The following message was sent from Ray Henderson, President of Blackboard Learn:
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I am delighted to announce the opening of the 2010 Blackboard Exemplary Course Program. Consider submitting your course for review or participating as a volunteer course reviewer. Participants in the program will:
Learn course design best practices
Develop ideas and inspiration from reviewing courses from their own [...]
Below is a message from Stony Brook University’s CIO, Richard W. Reeder. If you receive an email asking for passwords of any kind, DO NOT RESPOND! Instead, forward the email to abuse@stonybrook.edu and move it to your junk folder.
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To The Campus Community,
Recently there has been a new wave of ‘Phishing’ emails directed to members of this University.
As with [...]
Blackboard experienced an unscheduled outage around 8:00PM on Tuesday, October 27. The outage lasted about 25 minutes. Apologies for the inconvenience.
If you taught a course in 2006 and used Blackboard, please read this important announcement!
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In order to conserve space on our servers, we are deleting all Blackboard courses from 2006 on Friday, November 27, 2009.
The only exceptions are:
1. Courses needed for department accreditation review.
2. Courses taught by instructors who are being reviewed for tenure.
If you [...]
If you taught a Winter, Spring, or Summer 2009 course and used Blackboard, please read this important announcement carefully!
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On Wednesday, November 18, 2009, we will be deleting all rosters from Winter, Spring, and Summer 2009 Blackboard courses.
If your course falls into either of the following categories, you MUST fill out a request form prior to [...]
On the heels of today’s release of Windows 7, here is a summary of its compatibility with Blackboard.
Blackboard has been testing the main components of its products in Windows 7, and has announced that they are provisionally supported in Windows 7. That means that the system should work overall, but some components may be problematic. Blackboard [...]
http://it.cc.stonybrook.edu/news/509
SOLAR will be down for maintenance from Friday 10/16 at 2PM until Sunday 10/18 at 6PM.
Make sure your NetID password is up to date. If it’s set to expire this weekend, change it now so you don’t get locked out of Blackboard, MySBmail, and other services requiring NetID!
Posted 10/10/2009
https://behind.blackboard.com/Support/Bulletins/?NewsItemID=1365
We are pleased to announce that Blackboard SafeAssign, Blackboard Sync and Blackboard Scholar have successfully undergone maintenance.
Updated hardware and network infrastructure
Increased capacity for all of these services
Improved performance of these applications
Increased stability
Thank you for your patience.
https://behind.blackboard.com/Support/Bulletins/?NewsItemID=1360
SafeAssign will have intermittent outages starting the morning of Saturday, October 10 and ending the morning of Sunday, October 11 as Blackboard performs maintenance. Please plan accordingly.
SafeAssign and Scholar will be down for scheduled maintenance on Friday, October 23 from 2:00AM until 6:00AM. Services will be completely inaccessible. Students will not be able to submit SafeAssignments and instructors will not be able to create or check SafeAssignments during this time period. The rest of Blackboard should remain unaffected.