myUSF, USF’s customized implementation of the Blackboard Academic Suite, is to be upgraded to the latest version of Blackboard, 7.2. This software provides new features, as well as additional important performance enhancements that have been made to the system.
- New Features -
- Early Warning System
- Enhanced E-Portfolios
- Enhanced Discussion Board
- Many-to-Many Observers
- Workflow Improvements to Announcements, EMail, Gradebook, Messaging
- Folder Passes for Content System
- Integrated Course Podcasting
Release Notes and Details on New Features [pdf]
—Summer Semester Course Sites Availability—
All C07 course sites are currently available in myUSF. Instructor assignments —as specified in OASIS/Banner— for the upcoming semester have already begun. Any content added to the C07 course sites prior to the beginning of the upgrade window will be migrated with the upgrade.
Student enrollment for the summer term begins after final exams, on Saturday, May 5th.
Update Sat 2:56pm The update is complete.
April 14th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Will the Early Warning componet be linked to the registar?
April 14th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
The Early warning system is self-contained within each Blackboard Course Site. It does not currently communicate any information outside of the course site. In particular, it is not linked to the Registrars Banner system.
The early warning system lets instructors define learning objective thresholds for different components of their course, such as document, assessments, or discussion board activity. This lets the instructors quickly see which students are meeting or exceeding the learning objectives, and which need additional assistance.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Will the upgraded version retore the “Mark All Read/ Unread” function?
Thank you!
May 15th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
The pencil icon does not appear in the course list module anymore; how can I remove courses from the list? Thank you
May 20th, 2007 at 8:50 am
The series of posts about BB being down on 5/20 in the morning have now disappeared. This is really quite eerie. Does BB delete any criticism of its performance so anyone attempting to ask a question will find their questions deleted?
May 20th, 2007 at 8:58 am
You published you comments to a different thread. You confusion was simple error on your part. We don’t delete any posts save ones that are obvious spam.
Thanks, Glen
May 20th, 2007 at 9:11 am
My courses for summer 07 have disappeared. I am definitely currently registered for them (I checked Oasis to verify this, and it is true). I have to complete an assingment, which is due tomorrow, this afternoon and I need access to my course web-sites to do so: what could be the cause of this, and what should I do?
May 20th, 2007 at 9:28 am
I had two people verify that the oteher discussion it had disappeared…which is why I intentionally posted here so there would be a record….then it came back up.
I think that BB is censoring criticism of the system..couldn’t they have an algo.that does that? And I have been getting messages from my students directly for 2 hours so this has been a very bad teaching morning.
May 20th, 2007 at 10:29 am
I don’t know what you think is missing, but we don’t delete comments that aren’t spam. Old posts may filter off the front page, but all posts are still online along with their commetns. Please provide a link to the original Blog entry that contains the missing comments.
This blog is owned and managed by USF, not Blackboard. Blackboard has no access to modify or delete comments.