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Blackboard Maintenance Scheduled Friday Jan 30, 12:01 AM-6AM

Blackboard will be offline from 1AM - 5AM during this period

Blackboard engineers will perform infrastructure maintenance at the datacenter where we are hosted on Friday, January 30, 2015 from 12:01 AM - 6AM.  Blackboard itself will also be offline from...

Posted: January 23, 2015, 12:54 PM

Blackboard Export Process Updated to Address Known Issue

Recent maintenance performed on the UMBC's Blackboard site allows faculty to export older courses without experiencing the known issue with invalid files and import the course content to the new...

Posted: January 8, 2015, 11:45 AM

WT/SP 2015 Courses Created on Bb Hosting Site on 12/2/14

Bb course shells for WT2015 and SP2015 were created on December 2, 2014 on the new Blackboard managed hosting site. Bb shells are available for all courses (designated as lecture, lab, field or...

Posted: December 3, 2014, 12:07 PM

Bb Achievements to Support Competency Based Learning

Use badges to motivate & reward students via gamification

As announced earlier this semester, Winter and Spring 2015 courses will be hosted by Blackboard directly instead of by DoIT. As part of this change, we will also upgrade to the Spring 2014 version...

Posted: November 4, 2014, 1:01 PM

New Features Coming to Blackboard in Winter 2015

Software upgrade is part of migration to managed hosting

As announced earlier this week, Winter and Spring 2015 courses will be hosted by Blackboard directly instead of by DoIT. As part of this change, we will also be upgrading to the Spring 2014...

Posted: October 3, 2014, 5:58 AM