[BB] Blackboard training

Hello Bb Users,

 

We have two blackboard training coming up this month and if you are interested space is still available. The dates are:

 

Tuesday November 16^th, 2010

Introduction to Blackboard

10am – 11am

Richter Library room 305

 

Monday November 29^th, 2010

Grade Center training

10am – 11am

Richter Library room 305

 

To check for future trainings and to register please go to www.iacevents.org

 

Thank you,

 

Rick Ramos

Blackboard Help Desk Supervisor

305-284-3949

 

 

 

[BB] Archiving & Removing '07-'08 Bb Courses

Bb Users,

 

It is time to start the annual archival/removal of old courses from Blackboard.

 

Every year we archive and remove old courses. This time we will be removing the 2007-2008 (Fall 2007 – Summer 2008) courses from the Blackboard system (ending with 080, 081, 082, 083, 084). Courses from the 2008-2009 (090-094) school year will be made unavailable to students, but will still be accessible to faculty for another year. You can find your old courses in Blackboard by going to the Courses tab.

 

I will begin disabling these courses so that they can be archived and removed on Monday, November 22.

 

Attached is a document that explains how to archive and save your courses to your computer or disk if you would like to maintain your own archive. (We maintain an archive at the Instructional Advancement Center.)

 

QUESTIONS:

1. WHAT IS ARCHIVING?
   Archiving means we take your entire course and save it to a disk. Then we remove it from the Blackboard system. If we ever need to restore the course, we can, but it may take a while for me to dig it out of the archive since we maintain over 100,000 courses.
2. CAN YOU ARCHIVE AND SAVE YOUR OWN COURSE?
   Yes, you can! Attached is a document that explains how to archive your course and how to download a great tool that will make navigating archived courses easier. You can also access these instructions through the Support tab in Blackboard.

 

If you need any more information, please let me know or open a ticket: Blackboard Help Desk.

 

Best wishes for a smooth end-of-the-semester/year,

Jennifer

 

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JENNIFER CLISTER Blackboard System Manager University of Miami IAC 305-284-3949

 

[BB] Blackboard Updates: Maintenance, Slow SafeAssign

Bb Users,

 

On Friday morning from 2am-6am, Blackboard will be doing some preventative maintenance which *could* impact service intermittently during that time. Please plan accordingly.

 

Just a reminder, Safe Assignment is slow this time of year. They are experiencing very high traffic, and it could take longer than usual to generate the Safe Assignment reports.

 

Thank you for your patience.

 

-Jennifer

 

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JENNIFER CLISTER Blackboard System Manager University of Miami IAC 305-284-3949