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.

Work around for Firefox 3 and Blackboard Issue

Thanks to Sydney Brown for finding and testing the work around. It works!

Work around for Firefox 3 and Blackboard Issue

Thanks to Sydney Brown for finding and testing the work around. It works!

Teaching/Blackboard Resources

Here is some good information on Blogs and Wikis in Blackboard. Click the links to download PDF start-up files.

Here is some Podcasting Information:

More information on podcasting, pedagogy, you-tube, and instructional design.
http://blog.podagogy.com/

We can learn from Starbucks!
http://podonomics.com/why-starbucks-coffee-conversations-podcast-failed/

The Education Podcast Network (EPN)
http://pedagogy.cwrl.utexas.edu/?q=node/84

Are you having problems adding comments to your Gradebook?

Clicking Modify Comments from the Modify Grade page results in an error "Attempt must be submitted before adding comments." Comments must be entered from the Item Grade List.

Click on the name/title of the assignment/column. Then click Modify Grade List. From there you can add comments for individual students.

Summer and Fall '08 Courses

Your Summer and Fall 2008 courses will be available on Blackboard in mid to late March. All course shells are controlled by data that we receive from Records and Registration. Blackboard does not receive this data until registration for these semesters is officially open.

We will be putting out a notice when these courses are available.

Blogs and Wikis

Check out the new Blog and Wiki tools in Blackboard. Do you want to have your students keep a private, electronic journal that is easy to grade? Or, provide a collaborative work place for your student groups to work on a project? Then check out the Blog and Wiki tools. You can access face-to-face and online training on both tools at http://training.unl.edu.