Please direct any questions about or issues with Blackboard Learn to the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Blackboard Helpdesk at bbhelp@northshore.edu.
Blackboard is the college's learning management system (LMS) and it is used to provide
faculty and students with an online environment for online and hybrid courses as well
as to supplement the learning experience within face-to-face or videoconference courses.
Blackboard integrates with Â鶹¹ÙÍø’s Banner student information system to automatically
provide "private course spaces" for each class taught at the college. Student enrollments
and faculty assignments are also handled automatically by the Banner integration.
Blackboard is accessible from the college’s portal. Once inside of Blackboard, faculty and students will see a list of courses,
organizations and other resources that are available to them.
This technology enhances the experience a student finds at Â鶹¹ÙÍø by fostering student
interaction in a variety of ways. An instructor can choose to use Blackboard to display
and deliver content, communicate and interact with students, provide online assignments,
and assess students’ work. Blackboard can also be used to provide department or group
space for many activity areas – including teaching, research and public service.
Blackboard supports many types of media for creating and interacting with engaging
content such as:
- Audio and video, for example YouTube videos
- Discussion, group, and journal tools for interacting with students and encouraging them to engage with the content
- A powerful, interactive grade center and assessment tools that enable instructors to record and assess students’ work in a variety of ways