Learning Management Systems

The Blackboard outage for Sunday, Nov. 22nd from 6:00 AM - 8:00 AM has been canceled.

Sunday we had a short maintenance outage of the Blackboard. At that time we were able to fix a couple of problem.

1. The Visual Text Editor Box will no longer obscure questions.
2. WebDAV for the Content Collection is fully functional with both Mac and Windows.

When creating an item in Blackboard with a time/date restriction you must have both a start and end date. If not you will not be able to edit the item.

Here is an explanation and a way around the Date Restriction problem:
Error when attempting to edit test options with Display Until date in Blackboard 9

Courses.smu.edu is generally open 24 hours a day, every day. Courses.smu.edu may be unavailable Sunday mornings from 6:00 AM to 9:00 AM for system maintenance. Scheduled outages will appear in the courses.smu.edu System Announcements.

All courses are populated with the current rosters from Access.SMU

To list the enrollment in a Bb course you must type the "wild-card" % in the search field.

Here are the steps: Control Panel > Users and Groups > Users > type a % (percent sign) into the search field > Click Go.

If you need to add a student click the blue  Enroll User  button above the Search area of the User screen.

If you are working anywhere in Bb and switch the Visual Editor (Text box) off the page will refresh and all work on that page is lost. This is very important when taking test in Bb.