Improve your CMS Skills
Faculty Support Services is offering workshops daily through January 18, 2010! If you're a new instructor or would like to learn more about the Course Management System, please sign up to attend a workshop.

NuBlog Announcement
As of January 4, 2010, Faculty Support Services is retiring the NUblog tool. Instructors who are interested in an alternative to NUblog should contact course-management@northwestern.edu and ask about possible participation in our Bboogle Pilot Project.

Bboogle Pilot
Faculty Support Services ran a pilot program in the fall quarter of 2009 designed to facilitate collaboration between instructors and students with the integration of several Google Apps into Blackboard. Thirty instructors were contacted to evaluate Bboogle's ability to allow them to access and control shared Google Docs, Google Calendar, and other Google Apps. If you are interested in learning more about Bboogle, please read the Bboogle Pilot Project.

Timed Tests and IE 8: Use Compatibility Mode
Students using Internet Explorer 8 have identified a problem with taking timed tests an locating the submit button. Before taking a test in Explorer 8, be sure to click the browser button to enter "Compatibility Mode". Instructors, please warn your students to enter Compatibility Mode before they begin the test.

Missing Data in Grade Center
Internet Explorer (IE) and CMS Grade Center have a particular incompatibility problem due to the way that IE caches, or stores, the page in its memory. IE does not always reflect the changes you or a co-instructor may have made to the Grade Center. Learn how to change your settings to avoid this issue. Another alternative would be to use Firefox 2.0 or 3.0.  Both versions are fully compatible with the CMS system.

Course Management System Status Updates
If you would like to check the status of the system, view the CMS Dashboard, which is part of the Capacity & Availability Service of NUIT. It shows a wide range of usage statistics.

TERMS OF USE
Some of the materials on the Course Management System are subject to copyright and may NOT be distributed beyond members enrolled in classes served by this course management system. Students' use of these materials is limited to the term in which a course is taught. This system contains student records that fall under the regulation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).