Academic Resources

Computer Labs
Computer classrooms available for use by the University community for academic and Northwestern business purposes.

Course Management System (Blackboard)
NU's Blackboard based Course Management System is used by Northwestern faculty to help support student online learning.

• NUBlog is exclusively available through the Course Management System.
• NUWiki is a new feature that is being tested this year in the Course Management System.
  

Depot
Depot is a web-based tool that allows Northwestern faculty and their students to upload, store, share, or conveniently access files.

Gartner Research

Media Services

NUAMPS (Northwestern University Advanced Media Production Studio) is a professional production team dedicated to the service and advancement of multimedia applications in teaching and research.

NUIT Events and Presentations
NUIT hosts presentations and events open to the University community. These diverse presentations are directed to faculty, staff, and students with varying degrees of technical expertise and experience.

Smart Classrooms
These are technology-enhanced classrooms for teaching activities at Northwestern.

Social Sciences Computing Cluster (SSCC)
The SSCC provides an advanced computational capability, a rich suite of statistical software applications, and a centrally managed data storage service — all to support the research activities of Northwestern social scientists.

Student Response Systems (SRS)
SRS refers to an integrated hardware and software system that allows instructors to pose questions and gather students' responses during a lecture.

Visualization Lab
The visualization facility has been created both for faculty use and to demonstrate low cost capabilities for departments with significant visualization needs. Our laboratory can be used for research or a component of education.