Adam MasseyThe upgrade over new year, to prepare us for the move to New Box View, also squished some bugs. As we were moving from Q2 2017 Cumulative Update 3, to Q2 2017 Cumulative Update 5, there were lots of fixes. The following three caused us the most problems this academic year: Can’t access menus in the Continue Reading…
Category: Known Issues
SignUp Lists available again
The upgrade to the April 2014 release of Blackboard broke the SignUp Lists. We’ve installed the latest version of the building block and the feature is available once more. For instructions on creating new SignUp lists, see the updated instructions. When course copying content from 2013 to 2014 courses, SignUp lists will copy correctly once Continue Reading…
SignUp lists feature currently broken
Neil CocklinSignUp lists have been fixed. More information Since the recent update to Blackboard the SignUp lists feature has not been working correctly. All existing lists can still be accessed for information purposes but no new lists can be created at this time. As a short term work around you may wish to consider using a Continue Reading…
Problem with Internet Explorer 11 and Blackboard
There is a problem with using Internet Explorer 11 and Blackboard. We have been assured that Blackboard are aware of the issue and are doing their best to fix it. In the mean time we advise to use either Fire Fox or Chrome to access Blackboard.
Known Issue – Blackboard logins
Overnight there was a problem with the Aston’s internet connection. This appears to have affected logins for any system that is hosted externally to the University which includes Blackboard. To login to Blackboard please login to MAP first at http://aston.ac.uk/map and then browse to http://vle.aston.ac.uk Apologies for any inconvenience, the team is working to resolve Continue Reading…
Known Issue: Double spaced emails
When sending an announcement email or an email through the system with the new web text editor, the message received is double-spaced and isn’t formatted as it appeared in the web text editor before sending. The email is still readable, and the announcement is formatted correctly when viewed in Blackboard. This will be fixed in Continue Reading…
Known Issue: Chrome and Firefox blocking Equella content
This primarily affects PDFs of book chapters scanned in by the library, but some courses will use Equella for other types of content. Both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are blocking access to content stored on Equella Links from Blackboard to Equella are represented by this icon Google Chrome The workaround is to click the Continue Reading…