Blackboard is a useful tool to enhance students' learning experience and give instructors a central location to provide information, distribute materials, and communicate. Although several online programs at NNU solely use Blackboard to deliver courses at a distance, this Course Management System (CMS) may also be used to supplement a classroom course or create a hybrid course.

Blackboard Support for Faculty/Staff
Blackboard Support for Students

Announcement: Northwest Nazarene University will make a transition from the Blackboard course management system to Angel Learning in Spring 2010. Face-to-face or online training will be available for instructors and support personnel beginning October 19. Please visit the Blackboard-to-Angel page for an overview video and details on the Learning Opportunities. Resources and training will be available for students beginning in December.

Enter Blackboard at NNU
   See how to enter Blackboard (5 mins.)

Logins for employees as well as adjuncts and students in degree-seeking programs: Your NNU Blackboard account relies on your Novell username, which is some form of your name, and on your Novell password. The initial Novell password is the word "default" followed by your NNU ID number, e.g., default123456. Please use the Novell Password Management tool to change and manage your password.

Change your Novell password
   See how to change your Novell password (4 mins.)

Logins for adjuncts and students in non-degree-seeking programs: Your NNU Blackboard account relies on your NNU ID number, which is usually 5 or 6 digits long. Your initial password is the word "default" followed by your NNU ID number, e.g., default123456. Please change your password within Blackboard after logging in.

• The ability to post Microsoft Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, images, streaming media and other files
• A Review tool to encourage accountability
• An Adaptive Release feature to customize what content each student views and when
• E-mail from within Blackboard so that students and instructors can communicate with each other
• A Discussion Board, where students and instructors can carry on a threaded dialogue
• A live chatroom for simultaneous contact
• An area for Group projects, where students can exchange files, use a discussion board, use a chatroom, and e-mail each other
• An online Test Manager with many different question types and automatic grading
• The ability to send and receive assignments online
• An online Gradebook viewable only by the instructor and individual students