All courses under the health informatics program are managed online through Blackboard and delivered in the "hybrid" format, which includes:
- synchronous sessions through Elluminate, featuring:
- live interaction between the instructor and students
- regularly-scheduled sessions, held typically once per week, during the early evenings
- synchronous audio participation requires the purchase and use of a headset and microphone
- asynchronous course assignments and activities which are completed on your own
- one 8-hour face-to-face session scheduled on the final session of each semester
- students living outside the local area are encouraged to make hotel reservations as early as possible
- at the time you book your reservation, mention that you are a UF student and (depending on the hotel) you may get a discount
UF Email Account
- Use your UF email account for classroom activities
- Only your UF email address is “linked” to Blackboard, so your instructor can email you as an individual, as part of a group, or as an entire class
- Home and work email addresses change frequently, and your instructor can’t keep up, so email your instructor using only your UF account
Email Your Instructor From Home
- Go to the UF website, logon to UF Mail
- Compose and send your email message
- Read all emails in their entirety - important content can be at the end of an email too
- Review all attachments on the email. Save files to your own PC as instructed or necessary
- Follow-through with all requests to reply, follow-ups, etc.