Starting around 11:30 AM today, the Kaltura servers were inaccessible on-campus preventing users from accessing videos and audio files on Kaltura. This means that: Students and faculty cannot view Kaltura videos Faculty cannot access the My Media tab Faculty cannot embed new videos into their course Faculty cannot upload new videos into My Media Camtasia Relay [More...]

At 11:30 AM this morning, UC installed a patched version of the Kaltura Building Block.  Joel tested the functionality of this building block on the clone system using several different browsers and using both student and instructor roles. Please let us know ASAP if you receive any additional complaints related to Kaltura [More...]

Due to high uptime, UC will be restarting the Blackboard chat server on Thursday, January 17 at 7:00 AM.  This means that the chat server (which powers Collaboration>Chat and Collaboration>Virtual Classroom) will be unavailable for approximately 5 to 8 minutes.  No other functions within Blackboard will be affected. Please let me know [More...]

With the implementation of the new Blackboard snapshot job over break, there are some changes to the timing of when student enrollments are added in Blackboard. Old Way: In the old snapshot, all active student enrollments were added to all courses when we enabled the enrollments the morning after fee drop. This included [More...]

Time to Archive Your Spring Courses! Spring Quarter 2012 Blackboard courses will be disabled on the morning of Monday, July 30th, 2012. We advise all faculty to archive and save your Spring classes prior to Monday [More...]

Marketing and Communication announced the removal of the CSCC website name "www2" and change to the name "www" on June 1 and again on June 7. While it was delayed by a few days, the change has been made. Please ensure all the CSCC website links in your Blackboard classes still work! Many of you have links for [More...]

Marketing and Communication announced the removal of the CSCC website name "www2" and change to the name "www" on June 1 and again on June 7. While it was delayed by a few days, the change has been made. Please ensure all the CSCC website links [More...]

Blackboard Emergency Maintenance Downtime Blackboard will be unavailable early in the morning tomorrow - Tuesday, June 5, 2012 from 12:01 a.m. until 2:00 a.m. - so the University of Cincinnati can perform emergency network maintenance. No changes are being made to the [More...]

Microsoft is trying out a new social network, different from facebook, called Socl. It's main focus is to get you to share your interests and then hook you up with other people based similar, or a platform to post "neat" things you find, that other people may find interested vs "friends" aka [More...]

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