MxCC Distance Learning

To MxCC Fall 2025 Online Students,

Greetings and welcome!

This message is intended for students who have registered for MxCC’s Fall 2025 online courses or courses with online components (instructional methods: ONLN, OLCR, HYBR or LRON). You now have access to your courses on Blackboard with a starting date of Wednesday August 27th. For late-start courses, your Blackboard courses will become available within 7 days before a course begins.

Accessing Your Courses and Orientation

To access your courses, please log in via my.ctstate.edu using your NetID ([email protected]) and password. Once you are in my.ctstate.edu, click on Blackboard and then Courses page. Seven days before your course starts, you will see the course site. But detailed course information may not be available on the site until the first day.

Before your course’s first day, we kindly ask you to visit our Distance Learning web site at https://library.ctstate.edu/middlesex/distancelearning/home and click on the Getting Started link on the left panel (https://library.ctstate.edu/middlesex/distancelearning/gettingstarted). Follow the step-by-step instructions regarding the essential tasks you MUST complete before engaging in your class.

For course preparation, you are recommended to go through the first three steps of the asynchronous online orientation: https://library.ctstate.edu/middlesex/distancelearning/orientation. Additionally, if you’re registered for LRON courses, you will need to complete additional steps to prepare for class participation at https://library.ctstate.edu/middlesex/distancelearning/lron.

Live Virtual Training

Starting Thursday August21st, we will offer live real-time “technology platforms” training and orientations. These sessions aim to help students become familiar with the online learning technology interface, understand course tools on Blackboard (such as discussions, tests, email, assignments, etc.) and gather success tips. We strongly recommend first-time online students attend one of the live real-time technology training and orientation sessions. These sessions will be held virtually via WebEx. The schedule is posted at https://library.ctstate.edu/middlesex/distancelearning/realtimeorientation. No seat registration is needed. The access link will become active five minutes before each session. Please log on 5 minutes before a session starts, click on the access link, enter your full name and college email, and then click on "Join Meeting".

Resolving any technological difficulties and becoming proficient with online technology are your responsibilities. All MxCC students are enrolled in a Blackboard course titled “MxCC_Virtual_Campus”, which contains tutorials for acquiring essential online learning skills. We advise you to go through the necessary technology and Blackboard instructions before your classes commence. The technology instructions and tutorials used in LRON courses are also available at https://library.ctstate.edu/middlesex/distancelearning/lron.

Special Notes

For students registered in FULLY online courses (ONLN), there are no campus meeting requirements, and no mandatory scheduled class times. All course assignments will be completed online asynchronously.
For students registered in online courses with campus requirements (OLCR), your professor will inform you of any special campus meeting requirements.
Students registered in live remove online courses (LRON) are expected to attend the class virtually at a scheduled time via a web conferencing system. Your professor will inform you of the conferencing technology to use and how to access your class.
Students registered in hybrid courses (HYBR), must attend all on-campus meetings specified on your course syllabus to fulfill hybrid course requirements.

We wish you a successful semester!

Best Regards,

MxCC Distance Learning
Chapman 701B/C
CT State Community College Middlesex
100 Training Hill Road
Middletown, CT 06457
[email protected]
https://library.ctstate.edu/middlesex/distancelearning/home
(860) 343-5756
(Mon-Fri, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm)
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Phone: 860 – 723 – 0221
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