Speed up your Blackboard Communication

Did you know that when you post an announcement to your Blackboard class, you can automatically email the announcement to the entire class roster? Just go to Control Panel> Announcements, then when you add your announcement, click the button to automatically Email the announcement to all course users. Blackboard does all the work for you. This is a great way to email students, and create a record of your communication in your course. If your students do not check their email very often, they will still see the information when they log in to your class.

Safe Assign Unavailable

Please note that Blackboard SafeAssignTM will be unavailable while undergoing maintenance on Saturday, September 27. This maintenance window is part of an update which will include the following improvements:

* Support for Microsoft Office 2007 (.docx) and OpenOffice (.odt) word processing documents
* Support for use of SafeAssign in Blackboard Community SystemTM Organizations
* Stability enhancements
* Bug fixes

The system is expected to be intermittently unavailable from the morning through evening (EDT) on September 27.