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Archive for June, 2009

Summer 2008 Blackboard Courses Removed Starting July 1st

Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Blackboard, Blackboard Status | No Comments »

We apologize for the very short notice, but because we need to do some extensive maintenance work on the Blackboard system, we are trying to clean up the system as ... Read more..

Reminder: Blackboard Unavailable July 3rd - July 5th

Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Blackboard Status | No Comments »

Blackboard will be down next week for a move of the database to a new server.  Downtime will start just after midnight of Friday, July 3rd, and will conclude on ... Read more..

Turnitin Unavailable Saturday July 11th

Monday, June 22nd, 2009 Posted in TurnItIn | No Comments »

From Turnitin: Turnitin will be unavailable on Saturday July 11, 2009 from 10:00 am CDT to 10:00 pm CDT for routine system maintenance. Read more..

Tech Bit #14 - Blackboard Help Podcasts

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Posted in Blackboard, Podcast, Tech Bit, iTunes | No Comments »

IMG offers online help in Flash, PDF, and HTML formats, and now there is another format available: Podcasts. Throughout the upcoming semester, IMG will convert the help for Blackboard into ... Read more..

Internet Explorer 8 and Blackboard

Thursday, June 4th, 2009 Posted in Blackboard | 1 Comment »

Although it passes the browser checker, Microsoft's Internet Explorer version 8 is not fully supported by Blackboard. The Tracking function in Blackboard will sometimes not load. Until the issue is ... Read more..

Tech Bit #13 - New Blackboard Toolkit Feature

Thursday, June 4th, 2009 Posted in Blackboard Toolkit, Tech Bit | No Comments »

A new feature for Blackboard Toolkit has been released. After logging into Blackboard Toolkit, you will see all your courses for the current semester. No need to type your last ... Read more..