Getting Started with Your Online Courses

Are you ready to pursue your education online? Here at UMass Lowell, we have been offering our traditional academic programs online to students all over the world since 1996. Our high-quality online courses and programs have earned national recognition and awards for innovation, faculty development and online teaching.

We use the Blackboard learning environment to deliver our online, blended, and "web-enhanced" courses. Learn how to download the Blackboard Mobile App.

Taking an online course is as easy as...

1. Choose Your Course and Register

• Online Course Search
• Registering for Courses

2. Access Your UMass Lowell Student Email and Log Into Your Course

• Accessing Your UMass Lowell Student Email and SiS Student Record
• Logging Into Your Course:

  Faculty and students use their UMass Lowell email address as their username and their email password to log into their online courses at https://uml.umassonline.net.

  Note: You will not be able to log into your online courses until the first day of the semester.

3. Prepare for Class

• Buy Your Books Online
• Computer Account Information
• Review the Technical Requirements and the Tutorials & Software Downloads for any supplemental information that may be helpful.