If you are one of the 252 individuals who use Respondus or Studymate, please check your email boxes for an email entitled "2011-2012 Studymate and Respondus License Key." This email contains the new license key which goes into effect on Monday, August 1, 2011. This new license key will [More...]

A few weeks ago, Respondus released updates for both Respondus and Studymate so the software would work with Blackboard 9.1 Service Pack 5.  On Wednesday, June 15, 2011, we upgraded to Blackboard 9.1 Service Pack 5 so you will need to install these updates in order to continue using Respondus [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...]

Securexam now works with Blackboard 9.1 in the Testing Center. That's right! A version of Securexam that works with Blackboard 9.1 is now in the Testing Center. If you use the Testing Center for your Blackboard exams, you will once again need to adhere to the Securexam settings: DO NOT use Force Completion [More...]

Our New System I thought I would share some information about our new system. It might be a little technical, but I think it is good to know Our new system is a fully-functioning production system. The "old" system was in a testing environment. Our new system is backed-up nightly. The "old" system was [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...]