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Lesson Plan Display Issue

Our college has Learn 9.1, SP6 in a Manged Hosting environment. We have an instructor who has built a lesson plan in a course that is having display issues. When icons and text are selected to display, the lesson is cut off at about the half way point, meaning that all lesson icons to do not display...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Greg McCaffity on 16 Dec 2011

Corrupt Links to a Content System Files

We're on Bb 9.1 sp3 and have the content and community system. One of my course designers is having an inconsistent issue when linking to items in the content system. Because we have used the CMS for a while, we still have quite a bit of course content at the institution level - not ideal, but we...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Ryan Fuller on 28 Sep 2011

migrate course content from Bb7 to Bb9.1

I'm attempting to migrate course content from v7 to v9.1. I'm able to export course content, copy but receive error messages when importing to v9.1. Suggestions?

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Linda Bloom on 2 Jun 2011

Re: Assignments - not wanting late papers

Hello, I have been wondering about this same thing, so I'm happy to have found this. Can you tell me if you Limit Availability -- are the students still able to see the assignment--but just can't access it? My worry is that if it is no longer available in the list as viewable, that I'll have...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Jackie Jacobsen on 15 Apr 2011

Discussions - Forums vs. Threads?

Hello, I am rebuilding a course from CE8 in 9.1. I am trying to decide what to do with the Forums/Threads and decided to ask others what they suggest. Say, in my Week 2, I have several discussion questions for my students to answer. Should I ... 1. Create a separate forum for each question? 2. Create...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Jackie Jacobsen on 15 Apr 2011

Re: How do students view all journal entries in a Journal?

Thanks. Am waiting to hear back from Blackboard as to whether there is a suitable patch. It's weird that the index works in the Group Journal tool, but not in the individual private Journal.

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Sharon Kitching on 6 Apr 2011

Re: How do students view all journal entries in a Journal?

Hmmm, I've tried both the workaround that were previously suggested to make journal indexing appear : 1. Make a post from the previous month 'new' in order to force the month to appear 2. Make a comment on a post from a previous month .. in order to force it to appear Neither of these work...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Sharon Kitching on 3 Apr 2011

Retracting tests with submissions

Hell panel, I am new to Blackboard 9.1 sp3, (switched from Sakai in mid-February) so please ignore the simplistic questions. I think a brief scenario would help put context around my quesions. Recently, we had an instructor (using Sakai) retract a live test with multiple student submissions. She edited...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Matthew Schneider on 30 Mar 2011

Export Portfolios

Is there a way to export a portfolio in 9.1? The students would like to be able to export their completed portfolio into a zip file so that when they have completed the class they have it as a take away.

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Debbie Smith on 10 Feb 2011

Flash is very small on Firefox

Hello, I am making an interactive page by using Flash CS5, but I am running into a problem when using Firefox. It appears very small on Firefox, but it appears nice and big on Chrome. I'm trying to make it take up the whole frame that is created. I use the "Add Flash/Shockwave" button,...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Patrick Bollinger on 8 Feb 2011