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NIU faculty you can now use the Blackboard Faculty Tools (BFT) to combine one or more course sections into a master course in Blackboard. By combining enrollments of related or cross-listed courses, you will save time by managing only one course in Blackboard.
The new master course functionality, which had been previously available only by request, [...]

Early Warning System Rules
The Early Warning System is a Blackboard tool that can be used to monitor student progress in a course and alert faculty to possible performance problems among students. The tool can also be used to communicate those warnings to students themselves to let them know how their performance is being measured. Notification [...]

Upcoming MyNIU-Entering Final Grades Open Labs faculty sessions:

May 4, 2009 from 1:00 until 4:00 in Founders Library 297
May 5, 2009 from 8:30 until 11:30 in Founders Library 297

These sessions are come and go – come for 5 minutes or stay for longer to learn about entering final grades into MyNIU. The ERP [...]

Teaching Effectiveness Institute: Fundamental Principles of Effective Instruction will be offered on Thursday, August 13, 2009 from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. Day one of the institute is geared toward an audience who is new to teaching and to those wanting to refresh their knowledge about teaching fundamentals.
Teaching Effectiveness Institute: “Raising the Bar: [...]

Blackboard is the course management system used campus-wide at NIU that allows faculty to post materials, deliver tests and surveys, hold online discussion and perform many other course-related functions. In December 2008 Blackboard was upgraded from version 7.1 to 7.3. This upgrade includes some subtle new user features and system capabilities that previously have not [...]