Blogboard @ SHSU

The Blackboard Faculty Support Blog at Sam Houston State University

Friday, August 27, 2010

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.



Friday, August 13, 2010

Having Test Troubles?

If you are trying to access an exam in Blackboard and receive the following error:

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


there is a database issue going on with Blackboard right now, and we are working diligently with Support to correct it.