Snapshot failed and disabled all of the Pilot courses once again. Courses, students, and faculty were reenabled by 8:20 AM. Automated pull of the snapshot has been temporarily disabled until further notice. [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...]

Snapshot failed again and disabled all of the Pilot courses once again.  Courses, students, and faculty were reenabled by 8:06 AM. [More...]

We are Seeking Course Copying Requests! Using Blackboard? Why re-upload everything for Spring in Blackboard 9.1 when we can copy it for you from Winter in Blackboard 7.3? Go to http://teaching.cscc.edu/Support/request.asp to request that your Winter Quarter Blackboard content be copied to your Spring Quarter Blackboard courses. Have you completed [More...]

Snapshot failed (again) this morning From 7:35 AM until 8:04 AM, Winter 2011 courses, instructors, and students were disabled in Blackboard 9.1 only. Dwight in IT tells me that the Nova server failed, causing the data job to just stop before it had loaded the Pilot courses - lucky you. I had [More...]

On March 4 at 6:30 AM, Blackboard 9.1 may be unavailable for 5 minutes. UC will be conducting a test to try and pinpoint the issues that our Blackboard 9.1 system is having when the load balancers fail over. They are going to hook up a bunch of diagnostic equipment [More...]

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 10:37 AM. And then due to a second IT error, students did not have access until about 10:50 AM. Dwight and [More...]