Blackboard will be down this evening at 8 p.m. for routine maintenance. It will be back up by Tuesday morning. Please plan accordingly.
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Blackboard will be down from 8 p.m. until about 11p.m. on Monday, March 8. We’ve scheduled the outage for spring break in an effort to minimally impact your courses. Please plan accordingly. Check this blog on Monday night for updates as to when Blackboard is back up.
Attention all UR Blackboard users: The Blackboard server is unavailable each day for a 15-minute window from sometime between 2:30 am and 3:30 am Perhaps you’re tucked safely in your beds by that point, but for the night owls out there, this announcement is important. The servers undergo nightly maintenance and are restarted during this window.
It is important to note that if people choose to use the system during that window, it is done at the risk of losing the work. Therefore, it is best not to create or take an assessment during that time or submit assignments; however, downloading a copy of the syllabus has little risk.
Thanks for your patience, and happy teaching, learning, and grading!
The Systems Administration team has corrected the “proxy error” that you were receiving when you attempted to click on your classes in Blackboard. You will now be able to access all of your course material in Blackboard. We’re very sorry for the inconvenience this has caused.
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.