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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

I closed navigation frame down and now can't get it back.

Hi can anyone help. I logged onto Blackboard, then clicked My Courses. In here down the left hand side is a navigation pane that has pages such as Announcements, My Grades...etc However I accidentally clicked a left arrow which minised this pane. Now all I can see is the initial annoucements screen and...

Posted to Archived CE and Vista Student Forum (Forum) by Paul Tiernan on 19 Jul 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

Disabling Browser Check?

Is there any way for me as a user to turn off the annoying Browser Check popup in VISTA 8? I'm using FF 6 and it has been giving me the popup nearly every time I have logged on for the past year (so, also in FF 4 and 5 over 3 different computer systems I use). If I have Java disabled it pops up every...

Posted to Archived CE and Vista Student Forum (Forum) by Andrew Stark on 24 Aug 2011

blackboard says I'm not enrolled in any classes

blackboard says I'm not enrolled in any classes but I am enrolled in three. None of the are showing up. Does anyone know what I should do? Toni

Posted to Archived CE and Vista Student Forum (Forum) by Toni Marano on 24 Aug 2011

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

HELP- looking for a Blackboard for Dummies type guide- but one geared for students-- not administrators

I am just starting online classes. Need basic info- took me all semester to realize that visual input box on top right should have been on. Need help attaching- learning pdfs-- making hyperlink, just basic stuff... HELP!! I would rather buy a book if possible. Thanks!

Posted to Archived CE and Vista Student Forum (Forum) by kathleen whelan on 13 Apr 2011