Blackboard Course Availability

Currently there is a technical problem causing courses previous to Fall 2011 to be unavailable to Instructors - don't fret, they are not gone and we are working diligently to restore them.

If you have any questions please call Blackboard Admin Ricki Lee Hodges at ext, 41851.

Emergency Upgrade: Expo LX

ALL USERS:

If you had any Campus Pack content (Wiki, Blog, Podcast) that was the old version, before this summer's upgrade, it is currently being upgraded and will be unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience, they will be available again in a few hours.

Again, this only affects the old version of Campus Pack materials, anything created new since Summer 2010 is available.

Campus Pack Update

Campus Pack Update:

Over the holiday break, on Wednesday December 29, our version of Campus Pack (which includes Blogs, Wiki, Podcast, Journal) will be updated to include new features. These features include:

• Batch Creation of Content : Instructors no longer need to manually create individual and group assignments (for example, Class Journal/Response or Wikis) one-at-a-time. This will allow a batch creation of all of them at once instead.
  
  
• Authenticated RSS Feeds: Campus Pack 4.4 will support RSS everywhere. The authenticated RSS feature enables RSS access to all content in Campus Pack, whether public to the world or shared privately to a limited audience.

Next week we will receive more information about the exact times the upgrade will occur, and testing the changes and will post them here. Stay tuned.

Blackboard Test Issue Resolved

As of 8:50 p.m., tests are back up and running. Thank you for your patience as we worked to fix the issue.

Blackboard Test/Quiz Issue - 11/01/2010

UPDATE: As of 6 p.m. Central time, the Test/Quiz feature on Blackboard is still not functioning. The Bb Team is still working to correct the problem.



SHSU Blackboard is currently experiencing issues when trying to open Tests - this is the error received:

HTTP Status 404 - /webapps/bbgs-acxiom-bb_bb60/execute/acxiomGateway

---

type Status report

message /webapps/bbgs-acxiom-bb_bb60/execute/acxiomGateway

description The requested resource (/webapps/bbgs-acxiom-bb_bb60/execute/acxiomGateway) is not available.

---

Apache Tomcat/5.5.26

The Blackboard Team is working diligently on correcting the problem, and we will be sending out an e-mail to all faculty when it is resolved.

Having Trouble Accessing Blogs/Wikis/Podcast?

If you are receiving the message "This page contains secure and non-secure items.." or "Navigation Cancelled" try switching to the Firefox browser.

We have found an issue that is keeping some students from accessing the blogs and wikis, and are currently working on fixing it.

Blog/Wiki/Podcast Update - September 4, 2010

We are happy to announce Campus Pack 4.3 is coming soon!

Your Campus Pack service will be upgraded to Campus Pack 4.3 on Saturday, September 4 after 9:00 pm EST, during which time your service may be unavailable for a few minutes.

Email notifications: Users can subscribe to receive email notifications that provide a
summary of changes to the subscribed content. Course content recycle: Instructors can selectively delete student contributed content in
blogs and wikis that they have copied over from a previous semester. Voice recording for podcasts: Users can now record a podcast in their own voice from
inside Campus Pack. Widgets: Campus Pack provides even more flexibility for users with widgets.

• Add interactivity and engagement to a course with rating and voting widgets. Share content beyond the LMS with Facebook, Twitter, and other popular social networks using the AddThis widget.


• Comment sets can be added for public comments and/or private feedback between instructors and students.


• Categories and Tags, important Web 2.0 capabilities, can be internal for users and external for viewers to add input.