Attention: Changes to Blackboard Vista
Blackboard Vista has been successfully re-configured to use your Windows username and password to log in.
You can no longer use your WestConnduit username and six-digit PIN for Blackboard Vista.
This affects all students and faculty using Blackboard Vista. Please note, after this change, if you enter your Windows password incorrectly four times in a row, it will lock your account for fifteen minutes. For faculty and staff, this will also lock your email for fifteen minutes.
Help us spread the word. One less password to remember with Blackboard Vista.
E-Learning at WestConn
For the past several years, WestConn has been using WebCT (a system-wide initiative) as its E-Learning course management system. It allows faculty to supplement their on-ground courses with online components, or to use for fully online courses.
Westconn currently uses Blackboard Vista 8.
Virtual Course Environment
Blackboard Vista is an academic enterprise system that supports online learning. The tools and components built into Vista combine to support students, course designers, administrators and instructors with their online instructional activities. With a standard Web browser, students and instructors can login from anywhere in the world to access their class materials and interact with one another.
Blackboard Vista includes a virtual course environment built to support different teaching styles and learning needs. Blackboard Vista is designed to provide the tools for faculty to prepare, deliver, and manage their courses. Institutions of all sizes — even the largest educational systems or consortia — can reliably scale their e-learning programs, create powerful efficiencies enterprise-wide, and support the growing demands of all academic constituents.
Faculty:
To request a Blackboard Vista course section, e-mail Request University Computing or complete the Blackboard Vista Section Request Form.
- To request authorization for a totally online course, click on online education at WestConn.
- To request training, or to contact the Blackboard Vista Support Team, e-mail UC Trainers or complete the Blackboard Vista Support Form.
We look forward to working with you.
