"Wildcats"__
• Production LMS: Blackboard Learning System Enterprise License
• Current Version: 7.0
• Additional LMS Products:
• Building Blocks in use:
• Building Blocks developed:
• Campus ERP: PeopleSoft
• Other LMS's Deployed: None
• ASP Hosted: No
• Time Frame for Next Upgrade: Summer 2008 to version 8.0
Northwestern University, with campuses in Evanston and Chicago, currently enrolls approximately 8,000 undergraduate and 6,000
graduate students. We are a Research 1 university organized into 11 schools, including a medical school, law school, management, engineering, music, communication, journalism, education, and liberal arts. We were founded in 1851 at a site 12 miles north of Chicago, which was subsequently incorporated as Evanston, IL, named after John Evans, one of the University's founders.
Insitution Links
Institution: http://www.northwestern.edu
Campus Map: http://www.northwestern.edu/visiting/maps/index.html
Department:
LMS Home Page: http://courses.northwestern.edu/webapps/login/
Help/Training: http://course-management.northwestern.edu/
Online Program:
Statistics
• Institution Categrory: 4-year, graduate
• Term: quarter
• Number of Active Courses per Term: 1600
• Number of Online Courses:
• Number of Faculty: 1600
• Number of Students: 14000
• Group, Organization, Association Memberships: Committee on Institutional Cooperation Learning Technology Group (CIC)
Brian Nielsen
Project Manager
Faculty Initiatives
Evanston, IL 60208
b-nielsen@northwestern.edu
phone: 847.491.2170
James Altman
Course Management System Trainer
Evanston, IL 60208
altman@northwestern.edu
phone: 847.491.4044
Tim King
Assoc. Course Management System Trn.
Evanston, IL 60208
tking@northwestern.edu
847.491.4044