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...]

There are two potential bugs that we have identified which are the result of the course restores. Under normal circumstances, we probably would never see these issues. 1. Attempts are Reordered Pat had an astute student who noticed this bug. When we performed the course restore, the Date Created on all assessment attempts [More...]

Group Assignments Patch The Group Assignments stored procedure fix was successfully implemented yesterday on schedule. There was no downtime associated with this fix. Archiving / Exporting / Importing / Restoring, et al Frank at UC was able to get all of our broken functions working again yesterday. However he knew (and we knew) that [More...]

Blackboard 9.0 Patch Blackboard announced the discovery and correction of a problem regarding Group Assignments in Blackboard 9.0 that was caused by an errant stored procedure. UC will be replacing the stored procedure this week. It should not require any downtime, but I will keep you posted in case it does. In [More...]

Inability to Log In Yesterday some users were not able to log into Blackboard 7.3 and Blackboard 9.0 from an unknown time until around 1:48 PM. Mary Reiter and the system admins can attest that it was very intermittent until 1:00 PM or so when no one could log into either system. We [More...]

Archiving Courses... ...is not working again. UC is investigating. I will keep you posted. Respondus and Exporting/Importing Exams Respondus is able to connect to Blackboard 9 but is randomly able to extract or upload exams. Sometimes it works; sometimes it does not work. We have found the same inconsistencies with exporting and importing exams [More...]

New Hardware The new Oracle cluster has been built for Blackboard 9, but the build still undergoing an approval process and should be approved for deployment next week. I'll keep you posted on this one. The second web app has been built and Frank is vetting it himself today. He plans on adding [More...]

Blackboard Tip for Faculty: Backing up your Gradebook Routinely downloading your Blackboard gradebook, especially after entering a whole set of grades, is a good way to maintain a backup copy of your gradebook. Why? If you [More...]