Adam MasseyYou may have experienced poor performance with Blackboard this morning, maybe even seeing a service interruption notice This was the result of a problem with the database caused by SCORM (the part of Blackboard that lets things like Adobe Presenter or Articulate report quiz results back to the Blackboard Grade Centre). To quickly fix the problem, Managed Continue Reading…
Planned Service Interruption – 15th May
Blackboard will be unavailable for approximately 15 minutes on the early morning of May 15th. The maintenance window will begin at 0100 BST and will last for four hours. View details for other timezones.
Blackboard Service Interruption Sunday March 8th
Neil CocklinPlease note that on Sunday March 8th between 1am and 5am GMT there will be maintenance work taking place on Blackboard. During this time there will be disruption to the service meaning you may not be able to access the system. This may also have some impact upon access to related systems such as Panopto/Aston Continue Reading…
Web Folders (WebDAV) are available again
You are able to use WebDAV to manage your course files once more. See Setting Up a Web Folder/WebDAV in Course Files for more information on how to use this feature.
Scheduled Maintenance: Monday 23rd February
Due to essential maintenance, access to Blackboard should be considered at risk between the hours of 0100 – 0300 GMT on Monday 23rd February 2015.
Scheduled Maintenance: Interruption to emails sent from Blackboard overnight tonight
Blackboard have informed us of a six hour maintenance window, beginning at 2300 GMT tonight, which will impact the email functionality of Blackboard. During this period of maintenance, there will be a possible impact to email services for a few minutes. As such, we’d advise not to send any email from Blackboard during the maintenance Continue Reading…
Blackboard help system update
Some of you maybe aware that tutorials section of this web site heavily relies on linking to content within help.blackboard.com. We do this so that we don’t have to re-invent the wheel every time there is Blackboard update. Blackboard have just revised this system, freshening up the interface and proving a far greater level of Continue Reading…
Planned Disruption: Jan 23rd
Due to essential maintenance, Blackboard will be unavailable between the hours of 0100 – 0300 GMT on Friday 23rd Jan.
Date format on Blackboard assignment receipts
Blackboard have installed a new version of the receipting tool. The only change is that the date on the receipt is now shown as dd/mm/yyyy. Prior to today, the date was formatted in the US style mm/dd/yyyy. Existing receipts will still have this format. Note that this only applies to work submitted via a Blackboard assignment, not Continue Reading…
Get viewing statistics & create clips from your Kaltura videos
We’ve switched on the ability for you to create clips from your existing Kaltura videos, and have added tutorials on how to get statistics on the videos in a Blackboard course