Northeastern’s Blackboard learning management system will retire on June 30, 2021.
Faculty and students are encouraged to log in to northeastern.blackboard.com prior to June 30, 2021, to review their courses on Blackboard and download any content, assignments, submissions, or other information they would like.
Though Blackboard will no longer be accessible, instructors will be able to request course records on an ongoing basis.
Students can request a student submission package at any time before or after Blackboard’s retirement. This package contains assignment submissions submitted to native Blackboard tools. Note that assignments submitted to third-party integrations (like TurnItIn) will not be available after Blackboard retirement.
This page offers two approaches to learn about Blackboard. The first lists several key tutorials to get you up to speed on using Blackboard efficiently in a wide variety of ways using various tools within Blackboard. The second path is to find resources on the specific tool you would like to learn more about.
As a learning management system, Blackboard has a wide variety of functions. However, no general use tool will be optimized for every teaching and learning activity. As a result, Northeastern provides a variety of teaching and learning tools integrated into Blackboard. Click to read more about these tools.
Blackboard, Northeastern’s online learning management system (LMS), enhances basic teaching tasks like posting content, grading, and creating assessments.
Blackboard Collaborate Ultra: A web conferencing tool with video, audio, chat, whiteboards and screen sharing.