Posted
November 20, 2009
IS has recently updated the Blackboard course management system to include the Blackboard Content Manager. The Content Manager allows faculty, staff and students to store material online. You can continue to use Blackboard as you have in the past, but you are welcome to try some of the new features.
Some uses for the Blackboard Content Manager:
Group file exchange: a course folder can be set up to allow all members of the course to add or modify files.
Drag and drop folders and files into the Blackboard system: set up a "web folder" in Windows Explorer, ...
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Posted
September 10, 2009
Brief downtime scheduled for Friday 9/11 morning to fix Blackboard bug....
Posted
March 5, 2009
As many of you have noticed, Blackboard has been a bit unstable this week. We lost access on Tuesday afternoon, overnight Wednesday night, and part of Thursday morning. IS sent out an email warning regarding possible future outages.
Here are the details we've received from the hardware and system administrators at Swarthmore:
The Blackboard database had been stored on a SAN (storage array network) at Swarthmore that became unstable due to hardware failures. These hardware failures also caused an email outage at Swarthmore.
This morning (Thursday 3/5) the database was migrated to a different SAN, and should now be ...
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