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NIU Mobile App makes improvements

By Joe Palmer | March 28, 2012

The NIU Mobile App is getting a face lift with some major improvements, including access to the campus Huskie Bus tracker, Huskie Tracks. The revised app hit both the Android and Apple app stores earlier this month. The app is free to download and includes...

Online courses provide tools, difficulties for students

By Felix Sarver | February 8, 2012

Professors who seek to spread their knowledge through online classes may find some obstacles.Though there are various means for college professors to teach online, the courses offered are not necessarily accredited and don't cater to all students' needs.Universities...

NIU offers new online courses, plans to add 42 new degree programs

By Faith Healy | September 12, 2011

When students think about college courses, they may think of a professor standing at a podium lecturing. However, NIU also offers alternative class methods in online courses. While offering online classes is not new to the university, there has been an...

An official NIU app will join the Blackboard Mobile Learn app on the iPhone and other smart phones.

Blackboard app comes to smartphones, university app will follow soon

By Candice Beasley | February 24, 2011

DeKALB | NIU is becoming mobile near you. At the beginning of the spring semester, NIU was the third Illinois university that Blackboard vended a mobile application to. Blackboard Mobile Learn has launched an application for students to access their Blackboard...

Internet outages make it diffifult to be a good student

By Jack Baker | January 25, 2011

On Monday, I tried to do my homework numerous times throughout the day. Unfortunately, as I am sure you all know, the Internet would not cooperate. My browser wouldn't load and I couldn't open Blackboard and pull up the discussion questions I needed to...

Internet problems plague campus through Monday night

By Jessica Sabbah | January 24, 2011

Junior psychology major Lauren Johnson wasn't able to print off her syllabus Monday afternoon because she was unable to connect to the Internet in a campus lab. Like Johnson, some on campus Monday may have noticed Internet connectivity issues. The cause...