SafeAssign services are currently unavailable due to unscheduled maintenance to address the latest high loads. The affected services will be restored by March 26, 2009 at 2:00PM or earlier. Blackboard regrets any inconvenience this may cause and appreciates your understanding of the need to perform this system maintenance.
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This bug only applies to SafeAssignments that were copied from an older course into Spring 2009 courses. If you created all new SafeAssignments in your Spring 2009 course, this does not apply to you.
We’ve just been made aware of a significant bug in SafeAssignments that have been copied from an older class into Spring 2009.
If [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
SafeAssign will be unavailable while undergoing maintenance THIS SATURDAY, September 27. This maintenance window is part of an update which will include the following improvements:
Support for Microsoft Office 2007 (.docx) and OpenOffice (.odt) word processing documents
Support for use of SafeAssign in Blackboard Community SystemTM Organizations
Stability enhancements
Bug fixes
The system is expected to be intermittently unavailable during [...]
If you are using SafeAssign in your courses, you may have noticed a significant lag in processing SA Reports. It normally takes up to 20 minutes during peak times to process submissions, but some papers have been in the system since Tuesday have not yet been processed.
We contacted Blackboard about this, and received the following [...]
SafeAssign will be unavailable while undergoing maintenance on Saturday, September 27. This maintenance window is part of an update which will include the following improvements:
Support for Microsoft Office 2007 (.docx) and OpenOffice (.odt) word processing documents
Support for use of SafeAssign in Blackboard Community SystemTM Organizations
Stability enhancements
Bug fixes
The system is expected to be intermittently unavailable from [...]
SafeAssign has returned to service. Many apologies for the inconvenience!