SafeAssign is currently not accepting PDFs generated by Adobe Acrobat Professional 9.0.0 or any more recent versions (9.1.2 is most recent). We have reported this issue to Blackboard and are awaiting a response.
In the meantime, if you are running Acrobat 9:
do not convert your documents to PDFs using Acrobat 9. SafeAssign accepts Word documents (.doc [...]
If you use Blackboard and Firefox on a Windows computer, do not upgrade to Firefox 3.5.
When submitting an Assignment with a file attached, an error will appear asking to "Please enter a valid file." Blackboard has been notified of this issue, but until they provide us with a fix, please either refrain from upgrading [...]
TLT’s Blackboard workshop series for June 2009 wrapped up this morning. We had 21 attendees from several sections of campus. Thank you to all who participated and made this series a success!
If you were unable to attend our June workshops, we’re starting a new round on July 14, meeting at 4PM weekdays. Register now, space [...]
If you are using the Assignment tool in your Blackboard class, you may be familiar with the Item Download feature, which allows you to download all student submissions to your computer in a ZIP file.
We are currently experiencing a small bug with this feature which is converting spaces in Assignment titles (example: Midterm Assignment) to [...]