Archive Your Autumn Courses! Autumn Quarter 2010 Blackboard courses will be disabled on the morning of Monday, February 14, 2011. We advise all faculty to archive and save your Autumn classes prior to Monday morning. View “How to Archive Your Blackboard Course Shell” Video Tutorial Have you completed the Blackboard 9.1 [More...]

Snapshot Failed Due a CSCC network-related issue, the Blackboard 9.1 snapshot failed to run properly this morning and as a result all of the Pilot courses were disabled from 7:35 AM until about 8:20 AM. Dwight is still working on finding and correcting the source of the problem. In the meantime, I re-created [More...]

1. Tuesday's "fixes" broke Securexam We have discovered that a change made in Blackboard 9.1 on Tuesday has affected Securexam tests in Blackboard 9.1 that are displayed one question at a time. Students [More...]

1. Submitting an In Progress Attempt Works Again, but... We have installed a patch to which now allows you to submit an In Progress test attempt. However, there still are some issues with viewing and clearing these In Progress attempts. Here's a best practice flow for now: To View the In Progress Attempt: Open [More...]

There are two names in the Grade Center column: Column name and Grade Center Display Name.  In SP 2, the Grade Center Display Name was only visible to the instructor.  In SP 3, it is visible to the students as well. Here is a video demonstration: http://screencast.com/t/pdiGyvbYL9s0 This has been reported [More...]

Apparently, you cannot tag more than 20 discussion board posts at a time.  If you tag 21 or more, then you get a Not Implemented error; the tag appears to be applied to the post, but it actually is not "saved" (or "implemented" I guess). Here is video demonstration: [More...]

News: Spring 2011 courses have been created in Blackboard 9.1. If you are ready to begin working on preparing for Spring, you must go through training. Developmental Shells will be moved into Blackboard 9.1 by request once you have completed the BB9 050 Transition Course. Training: You can view the current [More...]

Online Services Outage We have been informed that IT will be performing scheduled maintenance on all Columbus State online services this weekend. We have confirmed with them that the ability to log in to Blackboard will be affected by this outage. The online services may be unavailable during the time [More...]

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

Students Double-Clicking This one is not new, but students who double-click when they are in an assessment may receive an Access Denied error. Please remind your students to be patient and not double-click when submitting or saving. Also, let then know that if they receive the Access Denied error, they should be [More...]