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Bb course shells for SU 2011 were created on April 19, and will continue to be updated daily. Bb shells were created for all courses (designated as lecture, lab, or discussion) listed in the UMBC...

Full Title: Known Issue: "Not Enough Space on Disk" Error Message (RESOLVED)At approximately 10 am, Friday, April 15, DoIT staff received multiple reports from both faculty and students of a "not...

Full Title: Blackboard Down for Extended Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 3/18 to 10 am Sat. 3/19As a part of DoIT's regular scheduled maintenance, Blackboard will be down for an extended time on...

Full Title: IHE Journal Publishes Article on Check My Activity Tool for StudentsThe Internet and Higher Education has published an article about UMBC's Check My Activity (CMA) tool for students in...

As part of DoIT's regular scheduled maintenance window, Blackboard will be down next Friday, February 11 (10 p.m.) to Saturday, February 12 (1 a.m.) to address abnormal database utilization...

Full Title: Educause Publishes Video Demo of UMBC "Check My Activity" Tool for Students The final 2010 issue of EDUCAUSE Quarterly includes a brief (5 minute) video demo of UMBC's "Check My...

Students must be officially registered in a UMBC course via myUMBC in order to be auto enrolled in a Bb course shell. Auto enrollment takes place multiple times daily, so students will appear in...

The auto enrollment script that takes students who are officially enrolled in SA and places them into the corresponding Blackboard course shell stopped working on Thursday, Jan. 13. It was...

As I announced this past summer, DoIT is no longer using Presidium Learning for Blackboard faculty support (it is intended only for 24/7 support of students). Instead, DoIT's Help Desk and...

DoIT has confirmed a known issue that affects faculty trying to export an old Blackboard course and import it into a new, empty shell: The export works fine, but if the resulting file is larger...