Blackboard 8

How do I hide student grades? An alternative

Allison — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:55:04 +0000

Back in July, I wrote a post on how to make students’ grades unavailable while you’re updating them. But what if you’d like students to see their scores for individual assignments, but hide the final grade column until after you’ve submitted your grades? Today, I present you with steps to hide an individual column in Grade Center from students.

In Grade Center, click the double-chevron symbol and select Modify Column.

Scroll down to Step 4, Options.

Select No next to Show this column in My Grades.

And there you have it. Students won’t see the weighted total (or the column you’d like hidden) until you change that radio button to a yes.

Problem Uploading Files Using Firefox 3.5.x ?

fhagemei — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:33:44 +0000

Some students have reported seeing error messages when trying to upload files to a Blackboard assignment using Firefox version 3.5.x. Information Services is working with Blackboard to obtain a fix for this problem and that fix should be available sometime Monday, September 21. The problem also seems to affect some sub-versions of Internet Explorer 7 and 8. For the short term, Blackboard users are asked to try a different web browser among Firefox, Safari (Mac), and Internet Explorer (Chrome, Opera, and Safari for Windows are not supported on Blackboard).

Update: a patch was installed Friday at 7:30pm that should eliminate this problem for supported browsers.

Timed-test issue fixed

Allison — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:59:11 +0000

The timed-test issue, which caused the timer to hide the Submit button while taking a test in IE 8, has been fixed! Feel free to use IE 8 while taking a timed test in Blackboard.