{"id":123,"date":"2024-07-26T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/widowprod.rccc.edu\/distance\/?page_id=123"},"modified":"2026-07-21T16:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:56:27","slug":"blackboard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rccc.edu\/elearning\/blackboard\/","title":{"rendered":"About Blackboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.18.0&#8243; transparent_background=&#8221;off&#8221; make_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; use_custom_width=&#8221;off&#8221; width_unit=&#8221;off&#8221; custom_width_px=&#8221;1080px&#8221; custom_width_percent=&#8221;80%&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_fullwidth_slider show_arrows=&#8221;off&#8221; show_pagination=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; header_level=&#8221;h1&#8243; header_font_size=&#8221;46px&#8221; body_font=&#8221;|600|||||||&#8221; body_font_size=&#8221;18px&#8221; 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Effective Fall 2026, it is being used by certain Corporate and Continuing Education (non-credit) online classes and by Curriculum (for-credit) students from Spring 2026 who are completing their Academic Probation course. \u00a0All Curriculum courses are using the new LMS, Canvas.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Logging Into College Systems&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.7&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; global_module=&#8221;2194&#8243; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>Logging Into College Systems:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Student User ID &#8211;<\/strong> last name\u00a0&#8211; up to 10 characters.first initial.last 5 digits of Student ID<\/p>\n<p><strong>For example: <\/strong>Shawn Christopherson with Student ID #0087654 would have the user ID: <strong>christophe.s.87654. <\/strong>You will log in to Blackboard with your email address that includes the student user ID @student.rccc.edu (example: christophe.s.87654@student.rccc.edu).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Password &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>You\u2019ll have <strong>one<\/strong> password. 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