In preparation for the Blackboard 7.3 to Blackboard 9.1 migration, we had created approximately 30 transition shells for more than 800  faculty to use to get acclimated to the new environment.  The usefulness of these shells has passed.  They will be archived and deleted from the system today.  If anyone created [More...]

You've asked. We've heard! Transition to Blackboard 9.1 Grade Center training is now online. There are many new Grade Center features. Below are just a few of them: You can now email students directly from Grade Center Enter grades directly into the grade table Freeze columns (like Student Names) so they [More...]

Spring Quarter begins in less than 5 weeks. Are you ready for Blackboard 9.1? If you are one of the more than 500 faculty who have completed Blackboard 9.1 Transition training, then you are well on your way! Make sure you request to move your shells and copy materials [More...]

Courses: 89 Sections: 139 Unique Faculty: 94 (including labs and clinicals) Faculty Enrollments: 198 Unique Students: 3,308 Student Enrollments: 3,714   [More...]

Blackboard Downtime Both Blackboard 9.1 and Blackboard 7.3 will be unavailable on Tuesday, December 28 between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM. UC is performing some server maintenance and adding new hardware to increase our storage space and add stability to the overall system. They are expecting both systems to be [More...]

Winter 2011 Pilot Welcome New Pilot Participants! We currently have 38 new (and returning) pilot participants for Winter Quarter 2011. They are: Susan Accetturo - Nursing Hakim Adjoua - Justice and Safety Cheryl Allaire - Modern Languages Beth Barnett - Developmental Education Deb Bertsch - English Deborah Brown - Allied Health Jill Cadotte - Business Natalia Daw - Allied Health Amy DiBlasi [More...]

Student Testing Issues We are still having some issues with students receiving errors ("Access Denied," "An error has occurred") when taking tests. The bulk of the problems seems to lie in impatient students. If your students are having errors while testing please: Remind them to click ONCE Be patient Wait for the [More...]

Blackboard 9.1 Downtime Scheduled In anticipation for our full-campus conversion, we will be upgrading our database from test to full production. This will allow us to begin moving developmental shells into Blackboard 9.1 and expand our Pilot for Winter 2011. This process does involve downtime. We have scheduled the downtime for Wednesday, [More...]

Autumn Quarter Statistics: As of this morning: Faculty: 29 Courses: 49 Sections: 77 Student Enrollments: 2,780 Unique Students: 2,301 List of faculty participating in the Autumn 2010 Pilot: Greg Burlile Mary Ann Canter Harry Caruso Carrie Casillas Lisa Cerrato Carmen Daniels Susan Donohue Debra Dyer Shawn Ferguson Patrick Fiorelli Judy Gentry Phyllis Hardy Kevin James Carolyn Kaufman Elizabeth Kelley Leslie King Luis Latoja [More...]

I've had enough participants express a desire to move to Blackboard 9.1 Service Pack 2 that I don't feel we need a formal vote. To reiterate, Service Pack 2 does not include any substantial interface/feature enhancements - it is mostly bug fixes. Here are some of the issues that we were [More...]