Online courses at Fitchburg State College are offered fully online through Blackboard, our online learning management system. As a student, you access and complete all your work in an online setting with a very user-friendly interface.

The web address for all courses is http://blackboard.fsc.edu. As a student, you are given a username and password to access the courses in which you are enrolled.

One of the greatest advantages of online learning is that you can access the course at whatever times are most convenient for you. How often you access the course depends on you, but we recommend that you stay involved throughout each week of the course.

Typically, there are no set times. This is what we refer to as “asynchronous learning.” You access the course at times that are most convenient for you. However, you will have a schedule to keep so that the course has structure. For example, the assignments and activities might have weekly deadlines. This depends on the instructor’s format for class, and will be clearly identified. Some courses in the nursing program require some “synchronous learning”, and you may have to be at your computer at a particular time of day.