What special considerations are necessary if a course is offered in Blackboard for both credit and non-credit students?
Non-credit students are not automatically enrolled in Blackboard courses as they are not part of the Registration and Records’ student enrollment information. Faculty in charge of credit/non-credit courses must manually enroll non-credit students (using either their existing Z-IDs, if those students are also taking a course for credit, or temporary Blackboard affiliate AccountIDs). An affiliate AccountID is a Novell AccountID which is generated for someone who has an affiliation with NIU but does not fit into the usual classification of a faculty, staff or student. It is only meant to provide access to Blackboard courses and/or communities. Associated E-mail accounts are not generated for a Blackboard affiliate AccountID. The Blackboard community leader or course Faculty Member can fill out the online Computer Access Request form at http://www.its.niu.edu/its/apps/car/ to request Novell AccountIDs for non-NIU participants. After non-credit students are manually enrolled in the course a
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