Blackboard updates have been completed, and Blackboard is again available.
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Blackboard is unavailable from Friday, December 18, 10pm until Saturday morning at approximately 4am. This outage is for a maintenance set of upgrades but will not result in new features or a change in the interface (so don’t worry). Please direct any questions or concerns to blackboard@richmond.edu .
With a planned upgrade to version 9 in the Summer of 2010, the UR community can expect many new features and an enhanced look and feel for their flagship course management system. Some of the principle additions are; a new course homepage, easier access to course tools and rapid reorganization of the menus without using the “control panel”, new options for self and peer-assessment, and simplified creation and management of groups within a course. Here is a sneak peak: http://www.blackboard.com/release9/
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.
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.