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Faculty and Staff may sponsor special BlueNet accounts for these purposes: Vendors, Volunteers, Unpaid employees - people in this category are doing university-related work, but are not in our...

25 Jul, 2025 Comments: 0

Microsoft Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA or Two Factor/2-Step Authentication)

Multi-Factor Authenication (MFA), also known as 2-Step or Two Factor Authentication, is a Microsoft feature which allows you to better protect your account by requiring an additional step (after your...

25 Jul, 2025 Comments: 0

Microsoft Bookings

Microsoft Bookings is a scheduling application that is now included as part of faculty/staff Office 365 accounts. Bookings can be used for academic advising and other individual...

25 Jul, 2025 Comments: 0

Email Listserv for Faculty & Staff

The University Senate listserv is available for the purpose of facilitating communication among faculty and staff. Only CCSU email addresses can subscribe to the listserv. When an email is addressed...

25 Jul, 2025 Comments: 0

Email - Students

All students are automatically given a Central Microsoft 365 account. Your Central email address is assigned to you during your application process. It is your official University email address. The...

25 Jul, 2025 Comments: 0

Email - Faculty & Staff

All faculty and staff with a BlueNet Account are automatically given a CCSU email/Office 365 account with a storage quota of 50 gigabyte (GB). Your CCSU email address is selected when activating a...

25 Jul, 2025 Comments: 0

CTI Workshops

We are excited to introduce a new way to sign up for Blackboard workshops through Microsoft Bookings! This method will also be used for various other workshops including Kaltura, Honorlock, and more....

23 Jul, 2025 Comments: 0

FeedbackFruits

What is FeedbackFruits? FeedbackFruits is a robust assessment and feedback tool suite that can facilitate individual or group oriented student-to-student, student-to-content, and...

7 Jul, 2025

Honorlock for Faculty (Ultra)

These documents contain Blackboard Ultra specific information regarding Honorlock. Honorlock Faculty Guide This step by step guide will show you how to add Honorlock to your course. View...

7 Jul, 2025

CoursEval

This tool is used to provide online student opinion surveys in replace of traditional paper/Scantron surveys. CoursEval is designed to provide statistical data to support faculty performance review...

7 Jul, 2025 Comments: 0

Digital Accessibility

Accessibility Tools Overview To help faculty learn how to make their course materials more accessible to students, we have created a short video covering the accessibility tools available in...

2 Jul, 2025

Digital Fax Service (XM Faxing)

XM Faxing is a digital fax service that allows you to send and receive fax documents electronically. All fax numbers on campus are set up for this service. If your department is one that handles...

26 Jun, 2025 Comments: 0

Managing your Content in Blackboard Ultra

Ultra Templates When you first open your course, it will be empty. It is suggested that first time Blackboard users import one of the CCSU created pre-made course templates. You can modify it as...

25 Jun, 2025

Blackboard Ultra Transition

Blackboard Ultra Transition Program, Spring 2025 - Spring 2026 The transition plan provides faculty with an opportunity to explore the modernized Ultra Course View, featuring an intuitive...

24 Jun, 2025

Book Publishers

This section provides a list of the existing book publisher links within Blackboard. Our method for pairing your McGraw Hill Connect & Cengage course to your Blackboard shell has been recently...

23 Jun, 2025

Proctoring and Identity Management

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20 May, 2025

Proctoring and Identity Management

Honorlock is a remote proctoring service that creates a fair testing environment for all students by protecting exams and academic integrity. Honorlock’s remote proctoring services works directly...

20 May, 2025

Qualtrics Online Survey Platform

The university has a site license for the Qualtrics online survey platform. Qualtrics is a robust survey and research tool, allowing you to create and distribute surveys and perform advanced...

7 May, 2025 Comments: 0

Student Loaner Laptops - CARES

As of April 2025, the student loaner laptop program has been paused. Computers for student use are available on every floor of the Library, visit Elihu Burritt Library Homepage - Central Connecticut...

28 Apr, 2025 Comments: 0

FACULTY NEW TO BLACKBOARD? START HERE!

Blackboard Learn is an application used to facilitate teaching online. It allows you to post announcements, assignments, create tests, and more. We suggest looking at Blackboard’s official Getting...

22 Apr, 2025

About Blackboard

Blackboard (Bb) is a CCSU's learning management system. Blackboard provides an integrated set of tools for developing interactive web-based course materials. The system can be used to teach classes...

22 Apr, 2025

Course Removal Process

Process for Course Shell Retention on Blackboard Learn, Central’s Learning Management System (LMS) The CTI has collaborated with the Information Technology Committee to define the length of time...

22 Apr, 2025

Webex - Telephone System and Online Meetings

Getting Started On August 16th, 2024, Central transitioned to the Webex Calling phone system. The Webex application was automatically updated on all faculty and staff computers; it is installed...

7 Apr, 2025 Comments: 0

Wolfram Mathematica Software

Wolfram Mathematica is a symbolic mathematical computation program, sometimes called a computer algebra program, used in many scientific, engineering, mathematical, and computing fields. How to...

13 Jan, 2025 Comments: 0