Access to Blackboard will be interrupted overnight on Thursday, 28th June 2018 into the early hours of Friday 29th. The work will begin at 2300 BST and will last six hours. Access to Blackboard should be considered at risk during these … Continued
Please note that there is a scheduled Rolling Restart on Aston Blackboard System for Wednesday 30th May at 1am BST. This is a necessary task to be undertaking to avoid future performance issues on the Blackboard database environment. We don’t expect … Continued
The latest version of Safari (11.1) is unable to upload file attachments to Blackboard. If you try to attach a file to a content item, you will recieve an error: Students are also affected by this bug when submitting assignments … Continued
The following video shows you how to apply specific Test/Quiz settings to specific students or groups. Subtitles/Closed captions are available in the video player and a full transcript is also available to download (pdf). PLEASE NOTE: This video was updated 05/05/2018.
Students running the latest version of Safari (11.1) are unable to submit files to Blackboard assignments. Having attached a file, clicking Submit results in a wait of several seconds, then the following error is displayed at the top of the … Continued
Blackboard will be unavailable for up to 30 mins during the early hours of Friday, 27 April 2018. The work will begin at 0100 BST and will last six hours. See details for other time zones. Blackboard’s Managed Hosting team say … Continued
Early on Monday morning, Blackboard’s Managed Hosting applied a fix for the issue where some students couldn’t click on items in My Grades: Unable to click on entries in My Grades However, this looks to have caused more problems. As … Continued
Some students have reported they are unable to click on entries in My Grades via the My Blackboard menu. Feedback for assignments is available by clicking the name of the assignment (‘Assignment One’, in the screenshot above). Instead of seeing … Continued
When viewing the course reports, the dates the reports were last run are incorrect. The last run date shown is that of a report in a different course. Blackboard’s support reports this has been an issue since May 2014. There … Continued
The following video shows you where you can drag and drop multiple files to make uploading content to Blackboard quicker and easier. Subtitles/Closed captions are available in the video player and a full transcript is also available to download (pdf).
Adam Massey