As part of UA’s transition to Blackboard Ultra base navigation, we are making some changes to course term set up to show upcoming and current courses accurately. While these changes are underway, course lists may not show as expected. To find courses from another semester, click on Current Courses at the top of your course…
Hello instructors, We’re in the home stretch! This is Melissa from The Center for Instructional Technology with some news and tips for this final week of fall semester classes. Zoom Log in – Change to Log in with SSO UA Zoom users should now log into Zoom through single sign-on using their myBama credentials rather…
As of November 23, 2021, some users may see courses from the fall 2018 term in their Blackboard Learn course list. These may include dropped courses and may temporarily produce notifications to users, which can be ignored. Students’ Fall 2018 courses will be removed from the course list in the coming weeks.
Update 1/27 1:00 PM: In addition to the previously suggested solutions, Edge users may also disable the Open Office files in-browser option. Here’s how: Open the Edge browser. Select Settings and more (three dots to the right of the address bar) > Settings > Downloads. On the Downloads settings page, set Open Office files in…
Hello instructors, Melissa from The Center for Instructional Technology here with some early November news and tips. Email Address in Blackboard Students who are also employees have both @ua and @crimson email addresses. These students can now specify which address they would like to use for Blackboard Learn communications. Students should use their @crimson email addresses for all academic and student-related communications. Additional information and…
Pearson will perform scheduled maintenance on Saturday, November 20, 12:00 – 8:00 a.m.. Students will be unable to access Blackboard Learn-integrated Pearson content during the entire maintenance window, including all MyLab, Mastering and MyLabsPlus, Enhanced Revel, MyEnglishLab, and Pearson English Portal content. Additional information is available via the Pearson System Status webpage.
From Blackboard: Collaborate – Low speaker volume in Collaborate when using iOS 15 and Safari 15 Date Published: Nov 08, 2021 Category: Product:Known Issues & Error Messages; Version:Web Conferencing Article No.: 000076023 Product: Collaborate Service Pack(s): Web Conferencing Description: Collaborate users on iOS 15 and Safari 15 are experiencing low speaker volume that may make…
Some UA users may have been unable to log into Turnitin Monday, November 8, 7:43 PM – Tuesday, November 9, 6:01 AM. Turnitin has resolved this issue. Real-time information about Turnitin status, as well as updates about schedules maintenance and past incidents, is available on the Turnitin status page. From Turnitin: We’ve fixed it! Due…
RESOLVED – 10:22 AM – Blackboard has applied a fix to resolve the performance issues for UA. Users still experiencing slowness should clear the browser cache and report remaining problems to cit@ua.edu. Root cause analysis will be shared as soon as available. Blackboard Learn is having slowness and performance issues when accessing the site, beginning…
Students who are also employees have both @ua and @crimson email addresses. Users can now define which of their official UA email addresses (must be @ua.edu or @crimson.ua.edu) are used for Blackboard Learn communications. To determine which email is being used within Blackboard Learn, you can check your profile in Blackboard. After logging in, click…
