http://bbnews.blog.usf.edu Welcome to my blog@USF blog Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:19:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Created Thursday, Oct 2nd, 4:00pm Updated Monday Oct 6th, 6:34pm Updated Thursday Oct 9th, 9:01am Blackboard Inc. has performed an upgrade to their SafeAssign service, and this upgrade has not gone well. Beginning Wednesday around 5pm, we received reports that Instructors were sporadically unable to access graded SafeAssignments, and students were unable ... http://bbnews.blog.usf.edu/2008/10/02/safeassign-disruption A severe performance problem was identified with one of the modules attached to the default Courses and Organizations tabs supplied by Blackboard. The fix for this was to make the default Tab unavailable and replace it with a new tab that did not include the broken module. By ... http://bbnews.blog.usf.edu/2008/10/01/reset-of-courses-and-organization-tab After way too many years, we finally have a mechanism that allows Blackboard Instructors to view the course as a true student. Simply called “Create Temporary Student”, this tool creates a student account based on your own NetID and password and enrolls them into your Blackboard course. ... http://bbnews.blog.usf.edu/2008/08/18/instructor-tools-create-a-temporary-student-account Blackboard is offering Blackboard Sync, a Facebook application that delivers course information and updates from Blackboard to you inside Facebook. You can find out if you have a new assignment, grade, new forum posts, etc., without having to leave Facebook. Blackboard Sync also cross-references your courses’ Rosters ... http://bbnews.blog.usf.edu/2008/08/18/student-tools-blackboard-sync-blackboard-and-facebook Processing began for student enrollments for Fall courses in Blackboard. Students registered for Fall courses in OASIS/Banner should now be enrolled in those courses in Blackboard. The Blackboard course sites are available, and students are now able to view and interact with them. Happy Fall Semester. http://bbnews.blog.usf.edu/2008/08/11/fall-enrollments-now-active-in-blackboard Respondus Inc. has released Respondus 3.5.4e. The 3.5.4e patch adds support for the importing of MS Word 2007 (.docx) files, support for version 8 of the Blackboard Learning System, enhanced “Save As” functions (including the new StudyMate Class Server XML format), and other enhancements and fixes. An overview of the ... http://bbnews.blog.usf.edu/2008/07/09/respondus-update-support-for-word-2007-blackboard-8 Firefox 3 was released Tuesday June 17th. For the most part, Firefox 3 is compatible with myUSF Blackboard, but we have identified at least one significant area in which Firefox 3 fails. When trying to upload an attachment to an assignment with Firefox 3, we get ... http://bbnews.blog.usf.edu/2008/06/24/firefox-3-blackboard-compatibility Take this list for what it’s worth. 1. Should show new announcement for every week 2. The course is very well organized with logical structure of folders and the contents are clear and clean. There should not be too much course materials shown as text or graphics on one web page. 3. The students should ... http://bbnews.blog.usf.edu/2007/12/19/instructor-tools-what-makes-a-good-online-course The servers hosting SafeAssign at Blackboard Inc. are currently experiencing unscheduled downtime. During this time, the SafeAssign tool will return an error message and you may experience a delay in the processing time for reports. Our first report of this problem was around 8:00 a.m. EDT. Please note: this effects only ... http://bbnews.blog.usf.edu/2007/11/07/safe-assign-outage Now through the end of the semester, Academic Computing is hosting walk-in clinics where you can ask any questions you have related to Blackboard at USF.   There will be two sessions each week, starting on November 2: Tuesday 4:30pm - 7:00pm Friday 11:00am - 2:00pm Clinics will be held in LIB 618, on the 6th ... http://bbnews.blog.usf.edu/2007/11/02/walk-in-clinics-for-all-things-blackboard-hosted-by-academic-computing