[BB] Blackboard is now upgraded to Service Pack 14!

Dear Blackboard Users,

 

The Blackboard system was upgraded to Service Pack 14. You may need to restart your browser if you don't get to the login page.

 

Here are a few valuable resources to familiarize yourself with the new Blackboard Learn features and be ready to integrate them in your instruction:

·       On-Demand Learning Center: free access to video tutorials and getting started guides

·       Feature Showcase: review all of the new features

·       Help.Blackboard.com: assistance using the new Blackboard Learn platform, organized by role

·       Educator Cohort: series of online meetings to familiarize educators with new features 

 

In addition, The UMIT Learning Platforms team has scheduled workshops and online training classes for faculty, instructors, and their assistants. Please click here for more information: http://www.iacevents.org/.

 

If you have questions or concerns about these upcoming changes, please contact the Blackboard team at: (305) 284-3949 or blackboardhelp@miami.edu. 

 

Sincerely,

 

Your Blackboard team

[BB] Blackboard upgrade to SP14

Dear Blackboard Users,

 

We will be upgrading to the latest version of Blackboard Learn™, Service Pack 14, on Wednesday December 25^th 2013 starting at 2:30 p.m. The system will be unavailable due to the upgrade and will be available again at noon on Thursday December 26^th 2013 (please note that no action will be required from you for this upgrade as it will be completed automatically).

 

Many existing features have been improved and some exciting new features added to make your day more efficient. Here is an overview of tools that you can expect to be using soon:

 

• Achievements: The Achievements tool allows instructors and course designers to designate criteria for issuing rewards to students in the form of both Badges and Certificates.

 

• Course Messages Notifications: Course messages are private and secure text-based communication that occurs within a course and among course members. Although similar to email, you must be logged into a course to read and send course messages.

 

• Date Management: After instructors have copied a course, they can speed up the transition of old dates to new ones relevant for the new course using Date Management. From Date Management, instructors can adjust all availability dates, due dates, and adaptive release dates.

 

• Grade Center Improvements: Blackboard has made several improvements to grading and Grade Center in Service Pack 14.

 

• Groups Management: Blackboard has improved the management of groups within the course site.

 

• Inline Grading: Instructors have a consistent grading sidebar within assignments, blogs, discussions, journals, and wikis. This grading sidebar allows them to grade a submission, post, and entry without leaving the page.

 

• Test IP Address Filtering: As a way to prevent cheating and secure high stakes tests, Blackboard Learn Service Pack 14 is introducing Test IP address filtering to enforce location restrictions specified by administrators to correspond to specified IP addresses or IP ranges. This can limit the computers that have access to certain tests to a testing lab for example or other location that can be monitored or proctored.

 

Here are a few valuable resources to familiarize yourself with the new Blackboard Learn features and be ready to integrate them in your instruction:

 

• On-Demand Learning Center: free access to video tutorials and getting started guides
• Feature Showcase: review all of the new features
• Help.Blackboard.com: assistance using the new Blackboard Learn platform, organized by role
• Educator Cohort: series of online meetings to familiarize educators with new features

 

In addition, the Learning Platforms Team has scheduled workshops and online training classes. Please click here for more information: http://www.iacmiami.org/.

 

If you have questions or concerns about these upcoming changes, please contact the Blackboard team at: (305) 284-3949 or blackboardhelp@miami.edu.

 

Regards,

 

Your Blackboard Team

(P): 305-284-3949

 

 

[BB] Spring 2014 Course sites available

Hello Blackboard Users,

 

The course sites for Spring 2014 are have been created in Blackboard. To see your Spring 2014 course sites, click on the "Courses" tab in Blackboard.

 

The course sites are unavailable to the students. When you are ready for the students to access your course site, follow the simple instructions or watch the video at the following link: http://blackboardinfo.weebly.com/1/post/2013/08/course-sites-are-created-unavailable.html.

 

If you have questions or concerns, please email the Blackboard Help Desk at blackboardhelp@miami.edu, or call 305-284-3949 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

 

Sincerely,

 

Your Blackboard Team

(P): 305-284-3949

 

 

Re: [BB] Viewing/downloading student UMIDs and IDs from CaneLink in Blackboard.

It will be nicer (and I think more helpful) if you can have their pictures posted on Bb

Take care

R. Lask

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From: UM Blackboard Announcements [BB@LISTSERV.MIAMI.EDU] on behalf of Ramos, Ricardo [r.ramos3@MIAMI.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 10:49 AM
To: BB@LISTSERV.MIAMI.EDU
Subject: [BB] Viewing/downloading student UMIDs and IDs from CaneLink in Blackboard.

