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icon beside course name to indicate new discussion item or mail

In BlackBoard 8, when you would login and your course list would appear, a small icon beside the course name would indicate that there was a new discussion item or email. We are now using BlackBoard 9.1, and this does not seem to be present. Even when you open "Discussions" there appears to...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Vincent Ryan on 8 Oct 2012

Blackboard, Private Content, Tin-Can Project and iOS Mobile Apps

We are now creating content that does support the Tin Can API so we also need Blackboard to support this as at the moment the native Articulate Mobile Player app (allowing Flash content Playback on iOS) cannot access the private content within the LMS. Does anyone know when will Blackboard supports Tin...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Paul Trainer on 13 Aug 2012

When copying a course, the Turnitin assignment due dates change

My school is using Blackboard Learn 9.1 Learn and we utilize Turnitin assignments heavily. Because of our integration with the CampusVue campus management system, the courses are created in "sandboxes" and copied into the CampusVue-generated "official course" shortly before the start...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by E Rudd on 9 Aug 2012

Tests connected to test bank questions in Blackboard Learn 9.1

We have a situation where a test pool has thousands of questions. What we would like to be able to do is find out which questions are associated to which tests. The only way we can see do this is to edit each test and at the top of the test question Blackboard will tell you if the question is associated...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Derek Blair on 6 Jul 2012

Organizing files in the file exchange

We are in the process of moving all faculty over to Blackboard, and one department would rely heavily on the file exchange tool in groups. Is there a way for students or the Instructor to organize the files that are uploaded using folders or the like?

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Bryn Lutes on 20 Feb 2012

Faculty overwriting course duration with course copy

We are running 9.1 SP6 When faculty copy a development course over to a section created by our import process from our SIS (Banner) the course duration settings (start and end date) that the faculty may or may not have set on the development section overwrite those duration settings we have applied to...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Joseph Mccormick on 16 Nov 2011

Re: Browser Test Message

Hey Mike, I have a question on the check browser feature.. or lack there of? I talked with another university using Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Blackboard Learning System - CE Enterprise License (Release CE 8.0.5) and they informed me that Blackboard has the built in browser check...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by adam.hiatt on 13 Jul 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

Images do not display for students

In Blackboard 9.1, I have created Learning Modules with images in them. I have then copied the Learning Modules to multiple courses. I am able to view the images both with edit mode on and off but students are unable to view them without me logging into the computer they are using and viewing them first...

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Ryan Abramic on 25 Apr 2011

Student Embed in Bb 9.1?

Quick question about Bb 9.1 here - can student use any embed code (Voki, YouTube, etc) into discussion posts, blogs, wikis, etc? Or does it depend on the browser? I couldn't find a direct answer to this using the forum search feature... Thanks in advance, Jason

Posted to Educators and Designers (Forum) by Jason Vickers on 18 Apr 2011