Monthly Archives: March 2009

Blackboard and OASIS/Banner, a match made in heaven

By Glen Parker | Published: March 16, 2009
There are a couple of course roles available in Blackboard. I’ll do my best to explain them and how they come to pass at USF. The most privileged role is called Instructor. The Instructor role has full access to the course in Blackboard. They can change the roles(promote or demote) of other people [...]
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Instructor Tools: Get More Grade Center with FullScreen View

By Glen Parker | Published: March 10, 2009
The Blackboard Grade Center benefits from having a lot of vertical screen space in which to display rows of students. The web browser uses a lot of that space with tool bars, address bars, and other bars. In Windows, you can temporarily reclaim that space by going into FullScreen mode. In [...]
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Blackboard outage March 4th

By Glen Parker | Published: March 4, 2009
Update 1:31pm: Blackboard is back to full service levels. A system error occurred overnight March 4th resulting in Blackboard being completely unavailable from about 7:30-8:30am. Resolving the error introduced an instability in the shared file system that resulted in a bottleneck that backed everything up in Blackboard. The result was slow, spotty [...]
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