Hello Blackboard User,

 

We recently changed the Student ID in the Blackboard Grade Center to the ID from CaneLink. This change will now allow you to identify Blackboard students in CaneLink.

 

The grade center column Student ID will hold the ID from CaneLink:

 

 

 

For additional information about exporting this data to an Excel spreadsheet, go to http://blackboardinfo.weebly.com/1/post/2013/12/downloading-umid-and-emplidid-from-canelink.html.

 

If you have questions or concerns about these upcoming changes, please contact the Blackboard team at: (305) 284-3949 or blackboardhelp@miami.edu. 

 

Sincerely,

 

Your Blackboard team

(P): 305-284-3949

 

 

 

[BB] Viewing/downloading student UMIDs and IDs from CaneLink in Blackboard.

Hello Blackboard User,

 

We recently changed the Student ID in the Blackboard Grade Center to the ID from CaneLink. This change will now allow you to identify Blackboard students in CaneLink.

 

The grade center column Student ID will hold the ID from CaneLink:

 

 

For additional information about exporting this data to an Excel spreadsheet, go to http://blackboardinfo.weebly.com/1/post/2013/12/downloading-umid-and-emplidid-from-canelink.html.

 

If you have questions or concerns about these upcoming changes, please contact the Blackboard team at: (305) 284-3949 or blackboardhelp@miami.edu. 

 

Sincerely,

 

Your Blackboard team

(P): 305-284-3949

 

 

[BB] ID from CaneLink will be added to Blackboard

Dear Blackboard Users,

 

The Student ID in the Blackboard Grade Center is being changed to the ID from CaneLink. Once this is done, Faculty will have an easy way to match students in CaneLink and Blackboard.

 

If you have questions or concerns about these upcoming changes, please contact the Blackboard team at: (305) 284-3949 or blackboardhelp@miami.edu. 

 

Sincerely,

 

Your Blackboard team

(P): 305-284-3949

[BB] Uploading (Midterm) Grades to Blackboard

Blackboard mailing list members,

[Please share this information in your department and with your colleagues. Some of them may find Blackboard useful for posting grades, during this time after MyUM is gone and before CaneLink gets a feature to upload grades.]

In order to assist faculty in distributing grades to students, we have documented the simple procedure to upload a spreadsheet of grades to the Blackboard system. We have created a web page with the brief instructions, and a short video demonstration. 

http://blackboardinfo.weebly.com/1/post/2013/10/uploading-midterm-grades-to-blackboard.html

If you have any questions about this process, or anything else related to Blackboard, please contact the Blackboard Help Desk at either blackboardhelp@miami.edu or 305-284-3949 (8-3949 on campus).

 - Bill - 

WIlliam Vilberg

Director

Information Technology

University of Miami

P: (305) 284-3944

C: (786) 250-2255

[BB] Blackboard notification

Dear Blackboard Users,
 
Blackboard is now operating normally. Blackboard engineers are trying to determine the root cause of today's problem to prevent this from occurring again. We will let you know as we get further information.
 
We apologize for the inconvenience,
 
Thanks,
 
Rick Ramos

Help Desk Supervisor

(P): 305-284-3949

[BB] blackboard performances issues

Dear Blackboard users,

 

Blackboard is experiencing some performances issues at this moment. We are working on the issue and hope to get it fixed as soon as possible.

 

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience,

 

Thanks,

 

Rick Ramos

Help Desk Supervisor

(P): 305-284-3949

 

 

[BB] Blackboard is now available

Dear Blackboard Users.

 

Blackboard is now available.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

 

Rick Ramos

Help Desk Supervisor

(P): 305-284-3949

 

 

[BB] Blackboard unavailable

Dear Blackboard Users,

 

The Blackboard system is currently unavailable again today. We will keep you informed as soon as the service is restored

 

We apologize for the inconvenience.

 

Sincerely,

 

Rick Ramos

Help Desk Supervisor

(P): 305-284-3949

 

 

[BB] Blackboard Header

Dear Blackboard Users,

 

In our desire to improve the look of Blackboard, we will be changing the header today. We wanted to inform you of the change before it happened.

 

Rick Ramos

Help Desk Supervisor

(P): 305-284-3949

 

 

[BB] Blackboard is back up

Dear Blackboard users,

 

Blackboard is now up and running.

 

If you have any other issues please call us at 305-284-3949 during business hours Monday to Friday from 9 am to 5 pm or email at blackboardhelp@miami.edu.

 

Thanks,

 

Rick Ramos

Help Desk Supervisor

(P): 305-284-3949