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Accessing External Links

Hello, My professor has a tab under the course entitled External Links. When I click on any of the links, a button pops us that says 'download all content'. I click on that and then I get a blank page with an X in the upper left corner. Nothing downloads, nothing appears. I've verified that...

Posted to Students (Forum) by Pam Wang on 6 Sep 2012

Recovering past class's emails/other information

Hi there! I am in a situation where I need to some how retrieve past e-mails and other information from a class I recently took. My class is not on my Blackboard homepage anymore and I need these documents to Appeal a grade I received from a specific teacher. I tried to contact Blackboard Support but...

Posted to Students (Forum) by Kalista Weiss on 7 May 2012

deleting private messages?

Is it technologically possible for instructors to delete messages sent from one student to another through the Blackboard mail? I.e. to go into students' individual mailboxes and delete messages there that the students had received from another student?

Posted to Students (Forum) by Bob Sawyer on 8 Mar 2012

FGC Blackboard - Edit Personal Information

Hi, My FGC Blackboard is acting up. Whenever I go to edit my Personal Information such as my address, phone number, and such, I type it all in and click Submit, but it always comes up with an error screen. Even when I don't type anything in and click Submit it comes up and says: A database error...

Posted to Students (Forum) by Stephanie Kurimay on 22 Aug 2011

Error "server timed out", when clicking Bb link on university website.

Hi Dr. C I'm in week 5 of my semester and all has been going great until Friday, July 22. Since then, clicking the Bb link on my university site, after logging in, results in an error message saying the server for Bb did not respond. Normally I use Firefox, but also tried on Safari. (I use a mac...

Posted to Students (Forum) by HENDRIK KOCH on 27 Jul 2011

Accessing Blackboard from Mac using parental controls

Using OS 10.6.7, Safari 5.0.4, I am unable to upload to Blackboard from user accounts that do not have administrative privileges ie. accounts with parental controls enabled. The administrator at my school is unaware of other users using the Apple built-in parental controls and his eyes tend to glaze...

Posted to Students (Forum) by Brian Collins on 19 Apr 2011

Will not load

There are three of us in the home that use Blackboard for online classes. About 3 weeks ago we started having continuous problems getting blackboard to function properly. I will not load, it just spins and spins and will not continue loading. Two systems are Windows 7 64 bit using Firefox, the third...

Posted to Students (Forum) by Kathi Rohde on 19 Feb 2011

can my work be recovered after it is lost due to a session time out?

i was completing a homework assignment for one of my classes and took me roughly an hour to finish. when i went to click submit it brought me back to the login page. it now appears that my work was never submitted nor saved. is there anyway to recover this or do i have to do it all over again? please...

Posted to Students (Forum) by Brittney Nolan on 26 Jan 2011

Not able to long in to Bb

I am getting an error message every time i try to log in on my sprint android phone. I try to submit my login info but it always come back with "UNEXPECTED ERROR: Unable to Submit Login Credentials" . I asked my schools help desk and they told me their was noting they can do. Also I have uninstaller...

Posted to Students (Forum) by James Heasley on 8 Jan 2011

bugs in new blackboard

I am running across a few annoying bugs in the new version that Edcc (Edmonds Community College) is working with. One is when I am working on a test assignment on Blackboard, the questions continue off the page. They do not text wrap. Bad scripting??? I have to keep scrolling to the right to keep reading...

Posted to Students (Forum) by Jen S on 3 Jan 2011