Stony Brook email should be going to Yahoo addresses again. Any messages sent between 10/10 and today may not have gone through, so check with your professors and classmates and make sure you didn’t miss anything.
The other big email systems (Gmail, Hotmail, Optonline, and AOL) were unaffected.
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Yahoo block has been lifted on SB email
Stony Brook email is being blocked by Yahoo!
If you have specified a Yahoo address as your e-mail in Blackboard, please know that as of Friday, October 10th, sometime after 5pm, Yahoo began blocking mail sent from Stony Brook.
Until the problem is resolved, Yahoo users may not receive messages sent through Blackboard.
Please specify a different e-mail address in the system.
Our systems staff is […]
SafeAssign problems in SINC sites: Resolved!
The SafeAssign issues surrounding the uploading of files from MySBfiles in SINC sites has been resolved for the most part. If you or your students continue to have problems, please contact us at blackboard @ stonybrook.edu or 631-632-2777 and include the following information:
Which SINC site the problem occurred in
Which browser was used (Internet Explorer, Firefox, […]
Blackboard workshops scheduled for October 2008!
The Blackboard Support Team has planned numerous workshops for October 2008. Please consider coming by and preparing for your upcoming courses!
Topics include:
- Basics/Posting Content
- Blogs & Wikis
- Tests & Surveys
- Assignment Tools
- Blackboard Tools
- Gradebook
- and more!
For more information, and to register: http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Ic/Classes
Space is limited!
SafeAssign upgrade is live!
The SafeAssign upgrade described here has been tested and was put into production this morning. All new and existing SafeAssignments can now accept Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) and Open Office (.odt) documents.
Please be advised that the following text still appears beneath SafeAssignments created before the upgrade.
NOTE: Do not type your assignment into the Comments box. […]
SafeAssign problems in SINC sites
It’s come to our attention that there have been issues submitting to SafeAssign from MySBfiles in SINC sites. We’ve compiled a handy list of operating system/browser combinations to help you submit your papers while we look into fixes.
Windows XP: Internet Explorer
Submitting from MySBfiles: Error message, "Invalid file location."
- Solution: Copy the file from MySBfiles to […]
SafeAssign update
Thank you for your patience regarding Saturday’s SafeAssign outage. The upgrade was successful, but the new features detailed in the previous announcement have not been implemented yet. We’re currently working on installing and testing these new features. Please continue to use SafeAssign as you have been, and we will announce when the new features are […]