Contact Us

ITL-West

1940 West Taylor Street
Room 181 BGRC
West Campus

The ITL-West is located at the ACCC main offices in the Benjamin Goldberg Research Center (BGRC), on the West campus.

ITL-East

Richard J. Daley Library
Room LIB 1-460
East Campus

The ITL-East is located at the Library in room LIB 1-460, on the first floor of the Main Library on the west side of the building.

Telephone — 312.996.9824
Email — blackboard@uic.edu

Request a Site

Please complete the following form to request a new Blackboard course site or to request a re-use/copy of a previous course site. Requests should be submitted at least two (2) weeks before the site is needed to guarantee timely setup. Instructors using Blackboard for the first time need to attend or schedule an introductory faculty training session (see below).

If there are any questions or problems, please email the ITL Blackboard support staff at blackboard@uic.edu.

Required fields are marked with an asterisk: *

Your Name *  
Email *  
Department *  
Phone *  
Course Title *   (e.g. Introduction to Music)
Course rubric and number *   (e.g. MUS101; if not for a regular course make something up)
Class Duration *   semester based or temporary
Term:
From:
Until:
(specify when the class/program will actually run, i.e. when the site should be available to your users)(default for semesters is until one week after finals). You need to request the site again for each new semester!

ongoing (only for sites that are continually in use for teaching or collaboration, or as template sites, not for a College of Medicine/Dentistry year-based course nor for short continuing education programs) Ongoing sites used for actual teaching are discouraged, as they offer no way to separately manage or clean out user data for different subpopulations of users.
Re-use/Copy
of old site *		   No     Yes, of the old course site with SiteID:
(When requesting a site for MUS101 for Fall 2012, you may want to request re-use of the material from mus101.fall.2011 or you can simply paste the entire course name as you see it listed in MyBlackboard page).

5-digit CRN course
number(s) *

  



How do I find my CRN (Class Schedule Information)? Click here to locate your CRN by browsing to the appropriate semester and then locating your class through your schedule of classes. (Your CRN number is the 5 digit number on the left.)

Note: Extra boxes are for additional call numbers (if needed). For lecture/discussion combinations, just list the lecture.
Note: if this is a program not using call numbers please enter 99999 in the first field.
Note: we need the call numbers to add your students, so please make an effort to specify the correct call number(s) for the correct term.

Main Instructor *  
(name and NetID, e.g. John Doe, jdoe1)
Other Instructors  
(names and NetIDs)
If you need instructor-access for yourself, don't forget to list yourself here or as main instructor!
TAs  
(names and NetIDs)

Comments

  
In particular, indicate here if you are supplying multiple call numbers to get multiple independent sites, otherwise they will all be added to the same site.
End-of-term Policy *

Semester-based and temporary course sites will be available until the end date you specified above, normally one week after finals. Then they are hidden from students, but remain on your list (you can override site availability and duration from the control panel, under Settings). Older sites will then be sorted towards the bottom of your course list by prepending a "z" to their name. One year afterwards, the site will be taken offline and thus become inaccessible even to you. Nothing will be deleted from it, however. Its materials can be re-used for future terms with new student info upon your request (via this form).

This does not apply to ongoing course sites.
I understand.

Activate a Blackboard Student Account

A good practice to ensure all functionality of your Blackboard course appears, functions, populates the Grade Center and is deployed correctly is to activate a secondary student Blackboard account. You will have a new login ID "netID.bb" and you will use the same password as your primary ACCC common password (same password you access UIC Webmail etc.). After the account is activated (takes up to 30 minutes) you can then enroll your secondary account into your Blackboard course and test appropriately.


For first-time Blackboard instructors only...

First-time Blackboard instructors should attend an introductory Blackboard faculty training session with the ITL, which typically lasts 60 minutes.

This is to help you be more productive with Blackboard and to avoid a flood of questions later on. If you previously had such an introduction, you do not need it again. However, you are always welcome to stop by for additional training at the ITL-East or ITL-West.

  • ITL-East — Room LIB 1-030, East campus. The ITL-East is located at the Library in room LIB 1-030, on the first floor of the Main Library on the south side of the building in the IDEA commons.
  • ITL-West — Room 181 BGRC, West campus. The ITL-West is located at the ACCC main offices in the Benjamin Goldberg Research Center (BGRC), on the West campus.
  • Hours — All ITL labs are open from 9am - 5pm Monday - Friday