This document provides guidance on training student assistants to provide technical support. It outlines identifying the needs and skills required, managing the hiring process, and steps for training students on providing support and using Blackboard. The training involves lessons on listening, preparing work orders, shadowing experienced students, completing online tutorials and tasks in Blackboard, practicing phone calls, and monitoring students' effectiveness through records, meetings, observations, surveys and praise. The goal is to get students up to speed quickly to effectively provide technical support.