Upgrade Dates: 5/8 – 5/10 Blackboard will be unavailable from Monday, May 8th at 8:00am to Wednesday, May 10th at 5:00pm for scheduled maintenance. Blackboard Support Team New Features (faculty features) Drag and Drop – When instructors create content items, assignments, and web links, they can drag files from their computers to the “hot spot” in the Attach Files area. Students […]
» Read more4/17/2017 Every year we purge old Blackboard courses. We do so to stay within our storage goals and business policy of keeping only two years of Blackboard sites in our production system. In a few short weeks, we will be purging all 2013/2014/2015 course sites.. The purge date is May 7th, 2017. To save any courses from 2013,2014,2015, please fill out […]
» Read moreUpgrade Dates: 5/8 – 5/10 During this upgrade Bb will not be available. New Features Drag and Drop – When instructors create content items, assignments, and web links, they can drag files from their computers to the “hot spot” in the Attach Files area. Students can also drag files to upload when they submit assignments. Submission Receipts – instructors can keep track […]
» Read moreBlackboard Maintenance Downtime on 2/12/17 6:05pm 2/12/17 Downtime Information. Planned downtime window was from 8am – noon. Blackboard was down until 940pm. The 9hrs and 40min timeframe was unexpected and not planned. Blackboard is still unavailable due to issues with the update this morning. Technicians are working with support to resolve as soon as possible. To check the authenticity of […]
» Read moreECU will be putting a fix in place for this issue on 2/12/17. We are currently testing the fix on our developmental server. Until the 12th, please use this workaround. Discussion Board Access Denied Error Message. This happens when discussion forums are no longer available, either by selecting No for availability or by choosing date/time settings during the forum setup. […]
» Read moreLockDown Browser for Windows version 2.0.1.07 has been available for new installations or by using “Check for Update” since December 1, 2016. Beginning Friday January 6, 2017, this update will be pushed to student installations of LockDown Browser using the Auto Update feature. The update will occur during the startup of LockDown Browser.
» Read morePrepping for Spring 2017 Semester Spring course shells are now available. Remember, any spring Blackboard shell and course ID ends in the number 201730 (2017 = year, 30 = spring semester). COURSE AVAILABILITY: How do I make my course available to students? Control Panel > Customization > Properties > Set Availability > Yes. (Please make your Fall 2016 courses unavailable, […]
» Read moreWe are currently seeing a delay in the return of SafeAssign reports through Blackboard. Blackboard Learn acknowledges a 5-7 hour delay in returning SafeAssign reports. We will send an update when the SafeAssign building block is working as expected. We apologize for the inconvenience.
» Read moreThanks to messages by faculty to our Blackboard Team, we were able to research and replicate a couple of issues. If you do not use the Discussion Board, do not give online tests or do not give online tests with question types needing manual grading (e.g., essay or short answer), this post is not for you. We did contact Blackboard […]
» Read moreFall 2016 For Instructors: Respondus LockDown Browser (LDB) Essentials LockDown Browser (LDB) is a product of Respondus, and is a secure browser designed to cut down on cheating when students are taking tests online. When using the browser (LDB), students cannot print screen, access email, search the web, open new tabs, etc. New to LDB as of Fall 2016, is a […]
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