course management system

Northwestern falls short of Canvas transition goal

March 31, 2015

Northwestern fell short of its goal to transition 75 percent of classes from Blackboard to Canvas by the end of Winter Quarter, but still hopes to have 90 to 100 percent of courses on Canvas by the end...

Northwestern profs pilot potential Blackboard replacement

November 5, 2013

Northwestern has established a program piloting potential replacements for Blackboard, its course management system since 1999. In Fall 2012, NU’s Education Technology Advisory Committee discussed...

Botched Blackboard upgrade leads to inadvertent emails

June 25, 2013

Students' inboxes were filled Monday with email notifications from Blackboard after a routine update to the course management system was bungled. The unexpected messages told students about updated...

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