Blackboard is UND's Learning Management System connecting students, faculty and staff both inside and outside of the classroom. It is used for courses, organizations, committees, departments and groups.
This article contains availability dates for students and instructors, and information for students who would like to request continued access.
Blackboard Help Center information on Blackboard Learn Original Course View
If a user is unable to log in to their Blackboard account, or if their course is not listed on the Bb Courses page, please see this article for troubleshooting steps.
The default email address used in Blackboard is your campus email address as listed in Campus Connection (students) or business email in HRMS (faculty/staff).
How to copy content from a previous semester's course into your new Blackboard Ultra course. Instructors may select individual items, or move the entire course's content at once (Ultra-to-Ultra only).
These step-by-step instructions will show you how to locate and open your course's Blackboard site.
Learn more about UND's new, redesigned Learning Management System, Blackboard Learn Ultra.
Instructions for students and instructors: How to access the Course page and navigate to your courses in Blackboard, view information about your courses, search and filter courses by term and course role, and customize your view of the Course page using the settings.
An overview the the process that instructors must follow to use Respondus Exam Authoring tool with Blackboard Ultra course sites.
This article contains information for students on using the Respondus LockDown browser. Respondus LockDown Browser is a custom web browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard; test-takers are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications. When an assessment is started, students are locked into it until they submit for grading. It is compatible with Mac and Windows.
Instructors can use the SafeAssign service to check submitted assignments for originality. SafeAssign compares your submitted assignments against a set of academic papers to identify areas of overlap between the submitted assignment and existing works.
If you find that your TurningPoint clicker is not syncing with your Blackboard course, you have probably set the account up using @NDUS.edu instead of @UND.edu.
Audience response systems (clickers) allow students in the classroom to instantly provide feedback, answer questions, and vote. TurningPoint is the standard adopted by the University of North Dakota.
The latest versions of Microsoft Edge offer the ability to open office files in the browser using Microsoft's Office.com. When this option is enabled, attempting to open Office documents from Blackboard may result in an HTTP 404 error, or the Word online application opens but displays the message "Sorry, there was a problem and we can't open this document. If this happens again, try opening the Document in Microsoft Word"
For students submitting a SafeAssign-enabled assignment: This article explains how you can view your submission's SafeAssign Originality report (option available only if enabled by the instructor).
Student population into a Blackboard course after enrolling through Campus Connection is not an instantaneous process. Batch enrollments are processed roughly every two hours between 6am and 6pm, Central Time, and can take about an hour to complete. Processing times may vary during high enrollment windows.
The timing of Blackboard access and course access may be different for Enroll Anytime (independent study) and non-credit courses as well as certain certificate programs.