Navigating Fordham University: A Comprehensive Guide to the Student Portal and Resources

Fordham University provides a comprehensive suite of online resources and services designed to support students throughout their academic journey. The student portal, known as MyPages, serves as the central access point for these resources, offering convenient access to academic, financial, and administrative information. This guide aims to provide a detailed overview of the Fordham University student portal and the various resources available to students, faculty, and staff.

Accessing the Student Portal (MyPages)

The student portal, or MyPages, is the gateway to the University's online services for students, faculty, staff, and alumni. This site contains registration, academic course, financial aid, and bill payment information.

Blackboard: Your Online Learning Hub

Blackboard is Fordham University's learning management system, accessible at any time from any computer with an Internet connection via Fordham's Blackboard portal. Instructors can manage all course materials online, making them immediately accessible to students.

Key Features and Resources within Blackboard

Course Management: Instructors can manage all course materials online, making them immediately accessible to students.
Blackboard Ultra: For additional information about how to use Blackboard Ultra, please view the resources on this page, on the Blackboard for Faculty page, or visit our Blackboard Ultra resource site.
Blackboard Essentials Online Course: Faculty can leverage Blackboard effectively for their courses through the new Blackboard Essentials online course, a self-paced course that will teach you best practices for using Blackboard Ultra to engage students. Learn how to create announcements, post assignments, build tests and quizzes, manage the grade center, and more.
Technical Support: Have a specific question about Blackboard? Need technical support?
Chat Support: Access chat support directly within Blackboard.
Automatic Course Creation and Enrollment: When Banner lists you as a course instructor, Blackboard automatically creates a course. Banner automatically adds registered students to Blackboard courses.
Browser Compatibility: For the best online experience with Blackboard, make sure your browser is up to date.

Accessing Blackboard

To access Fordham Blackboard, log in to fordham.edu > My Apps > Common Tools > Blackboard. Registered students are automatically added to Blackboard courses. You can view your course on Blackboard when your instructor has made it available. Courses listed as unavailable are not accessible from your "My Courses" list. Instructors are responsible for managing their blackboard course rosters. Students need to be registered for a course in Banner, even if you are auditing.

Blackboard System Requirements

To ensure optimal performance with Blackboard, it's important to meet the minimum and recommended system requirements:

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Minimum Requirements:

Operating System: Windows 10, version 1809 or higher, Mac OSX 10.13 or higher
Processor: 1 GHz processor
Memory: 512 MB of RAM
Monitor Resolution: 1024 x 768
Free Hard Disk Space: 5 GB of free disk space
Internet Connection: Broadband (high-speed) Internet connection with a consistent minimum speed of 1.5 Mbps

Recommended Requirements:

Operating System: Windows 10 version 2004, Mac OS 10.15
Processor: 2 GHz or faster processor
Memory: 2 GB of RAM or higher
Monitor Resolution: 1024 x 768 or higher
Free Hard Disk Space: 20 GB or higher of free space
Internet Connection: Broadband (high-speed) Internet connection with a speed of 4 Mbps or higher
Internet Browser: Respondus Lockdown Browser and Firefox or Chrome

Course Merging Considerations

Be aware that if you request courses to be merged that already include publisher content, then the publishers will need to be contacted to “unlink” the courses so that you can set up the publisher content in the merged course.

Idea Exchange

The Idea Exchange is specifically a place for Blackboard to track and manage enhancement requests to the product.

Library Resources

Fordham University Libraries offer a wealth of resources and services to support students' academic pursuits.

Course Reserves (Ares)

Course Reserves (Ares) contain pertinent course readings and materials your professors have designated specifically for your classes.

Borrowing Privileges for Online Students

Fordham students in the online learning programs enjoy borrowing privileges for materials owned and available at the Fordham University Libraries.

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Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Service

Fordham’s online-only graduate students and faculty have access to Fordham’s interlibrary loan (ILL) service. Interlibrary loan’s primary focus for those involved in the online-only programs is to provide digital materials of articles and book chapters. Loans from outside libraries will not be requested via ILL unless the student/faculty member is able to travel to one of Fordham’s three campuses to retrieve and return. For more information and to create an account, click here and then the "First Time Users" link on the ILLiad home page. When creating an account, choose Online Only-Graduate as one’s status and Virtual Campus as one’s delivery location. Items available in our electronic holdings, including electronic reserves, will not be sent through our Document Delivery service. Code, governing copyright and fair use, in order to be processed. We attempt to fill all requests in the order they are received.

Remote Access and Troubleshooting

Having trouble opening an article on your laptop? Struggling to navigate a specific database? Click here to get tips for remote access, best practices for access problems, and contact information for when you need it.

Visiting Other Libraries

Please contact the library you are interested in using to determine the access policies and/or restrictions before visiting in person.

Academic Programs and Curriculum

Fordham offers a variety of majors, minors, concentrations, and preprofessional programs across all three schools. Our rigorous liberal arts and sciences core curriculum forms the heart of our Jesuit education at Fordham. It provides a solid foundation in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences while providing an unparalleled degree of student choice. This curriculum helps all our students learn to analyze and synthesize information, articulate their thoughts, and adapt to our ever-changing world. Gabelli students have an additional business core, so students nurture their curiosity and develop as business leaders.

Additional Resources and Support

Faculty Technology Services: Faculty Technology Services offers regular group and one-on-one training sessions.
Google Workspace:
- This video introduces Gemini 2.0, which brings enhanced performance, more multimodality, and new native tool use.
- This guide will show you how to view your Google Drive storage and find the locations of specific files.
- This video will show you how to export, download, and backup your files to your computer or an external hard drive using Google Takeout.
Connecting to the Fordham Network: This guide will show you how to connect your MacBook to the Fordham network.
Accessing Adobe Acrobat DC: Learn how to access Adobe Acrobat DC from Apporto, which allows you to create and edit PDFs.

Important Dates

All registrations will begin at 8:00 am Eastern Time.

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Tuesday, Nov. Ph.D.
Wednesday, Nov. M.A., M.T.S., and M.S.
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Friday, Nov. M.A., M.T.S., and M.S.
Monday, Nov. Friday, Dec. These dates are for students in online M.S.T. and Ed.D.
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Thursday, Oct. On-campus M.S.W.
Friday, Oct. All Ph.D.
Wednesday, Nov. All online and hybrid M.S.W.
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New Student Orientation

The New Student Orientation teams and the Office for Student Involvement are incredibly excited for your student to begin their journey here at Fordham University. Being nervous about starting college is normal-for both students and their families! Rest assured, these feelings will subside within the first few weeks of starting at Fordham. Check out a few tips that will help you and your student conquer fears early on.

Fordham University's Commitment to Diversity

Fordham University admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.

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