Hello instructors, Melissa from The Center for Instructional Technology here with the latest instructional technology news. Midterm grades due March 4 at midnight Midterm grades are due Friday, 3/4 at 11:59 p.m. Instructors are required to submit midterm grades for all 100- and 200-level courses, as well as grades for non-attendance. Midterm grading should be used to…
An upcoming change to Blackboard Learn will impact export and archive packages created within a Blackboard Learn course. Course packages created after the March 3, 2022 upgrade will expire and auto-delete 30 days after the creation date. Existing user-generated course packages will be set to expire in 90 days from the March 3, 2022 upgrade.…
From Blackboard: Feb 24, 14:08 EST Scheduled – Blackboard will be deploying our Collaborate v22.04 release to the US region (https://us.bbcollab.com), hosted in AWS (US – Virginia): us-east-1. Start Time: Thursday, March 10, 2022 2:00 AM EST (Eastern Standard Time) UTC/GMT -5 hours End Time: Thursday, March 10, 2022 6:00 AM EST (Eastern Standard Time)…
Hello instructors, Melissa from The Center for Instructional Technology here with some instructional technology news and tips. Learning ePortfolios in the Classroom: A Panel Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2022, 2:00-3:30 pm Location: Lackey Room, Bryant Conference Center This professional development session, brought to you by The College of Continuing Studies and The Center for Instructional Technology,…
The LastPass browser extension may incorrectly autofill fields and generate passwords when editing Test Options in Blackboard Learn. LastPass suggests editing settings for Blackboard in your LastPass vault if you encounter this issue: Go to lastpass.com and log in. Go to Passwords Hover over Blackboard tile and click wrench icon to edit settings Click Advanced…
Update 02/18/2022 10 a.m.: Blackboard has resolved this issue. CIT has learned that Blackboard is monitoring an issue with Blackboard Ally for LMS that was preventing the processing of new content added to Learn courses. The issue has been addressed, but delays may continue until February 4. From Blackboard: Ally – US-EAST-1 – Degraded Performance…
CIT has been informed that Blackboard will perform critical maintenance tonight, Wed., Feb. 2, 11:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. Central. This maintenance could affect the availability and/or performance of some Blackboard Learn Integrations and third-party tools. From Blackboard: Due to an unprecedented increase in usage, Blackboard will be performing database scaling to improve performance for…
Update 02/11/2022 10 a.m.: CIT has resolved this issue. Users may need to clear cache and cookies to apply the change. If the issue persists, contact cit@ua.edu. Students may receive an error message (filesys.err.dir.attempt) when attempting to view Turnitin submissions from My Grades. Until this issue is resolved, papers can be viewed from the assignment…
From Blackboard: Collaborate (US) Impacting Maintenance Feb 10, 02:00-06:00 EST Blackboard will be deploying our Collaborate v22.02 release to the US region (https://us.bbcollab.com), hosted in AWS (US – Virginia): us-east-1. Start Time: Thursday, February 10, 2022 2:00 AM EST (Eastern Standard Time) UTC/GMT -5 hours End Time: Thursday, February 10, 2022 6:00 AM EST (Eastern…
Hello instructors, Melissa from The Center for Instructional Technology here! I hope your semester is off to a successful and healthy start. I have a few updates to share. New Support Portal CIT is thrilled to share our new online support portal is now live! Members of the UA community are encouraged to use the…
