Change of URL for Blackboard 7

Accessing Blackboard 7

Beginning today, Thursday, December 20, when you click on My Nova on the NOVA homepage, you will access Blackboard 7. You will notice a new header for this version. If you use http://learn.vccs.edu to access Blackboard, you will now access Blackboard 7 at that address.

If you want access to your Blackboard 6 courses, you will access them at http://bb6.vccs.edu If you cannot access the URL, be sure to close your browser, open it again, retype the URL (be sure that NO www is in the URL), and hit enter. The same username and password work in both Bb6 and Bb7.

Within the next two weeks, all FA 07 Bb 6 courses will be migrated to Bb 7 along with your students and grades. This will allow students to continue to complete any incomplete FA 07 courses on the new Blackboard 7 servers.

Remember that SP 08 Blackboard 7 shells have already been created so you can export/import materials from previous courses into your SP 08 Bb7 shells if you want to do so now.

Also, note that year-old Blackboard courses are automatically archived and deleted by the Virginia Community College System at the end of every semester. So Fall 06 Bb courses are being deleted by default now by not being migrated to the Bb7 servers.