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...]

Have you ever sent an Announcement as an email and your copy had 100 footers at the bottom which said "This is a system notification sent based on your personal settings and should not be replied to. Click here to view and edit your Notification Settings"?  How annoying! On Tuesday, UC applied [More...]

Just a quick note: Cassie and crew at UC made a change to the load balancer this afternoon in an effort to fix the Access Denied and Spontaneous Unavailable Content issues that have been cropping up. If you or your students experience any of these problems after 4:00 PM today, please let [More...]

Blackboard 9.0 DateRangePicker Patch Jane already noticed, but I wanted to let you all know that the DateRangePicker patch has been applied to Blackboard 9.0. This means that you should no longer see this error when editing exams that only contain a Display After or a Display Until date: If you ever see [More...]

Blackboard 9.0 "Weirdness" Both Carmen and Melissa have sent me screen shots and emails from students who suddenly had all content in their course disabled. Carmen and I have experienced this individually as well - only from the instructor perspective. All menu items will be unavailable or empty. Carmen fixed the problem by [More...]

New Blackboard 9.0 Patch OK, so remember that special, double-secret patch that Blackboard had created to fix the DateRangePickerTag error? Yeah. So, um, Blackboard sent Ryan at UC the wrong patch. He is currently working with our TSM to have the correct one [More...]

New Blackboard 9.0 Patch Last week I mentioned that the DateRangePickerTag error was still around (see below): Ryan at UC had a lengthy conversion with our TSM at Blackboard where it was revealed that yes! This is a resolved issue! But! Only if you applied a special, double-secret patch that was not included [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...]