Blackboard Software

Detailed information about Blackboard, the course management system at North Central College. Blackboard is the course management system at North Central College. The Blackboard entry page is: http://blackboard.noctrl.edu

Frequently Asked Questions:
Students
Faculty

Blackboard 8 Information:
Blackboard 8 Faculty Release Notes (pdf, 1.2MB)
Blackboard 8 Instructor Manual (pdf, 4MB)

Blackboard 7 Information:
Blackboard 7.1 What's New in the Discussion Board? (pdf, 205KB)
Blackboard 7.2 Faculty Release Notes (pdf, 201KB)
Blackboard 7.3 Faculty Release Notes (pdf, 201KB)
Blackboard 7.3 Instructor Manual (pdf, 1,581KB)

Course Creation/Deletion Schedule:

Week 5: The next term's courses are created and instructors are assigned to them based on the information in Datatel.
 
Friday of Week 10 (Fall term only): Complete rosters for Interim courses are uploaded.
 
Thursday and Friday of finals week: Classes from last year's term are deleted.  (e.g. if this is finals week of 07/WI, 06/WI courses will be deleted)
 
Friday before the start of the term: Complete rosters for the term's courses are uploaded.

If you need to keep a Blackboard longer, please contact the Help Desk