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.…
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…
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…
Update 01/27/2022 12:15 p.m.: Demo Student users have been enabled across UA’s Blackboard Learn production environment (ualearn.blackboard.com). CIT has learned that, in some Spring 2022 courses, the demo user or Student View is not functioning correctly. Instructors who receive an error or encounter other issues when attempting to access Student View or the Demo Student…
Update 01/27/2022 1:30 p.m.: From Blackboard: With the Learn SaaS 3900.30.0 Maintenance Release to Production environments we have resolved this incident. Related Blackboard status Incident Report: Learn Partner Cloud / LTI Tools Issue Blackboard has identified an issue affecting LTI tool and Partner Cloud integrations, such as Pearson REVEL and Turnitin. A maintenance update is…
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…
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…
