Author: Malcolm Hays

Wimba Upgrade on October 9, 2009

Posted by on October 2, 2009

IT will be upgrading Wimba Voice Tools building block within Blackboard on Friday, October 9, 2009, starting at 5:30 p.m. Wimba Live Classroom and other Voice Tools will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes during the upgrade process. Regular Blackboard services will still be available. If you have any questions, please contact the IT Help […]

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Blackboard — Digital Dropbox Permanently Decommissioned Summer 2010

Posted by on October 2, 2009

Blackboard’s Digital Dropbox  will be permanently decommissioned in Summer 2010, prior to the release of Blackboard Version 9 on our campus. The Digital Dropbox has been used most commonly by students to store data files prior to submission to the instructor’s dropbox, but will no longer be supported in Blackboard 9. Digital Dropbox will no […]

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Blackboard: Message Communications Tool Available on Friday, September 25

Posted by on September 24, 2009

Blackboard Message, a tool available within the Communications Area of Blackboard, will be made available to all instructors starting on Friday, September 25, 2009. EdTech will be conducting a demonstration of the Blackboard Message functionality and best practices at noon on Friday, October 2, 2009, during the Cyberlearning Faculty Learning Community (FLC) meeting in Civil […]

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Blackboard: Wimba Live Classroom Upgrade on Friday, September 25

Posted by on September 24, 2009

IT will be upgrading Wimba Live Classroom tool inside Blackboard from version 3.3 to version 4.0 on Friday, September 25, starting at 5:30 p.m. Wimba Live Classrooms will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes during the upgrade process. Regular Blackboard services will still be available. Wimba  Live Classroom provides a live virtual classroom experience for […]

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Blackboard service restored

Posted by on September 21, 2009

Blackboard service has been restored.

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Blackboard currently unavailable

Posted by on September 21, 2009

The campus Blackboard application is currently experiencing extremely poor performance due to server issues.  Our Blackboard administrators are currently working to restore service and expect services to be restored within an hour.  Updates will be posted at IT Press and EdTech Connect as they become available. If you have any questions, please contact the IT […]

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SS2009 Courses in Blackboard Set to Unavailable Friday, September 11, 2009

Posted by on September 10, 2009

Summer Semester 2009 courses in Blackboard will be set to “unavailable” to students on Friday, September 11, 2009, starting at 5:30 p.m. Instructors can still see all of the course content inside a Blackboard course, but students will be unable to see the SS2009 courses at all. Instructors will be able to set a course […]

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Blackboard Intermittent Service on Sunday, September 13, 2009

Posted by on September 10, 2009

Blackboard service will be intermittent on Sunday, September 13, 2009, from 6 – 10 a.m. as network upgrades are being performed. Customers can expect Blackboard service outages as long as 30 minutes during this maintenance window. Please call the Help Desk with questions about this or any other issue at 573-341-HELP (4357).

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Blackboard Maintenance on Friday, September 11, 2009

Posted by on September 10, 2009

  Blackboard will be undergoing maintenance on Friday, September 11, 2009, from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Blackboard will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Please call the Help Desk with questions about this or any other issue at 573-341-HELP (4357).

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Back-to-School Blackboard Seminar Series

Posted by on July 31, 2009

Educational Technology will be hosting a series of Blackboard training sessions in August to help instructors get prepared in using Blackboard for Fall semester. All instructors are welcome to attend. All sessions will be held in Centennial Hall 105 (Technology Classroom) from 9 – 11 a.m. on the dates indicated below: Date: Monday, August 10 […]

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