Archive Your Winter Courses! Winter Quarter 2011 Blackboard courses will be disabled on the morning of Monday, May 9, 2011. We advise all faculty to archive and save your Winter classes prior to Monday morning. You will have to go to http://globalcourses.cscc.edu to access your Winter classes. View “How to [More...]

UC finished vetting and loading four new Building Blocks onto our system. These Building Blocks are now available for use. If you experience any problems with these Building Blocks or have any questions, please let us know! The new Building Blocks are: Set Grade Center Due Dates We had version [More...]

Blackboard 9.1 Service Pack 5 was released this morning. It has been declared a "bug pack" in that there are very few new or enhanced features - it is mostly fixing bugs. There are more than 120 on the list of Resolved Issues and we're still awaiting the most [More...]

We had a bit of a domino effect this quarter with Blackboard bugs.  One bug forced us to perform a task a certain way which had a different bug which affected something else. Believe it or not, this happened with multiple items. One of these issues involves images that are in tests.  [More...]

University of Cincy completed the load balancer fail over tests this morning and the fail-over was successful. This means two things: There was no downtime this morning The issues with the load balancer failing-over should be resolved The jury is still out on the improvement to system performance (i.e. speed / bandwidth) but [More...]

On Friday, April 15 from approximately 6:00 AM until 6:30 AM, University of Cincinnati will be conducting a load balancer fail-over test  to determine if a long-standing issue with the load balancer has been fixed.  If the issue is fixed - which is anticipated - then we will not see any downtime.  [More...]

Now is the time to make sure your Blackboard Grade Center is ready! If you use the Blackboard Grade Center, it is highly recommended that you take an online or face-to-face Grade Center training course. For those with prior Gradebook experience we recommend "Transition to Blackboard 9.1 Grade Center." (BB9 060) [More...]

An issue that is becoming more and more common is copying and pasting from Groupwise.  While most of the time this will not present a problem, sometimes the copy picks up some code that can cause issues in Blackboard.  Here is the code I just extracted from an Announcement: <script type="text/javascript" defer>if [More...]

Blackboard released the Service Pack 5 Release Notes and Resolved Issues list today, although SP 5 is still a few weeks away from being released.  Unlike in previous Service Packs, SP 5 has very few enhancements and no new features - which is very good news.  There are some performance improvements, [More...]

Jeremy Porter helped us unearth an issue yesterday related to Assignments when we imported courses from Blackboard 7.3 into Blackboard 9.1 (thanks Jeremy!).  The Issue: In Blackboard 7.3, there was only one attempt allowed for an online Assignment.  In Blackboard 9.1, you can opt for one attempt, multiple attempts, or unlimited attempts.  For [More...]