Rensselaer's RPI LMS (Blackboard) Portal

Fall 2012
Student access to the LMS requires a Troy campus RCS account. Please use this link to request your RCS account information or to contact the LMS Helpdesk.

  • The WebCT name is changing to the RPI Learning Management System (RPI LMS)
  • Do not use Favorities or Bookmarks within your course. You will get strange error messages, when you try to log in. You can Bookmark this page, or http://rpilms.rpi.edu
  • To setup your Browser: Allow pop-ups for the rpi.edu domains, Install Java. Then use the Check Browser link at the top right hand corner on the next page.
  • Java: We recommend that you turn off Java automatic updates, and remove all older versions already installed on your PC. The newest versions of Java, JRE 1.5.0_8 through JRE 1.5.0_11 tends to freeze Blackboard. Therefore, Java JRE version 1.5.0_7 is the current recommended version. Get the PC Sun Java Runtime Environment, from:
    Sun Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0_7
    .
  • Downtime:
    Non-scheduled.

Courses (tentative - You will not be able to log on until the day of your first meeting of class) :

For online help about the LMS, and access your LMS Courses

Report a RPI LMS Problem


Faculty and Designers Only - Request a LMS Course
Blackboard Course Creation Request Form:

For courses being offered by RPI's Education for Working Professionals (EWP) Distance Education program, faculty are to select "EWP" as the campus location on the form.

EWP Distance Education

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Updated: 2013-01-04, 16:22