All online classes and some on-ground classes at Middlesex Community College use Blackboard Vista. Each semester, all credit courses are given a Blackboard Vista course site to ehance teaching and learning. Upon registration, students are automatically enrolled into that Blackboard course site. As soon as the instructor loggs on to the Blackboard Vista cousre site once, the site is activated for students.



You log in to Blackboard Vista with exactly the same procedure as students.

1. Open a web browser.
2. Go to my.commnet.edu.
3. Enter your NetID and password, click Login.

NetID : BannerID@mxcc.commet.edu* Click here for more information about a faculty/staff NetID.

Password: The same password to log on to a campus computer at any of 12 Connecticut community colleges or check college email via Outlook Web Access at www.mail.commnet.edu.

If you have never logged on to a campus computer or check college email from off-campus, use the initial password, which is combination of your first 3 letters of birth month (capitalize the first letter), & (shift+7), and last four digits of your Social Security Number.

For example, if you were born in April and the last four digits of your social security number are 4575, then your initial password is Apr&4575 (case sensitive).

After you logon with the initial password, you will be prompted to change to a new password.  The new password MUST have 8 or more characters and satisfy 3 of the 4 rules as follows:

• Upper case
• Lower case
• Numbers
• Special character
  

One example of a new password is Flower07 (case sensitive). Remember; do not use your name or birthday in the new password.

Click here for more information about NetID and password.
Trouble logging on? Click here for additional help information.

Once you are in myCommNet, click Blackboard Vista icon at upper right. Click a semester link (such as Fall 2008). Click your course name. To go to another course, click My Blackboard (upper-right) and click the course name.

*Note1: The Blackboard Vista server is off line from 6:00am to 10:00am every Thursday for weekly maintenance. Click here for Blackboard Vista Alerts.

4. Reset Password
IT Service, Room 304, Wheaton, (860) 343 - 5711, Middletown Campus
Front Desk (4th floor) in Meriden Center, (203) 238 - 6202
*Photo ID is needed for PIN reset.

5. Change Password
Logon to my.commnet.edu, click on Change Password (top-middle).