• You must have cookies enabled (or at least per-session-cookies).
• You must have JavaScript enabled.
• You have to have pop-up blocking disabled for my.usi.edu and, if you are using the myUSI Start page for www.usi.edu
• You probably want to “allow,” “white list,” or “safe list” my.usi.edu, mail.usi.edu, and sctssb.usi.edu in your (or your employer’s) firewall and/or web proxy.
• The sctssb.usi.edu site talks over SSL at port 8443. This might be important information for your security software or your employer’s firewall or Internet proxy server administrator.

MyUSI is USI’s portal which allows access to multiple products with one easy login.

Blackboard is classified as course management software or courseware.

Both share a few similar features such as chat, announcements, calendar.

The course resources found under myUSI are basic tools delivered with the product, but myUSI is not courseware. If you have already created a Blackboard site for your course, you may choose to add a link for this site under the Course Homepage in myUSI.

If you have not already designed anything for your course under Blackboard and need only basic chat, message board, e-mail, and a way to add links for your course, you may choose to use the Course Resources under myUSI.

MyUSI is a campus web portal that lets you access many of the university’s school services online. Faculty and students can read and create emails from their USI email account. It has email and chat features specific to each USI class. You can access a calendar of USI events, and receive announcements specific to your role within the university. There are also links for students to get to the online Blackboard system.