a. Access to Reports from the My Grades section of the Student Interface – this feature allows students to view their SafeAssignment matching reports directly from the My Grades sections of their Blackboard accounts.
b. Removal of Deleted Assignments from Gradebook – deletion of assignments is properly reflected in the Blackboard Gradebook with all grades remaining intact but an option to view submitted papers and reports becoming unavailable.
c. Reprocessing Enabled for 0% Reports – now reports with 0% matching can also be reprocessed whenever needed.
d. SafeAssignment Access for Graders and CourseBuilders – users with Grader and CourseBuilder roles now can use SafeAssignment in the corresponding courses according to their Blackboard access privileges.
-----Original Message-----
From: asp.notify@blackboard.com [mailto:asp.notify@blackboard.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:13 AM
To: aspnotify@opsmart.blackboard.com
Subject: Blackboard ASP - Notification 1098982410 - Service_In_Progress
Service In Progress: Dear Valued Customer, We have
been alerted to a problem with your hosted Blackboard system which is
preventing your site from operating properly. We currently have our ASP
Engineers working on the situation and should have the problem resolved
shortly.
As with all technical contacts, if you have any questions concerning
this email, please contact our 24/7 ASP Call Center at 1-888-788-5264
and choosing option 3 or via the web at http://support.blackboard.com.
| Getting Started with Blackboard | |||||||
| Introduction to the Blackboard course web site system for instructors that have never used the system before. | |||||||
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| Using SafeAssignment in Bb | |||||||
| The SafeAssignment system checks student writing for originality. This hands-on training shows an instructor how to create a SafeAssignment and use the report that it generates. | |||||||
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| New Features in Blackboard 6.3 | |||||||
| UM has upgraded from Bb 6.1 to Bb 6.3. This hands-on training will show instructors how to use a number of the new features that have been added. Participants should have either taught with Blackboard before or have taken the "Getting Started with Blackboard" training prior to this session. | |||||||
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I have not promoted this at UM but I probably should. The code listed
below is supposed to go into one of the test items, I believe.
Bill Vilberg
305-284-3949 (work); 786-218-3052 (cell); 305-255-9138 (home)
-----Original Message-----
From: blkbrd-l - A list for Blackboard course administrators and faculty
[mailto:BLKBRD-L@asu.edu] On Behalf Of Brusca, Frank X
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 2:22 PM
To: BLKBRD-L@asu.edu
Subject: Re: [BLKBRD-L] prevent test printing in app pack 3
We've been using this code in exam instructions. It prevents printing
and copying (but not saving).
Frank Brusca
Instructional Technologist
Department of Information Technology
Roush Hall 015B
Otterbein College
Westerville, OH 43081
(614) 823-1875
(614) 823-1335 FAX
fbrusca@otterbein.edu
Basic Release 6.3.1.374/Win 2003/MS SQL 2000 SP2
<STYLE type=text/css>@media print {BODY
{display:none}!important}</STYLE>
<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>
var omitformtags=["input", "textarea", "select"]
omitformtags=omitformtags.join("")
function disableselect(e){
if (omitformtags.indexOf(e.target.tagName.toLowerCase())==-1)
return false
}
function reEnable(){
return true
}
if (typeof document.onselectstart!="undefined")
document.onselectstart=new Function ("return false") else{
document.onmousedown=disableselect
document.onmouseup=reEnable
}
</SCRIPT>
Written Assignments
This class uses the SafeAssignment feature of Blackboard to help students learn to use sources and citations appropriately. SafeAssignment matches the material in student papers against material on the Internet and in our database of UM papers. Representing the words or ideas of someone else as your own is a violation of the honor code and a serious infraction in this course. If you have questions about appropriate ways to include the words or ideas of other people in your papers, contact the instructor. Papers submitted to SafeAssignment are added to the database of UM papers.
You are about to submit a paper via SafeAssignment in Blackboard. The contents of your paper will be matched against material from the Internet and papers from UM. The results will be made available to your professor. By submitting your paper, you agree to this process and you also agree to grant the University of Miami permission to retain a copy of your paper to be used for future matching.
[From a message on the BLKBRD-L mailing list...]
When students take a timed quiz in Bb, they can still answer questions
and submit the quiz after the time limit has expired. This produces a
'!' rather than a mark in the student gradebook and requires manual
attention from the instructor.
-----Original Message-----
From: asp.notify@blackboard.com [mailto:asp.notify@blackboard.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 5:54 PM
To: asp.notify@blackboard.com
Subject: Blackboard ASP - Notification 1098980817 - Service_Restored
Dear Valued Customer,
At approximately 4:15 EST ASP Engineers detected a problem on the
private network switch that connects your database server to your
application server. Upon investigation it was determined that a
forwarding loop was compromising accessibility to the internal network
addresses of your servers .
Our ASP Engineers have corrected the routing problem, and have restored
optimal service to your hosted Blackboard system. If you are still
experiencing problems, or require additional information regarding this
incident, please contact our 24/7 ASP Support Team at 1-888-788-5264 and
choosing option 3 or via the web at http://support.blackboard.com.
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.Please contact the server administrator, bill.vilberg@miami.edu and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
If you need to know in advance, go to Blackboard and click on the "All Courses" tab. There is a "Course ID" listed for each of your courses. Typical courses end with a three digit code that indicates the academic year and semester. The first two digits represent the academic year. All course sites with IDs that end with the following codes will be set to unavailable for students.1999-2000 academic year: -000, -001, -002, -003, -004
2000-2001 academic year: -010, -011, -012, -013, -014
2001-2002 academic year: -020, -021, -022, -023, -024
2002-2003 academic year: -030, -031, -032Special course sites that do not end with a semester code are NOT part of this project. They will remain as they currently exist.
Go to Blackboard and click on the "All Courses" tab. Courses that are unavailable will say so after the course title.
Yes. When Phase 1 is complete you will still be able to access the site. You can get to it from the "All Courses" tab. When Phase 3 is complete the course will be gone from the system and you will not be able to access it any longer.
Let blackboard@miami.edu or bill.vilberg@miami.edu know the course ID of the course that you need us to leave active.
Phase 1, setting the sites to "Unavailable," is accomplished with a simple setting in the Blackboard system. It can be manually reversed by us or by you and everything will be as it was. This is unlike Phase 3 which cannot be undone.
I am trying to work from home but am having trouble connected to servers at UM. If you are trying to use Blackboard and the www.miami.edu/blackboard address doesn't work, you can try www.courses.miami.edu or http://miami6.blackboard.com since they are other names for the same system.
I have no idea what the problem is, only that I can get to Blackboard, from home, using the latter two addresses but not the former.
Bill Vilberg
