5b using http677courses.smu.edu7
2) Enter your Login name that is your SMU ID 8you must use an ,)digit SMU #%
"ith leading 9eros i necessary to ma:e the ,)digits3.
# you have lost your Welcome letter and your SMU #%, call the SMU ;elp
%es: at &'()*+,);E4P 8(2-*3 or email them at help/smu.edu and they "ill
reply to "ith instructions about ho" to get your #%. !hey "ill need your <ame
and Social Security number or veriication
23 Enter your Password "hich is your SMU ID 8unless you changed it3
(3 =lic: on your course >Engineering Finance? or @Engineering Accounting@
<o" you are in ABUR class home page rom "here you can navigate to vie"
your grades and eCam ans"ers.
You are encouraged to change your password and you should consider using the same
password that you use for SM !ccess. If you change it for the %inance or !ccounting
course$ it is changed for any SM Bb course in which you are currently enrolled or will
enroll in the future. &owever$ changing your password in a course also changes the
password for your other Bb courses$ if any.
SOME MORE ADVICE FOR O! FROM Bb MA"A#EME"$
Some will report that you cannot log into Bb. Trust the developers' In the vast
ma(ority of the cases$ you are typing in the wrong ser I) or "assword$ not using any
leading *eros in your ser I)$ are ignoring case$ are pressing the +,-T,./ #ey before
you type the password$ or the 0!"S loc# #ey is on$ or the -M loc# #ey is not on. If
you are certain that you are following instructions$ clic# the help option.
Do ou !now "ow to get our SMU Email?
!he SMU Email address is in the orm yourname/smu.edu and is obtained through
WE5MA#4
Aour SMU ID is necessary to get your SMU Email and is discussed on page ' above
All SMU students have both.
Why are they importantD
!he SMU ID is necessary to access several systems such as.
!o get email addressed to your SMU Email address in the orm o
yourname/smu.edu
!o get into SMU Access https677access.smu.edu7 and veriy your inal course
grade
!o get into 5b http677courses.smu.edu7 to get your eCam grades and eCam
ans"ers
!o get into your SMU WE5MA#4 http677"ebmail&.smu.edu7 or vie"ing SMU
Email on such items as getting tuition paid, vie"ing your tuition bills and getting
other communications sent to that Email account. #uition billing $or students
is onl sent to our SMU Email address.
# you do not :no" your SMU ID
=all the SMU ;elp %es: at &'()*+,);E4P 8(2-*3 or email them at help/smu.edu and
they "ill help you "ith instructions about ho" to get your SMU #%. !hey "ill need your
name and social security number or veriication.

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