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

Enter Blackboard at NNU

Your NNU Blackboard username is the same as your Novell username, which is some form of your name. Your initial password is the word “default” followed by your NNU ID number, e.g., default123456. After logging in, you will see your classes listed under My Courses. Click to enter.

Features

• 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