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Blackboard Learn Spring 2016 Course Migration: (July 8th – July 13, 2016)
July 6, 2016For thousands of years, herds of buffalo would migrate across the North-American continent seasonally. While a great site to behold, it would be unwise to enter among the horned throng during their sojourn. Present day Rochester, NY is not privy to such a display. However, we at Eastman are in the midst of another great […]
Read More...Course Mergers on Hold until Web Based Course Tool is Back Online
December 23, 2015Snow? No. Course merging? No. Indeed, just as there should be snow on the ground and we should be tired of it by now, we should also be having our courses merged and cheering (or at least smiling). While an El Niño can be blamed for our lack of snow, we can only blame another […]
Read More...How to Change your email address in Blackboard Learn (UPDATED 2016)
September 30, 2015Some things in life, like washing your hands before a meal, or just washing in general, have to be repeated. Today, I am offering another tutorial (one of undoubtedly thousands) on how to change your email address in Blackboard 9.1, as currently hosted by the University of Rochester. What makes mine different? Nothing, really. Except, I do […]
Read More...Instructors: Changing the Title of your Course in Blackboard 9.1
August 22, 2012For some reason you may find that the name of your course is not to your liking. Or even worse, your course was created without a real title at all (this can happen if the course was created before the title of the course was officially added). What do you do? Please follow the steps […]
Read More...Incoming Students: Accessing Blackboard
June 13, 2012Summer is here! That brings not only warm weather, verdant vegetation and delicious backyard barbecues, but also confusion regarding how to gain access to Blackboard for some of our incoming students in both Summer and Fall semesters. Usually the problem is similar to scenarios described below: An incoming student needs to acquire a NetID but […]
Read More...Blackboard was down; Back up.
January 16, 2012At 2AM this morning, Blackboard was down. No word yet on when it went down and for how long it was unavailable. I will keep you posted. With the server down, we can not do the following on the server: Access Blackboard Add users to courses Copy courses Troubleshoot courses However, we most likely can […]
Read More...Blackboard 9.1: New Features Sessions
January 6, 2012Welcome to the all new Blackboard version 9.1! So, what’s this new version of Blackboard all about and how does it affect you and I? Your answers to that and more can be found during 5 overview sessions to take place at the following locations and times: Eastman Media Lab (SLC 103a): Wednesday, Jan 11th, 9:30am […]
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