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Resolved: Emergency Turnitin Maintenance

Turnitin is currently undergoing Emergency Maintenance. The Turnitin integration in Blackboard may be intermittent or inaccessible during this period. See more about the status of this issue: https://turnitin.statuspage.io/incidents/36xnw1xg8smx Update 1:28 PM CST 3/12: Emergency Maintenance is complete. For all customers using Turnitin Feedback Studio, we have restored the ability to submit papers and view similarity…


Resolved: Users Unable to Submit or View Similarity Reports in Turnitin

Turnitin users are currently experiencing an unexpected service disruption when viewing similarity/originality reports. During this time, users  may find they are unable to make a submission or view their Similarity Report.  For updates on this Turnitin issue: https://turnitin.statuspage.io/incidents/1kg2yx4bffn6 Resolved by Turnitin March 1 – Reported outage duration, March 1 9:00 am – 1:00 pm CST


Instructional Tech News – March 1, 2021

Midterm Grades due March 5 at Midnight Midterm grades are due 3/5 at 11:59 p.m. Instructors are required to submit midterm grades for all 100- and 200-level courses. Midterm grading should be used to submit grades assigned for non-attendance. Helpful Grading Info Importing Final and Midterm Grades from Blackboard into MyBama Assigning Non-Attendance Grade Reason…


Sporadic Issues Viewing Peermark Feedback

Some instructors and students are facing sporadic issues navigating to and viewing Peermark reviews in Turnitin. Users unable to view or navigate between peer reviews. Please ensure you are accessing feedback correctly (feedback how-to video for students here) and contact us if the reviews are still unavailable.


Instructional Tech News – Feb. 23

Customizing the Blackboard Grade Center Need to align your Grade Center with your course syllabus? Learn how to create columns, weight grades, and adjust your schema with CIT’s Blackboard Advanced: Setting Up the Grade Center YouTube video. Midterm Grades due March 5 at Midnight Midterm grades are due 3/5 at 11:59 p.m. Instructors are required…


Resolved: Blackboard Learn Channel in MyBama not opening courses

Resolved: The Blackboard Learn course list in myBama is not currently directing users to Blackboard successfully. To access Blackboard Learn courses from myBama, select More at the top of the screen and choose Blackboard. Users can also log in to Blackboard Learn directly at ualearn.blackboard.com using myBama credentials.  


UPDATE CHROME: Chrome is 16 hours behind computer’s time

Dates and times Chrome displays on websites may not match your local clock. This bug apparently has been resolved with the newest version of Chrome. Please update the browser to avoid any issues with incorrect dates/times.


Possible Collaborate Ultra Downtime – Early AM 2/19, 2/25, 2/26, 3/5

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra will be performing scheduled infrastructure maintenance during the times listed below. February 19, 2021 1:00 AM – 5:00 AM CST February 25, 2021 1:00 AM-  5:00 AM CST **expect intermittent availability** February 26, 2021 1:00 AM – 5:00 AM CST March 5, 2021 1:00 AM – 5:00 AM CST While we anticipate…


Scheduled Maintenance 2/13: Video Feedback in Blackboard Assignment Grading

Scheduled Maintenance, February 13, 2021: Video Recording Feedback in Blackboard Learn Assignment Grading Instructors can record video feedback to students as they are grading assignments in Learn courses. This recording feature is provided by some subcomponents of Blackboard Collaborate. Those components require maintenance over a window of a maximum of 3 hours on Saturday, February…


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