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Unable to save and submit Tests

Specifically, what was witnessed today in our Computer Lab were 5 students among 20 others taking the same test who after taking their exam in Blackboard, could not submit their exam, which forced us to capture screen shots of each exam, print out, and give to the Instructor to grade by hand. Not acceptable...

Posted to System Administrators (IT Pros) (Forum) by Michael Womack on 11 Dec 2012

HTML in Test Export

Hi, I've recently come accross an issue with exporting surveys and tests, where some html is embedded in the question string. In the export, the following html is included: Question Title: <div class="vtbegenerated"><p>Question Text</p></div> Question Answer: <div...

Posted to Archived Blackboard Learn discussions (Forum) by Bethan Reid on 22 Nov 2012

Cheap Standalone Test Server Trouble with SMTP

My elderly test server is being replaced with an inexpensive HP p6-2390. This might be interesting for those of you who are equally broke. This machine was right around $200 and came with 4GB of RAM I have Windows2008 server R2 Enterprise and now SQL2008 clean installs for both which wasn't easy...

Posted to System Administrators (IT Pros) (Forum) by Beth Cummings on 16 Nov 2012

Upgrade from BB Learn 9.1.6 to 9.1.7 failed

Hello! I'm very new the system admin side of Blackboard and I feel quite lost. I was tasked with upgrading our current Blackboard server which was successfully running Learn version 9.1.6, but the installation of SP7 is failing. I'm running on a fully updated server 2003. Here's the end of...

Posted to System Administrators (IT Pros) (Forum) by Nathan Sloan on 15 Nov 2012

double quote turns to %60 in emails

I wonder if anyone had experience of this? We are using Bb 9.1.90132.0. One user wanted to send an email from a module. He found only the double quotes were changed to %60 in the email, other special characters were fine. He uses Mac 10.6.8 and Firefox 16.0.2. Only English language pack is installed...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Jin Tan on 15 Nov 2012

Post Tagging in Discussion Board

What is Post Tagging and how does it work? I don't see any way to tag. Do students have an option to search for key words in a discussion board.

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Leonora on 23 Oct 2012

Request: Input on Batch File!

We use Windows 2008 on four nodes/application servers, and we need to automate. Here is a sample Windows batch file we want to run via a Windows "Automated Task" every day at 1-2 AM, input please. Thank you, Greg +++++++++++++++ Windows Batch File -- Start +++++++++++++++++ c: cd\blackboard...

Posted to System Administrators (IT Pros) (Forum) by Greg Hoeck on 22 Oct 2012

Resource not found error when trying to access a course as an administrator

I used to be able to log into Blackboard Learn 9.1 and as the administrator, have access to all the courses so I could walk faculty through issues and make changes when necessary. Now when I try to access courses from the administrator's panel I get the "resource not found" message. What...

Posted to Archived Blackboard Learn discussions (Forum) by Stephanie Hansen on 2 Oct 2012

indication of late assignments - list view and bulk downloads - how?

I am using Bb 9.1 - and I am a new user, but I haven't been able to find the answer to this question in spite of looking everywhere for a few days and asking our local Bb expert. My question is simple, why is there no easy/obvious indication if an assignment is late? While looking at grading an assignment...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by EB on 22 Sep 2012

Planner page (9.1)

Hi, I would like to add a module to the Planner page that will allow me to add HTML. Currently there are options to add Alerts, Course Media, My Announcements, My Calendar etc, but nothing that lets you simply add HTML? As a note, I assume the layout of this Planner page can only be adjusted by changes...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by John Sumpter on 17 Sep 2012