Archives: Known Issues

Blackboard does not log student activity if they are using Blackboard Lite in the Aston App. This means they could be flagged by the Retention Center as not accessing the course, even though they are. Related Pages

If you try to export a SignUp list, it will fail with an error. Depending on what you were planning on doing with the data, you may have some success in selecting the table in your browser, and pasting it into Excel as plain text. Related Pages

Clicking the maximise button – so you can use the full width and height of your browser to mark an assignment – doesn’t use the full height of your browser.

When you click a link to view an Aston Replay link in the Student Preview view, you will be logged into Panopto as you, rather than the Student Preview user. Panopto are aware of this and are working on a fix. Related Pages Student Preview

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. Related Pages AnnouncementsSending Email to a GroupEmail

If you do not grade properly submitted items by the due date for Grade Center columns you create manually or are created by the self and peer assessment tool, a “false” alert is triggered. For manually created columns, students can submit items by the due date, but you must also grade them by the due Continue Reading…

Due to the way in which Blackboard works it can sometimes be problematic linking to non-secured external content. Not all web browsers deal with this issue in the same manner which also makes it difficult instructing students how to access the content. To remove the issues at source we suggest the following: Flickr, SlideShare, Youtube Use Continue Reading…

When a student does not submit during the submission period, the non-submission is still distributed to students during the evaluation period. This means that one or more students will not be able to complete the evaluation stage. You may wish to consider using the PeerMark feature in Turnitin instead. Related Pages Self and Peer AssessmentEvaluating a Continue Reading…

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 Click the shield icon  which appears Continue Reading…