Blackboard will perform emergency data center maintenance on Wednesday, June 9. Two hours of downtime can be expected between the hours of 1:00am and 5:00am. Please contact cit@ua.edu if you have questions or need instructional technology assistance.
Blackboard Learn is moving to the cloud August 5 – 13. In August, UA’s instance of Blackboard Learn will move from being hosted in Blackboard’s data centers to being hosted in the cloud, a hosting strategy otherwise known as software as a service (SaaS). Moving to SaaS allows for flexibility, scalability, resilience and innovation. Flexibility…
6/21: As of June 19, this issue should be resolved with a minor Chrome update. 6/7: Chrome (version 91) and Edge users may be continuously prompted to login to Blackboard when using Panopto. While a permanent solution is investigated, the current workaround is to use another browser such as Firefox. For further assistance, please contact…
Effective June 26 Internet Explorer 11 will no longer be supported by Panopto. This means that Panopto will no longer fix any issues that users experience while using Panopto on IE11. Users on IE11 will see a message requiring that they upgrade to Microsoft Edge, or another modern browser, in order to continue to use…
If you set up a Final column in your Blackboard Learn grade center and some or all of your grades do not import to myBama using the Import Grades from Blackboard button, make sure all students in your Blackboard grade center have an assigned grade. This grade may be entered manually if it is a…
Zoom regularly updates its software with security enhancements and new features! In the latest release, Zoom offers enhanced screen annotation for Zoom meetings, whiteboard auto-shapes on Zoom’s mobile application, and more emoji options for meeting reactions. Another fun new feature: Immersive View. Be “together” with your class or colleagues, from a distance. Individuals can enable…
Save the Date, Aug. 5 – 13 Blackboard Learn is moving to the cloud! Blackboard Learn will be unavailable during the cloud migration. More information about the migration is available in our first announcement. Our teams are currently testing the platform, and we’re excited to release more information to you as it becomes available. Stay…
University of Alabama has a Gradescope license available for all faculty to use and is integrated with Blackboard Learn. If you aren’t yet using Gradescope to collect and grade assessments, we invite you to try it out in your courses. Gradescope recently hosted its Gradescope User Summit. Instructors presented on a variety of topics including:…
When accessing My Grades as a student in the Blackboard app, assignments, tests, discussion boards, etc will not show if they are made unavailable.The points awarded for the Test still count toward the student’s total grade. When accessing My Grades from a web browser, the student can view their grade, attempt, and written feedback from the instructor…
Faculty Roundtable – A Year in Review Join the CIT for a faculty roundtable to share your experiences teaching in the 2020-2021 academic year. Let’s learn from one another. What worked? What didn’t? Share strategies that you successfully implemented in the classroom – whatever that looked like for you. Join us to share it all;…
