Busy developing your Semester courses? Let us create some course banners for you! In Instructional Technologies and Distance Learning we have staff who are experts at making course banners who would be happy to create customized banners [More...]

In the last couple of days, we have noticed that occasionally uploaded documents - including assignment submissions, discussion board attachments, and returned Grade Center feedback - have been uploading at an abysmal rate.  This seems to happen most frequently when the user is attempting to upload more than one file at [More...]

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

Time to Archive Your Autumn Courses! Autumn Quarter 2011 Blackboard courses will be disabled on the morning of Monday, February 20th, 2012. We advise all faculty to archive and save your Autumn classes prior to Monday [More...]

From Blackboard: McGraw-Hill Higher Education will be performing system maintenance this weekend and the system will be unavailable.  The outage will occur from January 21, 2012 12:01 AM EST to January 21, 2012 11:59 PM EST.Required Action: Non-hosted Clients – None Hosted Clients – None If you encounter any issues after the maintenance, please log [More...]

The Oracle database whchs drives Blackboard became overwhelmed around 3:10 PM and shut down. Services were resumed at 4:01 PM. [More...]

We experienced a database disconnection today on Web App 1, Web App 3, and Web App 5 which looked like this: HTTP Status 500 type Exception report message description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request. exception java.lang.RuntimeException: blackboard.persist.PersistenceException: Error running query: Listener refused the connection with the following error: ORA-12519, [More...]

UC just finished installing two new building blocks which add new modules to the portal.  So now, in addition to having modules for: My Developmental Shells - a list of only developmental shells My Current Courses - a list of courses current running ... we now have modules for... My Completed Courses - a list [More...]

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

Beware! The course reaper is on the prowl. Your Summer courses will vanish before your very eyes. Archive Your Summer Courses! Summer Quarter 2011 Blackboard courses will be disabled on the morning of Monday, October 31, 2011. We advise all faculty to archive and save your Summer classes prior to Monday morning. This knowledge [More...]