Campus LX is BU’s university-wide initiative to strengthen the learning environment that supports teaching and learning across our campuses.

Originally launched to guide BU’s transition to Blackboard Ultra, Campus LX established a modern, shared foundation for BU’s learning management environment. With that transition nearly complete, Campus LX is evolving from a transformation initiative into an ongoing commitment to ensuring that BU fully leverages its core learning ecosystem to support excellent teaching and meaningful student learning.

As teaching practices, student expectations, and educational technologies continue to change, the learning environment must evolve with them. Campus LX brings together faculty, academic leaders, and partners from across BU to identify opportunities for improvement, evaluate new capabilities, and ensure that technology, pedagogy, accessibility, assessment, and emerging tools work together effectively.

A Collaborative University-Wide Effort

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Campus LX brings together expertise from across Boston University, including the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, BU Virtual, Information Services & Technology, faculty, and academic leaders within BU’s schools and colleges.

Through this collaboration, Campus LX helps BU make thoughtful, coordinated decisions about the technologies and capabilities that shape the learning experience—while creating opportunities to share effective practices and innovations across BU.

From Platform Transformation to Continuous Improvement

Blackboard Ultra provides an important foundation, but Campus LX extends beyond the platform itself. This initiative creates a coordinated approach for continuously improving the broader learning experience—considering how faculty teach, how students engage and learn, how courses make effective use of technology, and where new capabilities can add meaningful value. This work is guided by a simple principle: teaching and learning come first. Technology should enable effective educational practices, make the learning experience more accessible and engaging, and help faculty respond to changing student needs and expectations.

Areas of Focus

Learning Platform Excellence

Campus LX guides the continued evolution of Blackboard Ultra and BU’s core learning environment, including the evaluation and adoption of new capabilities, integrations, accessibility tools, learning analytics, and improvements to usability and consistency.

Teaching & Learning Innovation

Campus LX connects the learning environment to evolving approaches to teaching, learning, and assessment. This includes opportunities related to active and participatory learning, assessment redesign, student engagement, AI-enabled teaching, and other emerging practices.

Learning Technology & Emerging Capabilities

New educational technologies and AI capabilities are developing rapidly. Campus LX provides a collaborative framework for evaluating how these tools intersect with BU’s core learning environment and where they can meaningfully strengthen teaching and learning.

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Accessibility & Inclusive Learning

Campus LX supports BU’s commitment to accessible and inclusive learning experiences by advancing the use of tools such as Ally, promoting accessible course design, and identifying opportunities to improve the learning environment for all students.

Continuous Improvement

Faculty and student feedback, usage data, learning analytics, and emerging needs help shape ongoing priorities. Campus LX uses these insights to identify opportunities for improvement and build a roadmap for the continued evolution of BU’s learning ecosystem.

Looking Ahead

The next phase of Campus LX will focus on getting more from the foundation BU has built. Priorities include expanding the effective use of Blackboard capabilities, exploring responsible applications of AI, advancing accessibility, strengthening learning analytics, and identifying scalable approaches that improve teaching and learning. Campus LX helps ensure that BU’s learning environment continues to support excellent teaching and student learning in a rapidly evolving educational landscape.

News & Announcements

Thought Leadership
February 12th, 2026

How a Startup Mindset Inspires Innovation in Higher Education

In this conversation with Higher Education Digest, Vice President and Associate Provost of the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning and BU Virtual Wendy Colby shares her perspectives on the evolving landscape of higher education and the leadership principles that drive her work.

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Technology Tools
February 6th, 2026

BU Transitions to Blackboard Ultra

The Daily Free Press reports on BU's transition from Blackboard Original to the latest platform, Blackboard Ultra, and how the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning is working to support faculty along the way.

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