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A restart of the Blackboard environment is planned for this Friday morning (June 20th) during the morning maintenance window.
This restart is to follow up after the Monday evening incident.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

We wanted to confirm that Blackboard did have periods of unavailability last night (Monday, June 16th) from approximately 9pm until after 10pm.
The problem affected the storage servers that contain documents such as those attached for download or in the digital drop box so some students may report that they could neither download or upload files [...]

In preparation for the fall implementation of Blackboard version 8, training workshops are being offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning. The workshops will be held during the summer semester and are designed to provide hands-on experience with the new features and tools including Syllabus, Glossary Manager, Self & Peer Assessment, and the [...]

Click here to watch the latest video tour of Release 8.0.

Blackboard has recently released a web site designed to provide learning resources regarding their latest release.
Sahar Javadi, Senior Product Marketing Manager says, “you’ll find interactive product tours designed to provide a quick but engaging, and easy-to-forward, look at various parts of Release 8.0.  For even more detailed informatino, you can view a recorded Webinar and [...]

In order to resolve the technical issues we’ve experienced between our version of Blackboard and Internet Explorer 7 as well as provide more functionality (such as an improved grade book and a plagiarism prevention tool) we are in the planning phase for upgrading our Blackboard system. We would very much appreciate your participation and feedback, [...]

Here’s a link to a 30 minute screencast from Donna Wicks at Kettering University for those interested in learning more about version 8.  Thanks to Jason Rhode (Northern Illinois University) for sharing.
http://tinyurl.com/3dco7w

Below is an excerpt from an email I received from Craig Chanoff, Senior Vice President of Client Success:
February 15, 2008
Since our Client Success update last December, we’ve continued to make steady progress in our attempts to improve your experiences with Blackboard. I write today with our first update in 2008, and want to focus [...]

There have been some recent questions regarding the volume licensing agreement MVCC has with Microsoft and its impact on continued use of FrontPage. Let me try to clarify:
1. Those of you that are currently using FrontPage to manage html content on our (public) internet site, our (private) intranet site or in course materials [...]

Blackboard users who recently upgraded to the Vista operating system and Internet Explorer (IE) 7 may find that when they go to a tool (such as the Discussion Board) which contains the Text Box Editor, that there is a tool bar, but no box to type text in.

We experienced a systems outage on Sunday, March 4, 2007 that affected our web services (internet web site, intranet web site, Blackboard, web registration, etc.). The outage happened between 3:30 am and 1:45 pm and was the result of a loss of cooling in the server room. Blackboard was also unavailable from 2:55 [...]