Full audits were conducted of the Release 6.1 and 7.1 of the Blackboard Academic Suite. The results of the audit outlined compliance for the Academic Suite based on both Section 508 and WAI standards.
Wed 24 Oct 2007
Accessibility and the Blackboard Academic Suite
Posted by Administrator under Blackboard , myUSF News[2] Comments
Tue 16 Oct 2007
The servers hosting SafeAssign at Blackboard Inc. are currently experiencing unscheduled downtime. During this time, the SafeAssign tool will not load and you may experience a delay in the processing time for reports. Our first report of this problem was around 7:00 p.m. EDT.
Please note: this effects only those assignments which utilize the SafeAssign plagiarism service. Regular assignments are working properly.
I’ll update this when I have an ETA on service restoration.
Update:As of 9:10 p.m. EDT access to the SafeAssign service has been restored.
Mon 15 Oct 2007
Bugz: Snapshot error disabled courses Sunday morning
Posted by Glen Parker under AC , BlackboardNo Comments
What happened is that OASIS / Banner was being updated this weekend, and thanks to a bug in Blackboard, the lack data was processed incorrectly resulting in all courses being disabled for a few hours Saturday Sunday. From roughly 5:30 to 10:30am Saturday Sunday courses were not available to Student or Instructors. Course contents were not affected by the error, no data was lost as a result of this incident.
The title was corrected to read Sunday, not Saturday. The problem happened Sunday morning, and affected courses between 5:30am and 10:30am. Sorry about any confusion.