News about the UO’s Blackboard course information system from the UO Libraries
We’ve scheduled 2 more workshops for faculty who are making the transition to Blackboard 9:
– Wednesday, Sept 30, 4:15pm-5:15, Knight 144 (previously scheduled)
– Thursday, Oct 1, 11am-12:30, Knight Library 42
– Friday, Oct 2, 1pm-2:30pm, Knight Library 42
No registration needed.
In addition, instructors can get assistance by visiting CMET Consulting in Knight Library Room 19, M-F 9-6.
There will be a power outage in Knight Library on October 1 from 5:30am until 6:15am for while some electrical work. Blackboard will be unavailable during this time.
The memo announcing the power outage follows:
September 24, 2009
MEMORANDUM
TO: THE BUILDING USERS OF:
Facilities Services Quonsets 130 & 136
Allen Hall
Clinical Services
Condon Hall
Knight Library
McKenzie Hall
PLC
FROM: Debbie Cadigan, Campus Relations Manager, Facilities Services
SUBJECT: Power Outage
A Power outage has been scheduled for Thursday, October 1 according to the following schedule:
5:30 a.m. to 6:15 a.m. – Allen Hall, Clinical Services, Condon Hall, Knight Library, McKenzie Hall, PLC
5:30 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. – Facilities Quonsets 130 & 136
The purpose of this shutdown is to move the campus feeders to the new CPS switch house.
PLEASE NOTE: Make sure all sensitive electronics, including computers and printers, are turned off or disconnected, prior to this shutdown.
We regret any inconvenience this shutdown may cause. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we transfer over to modern equipment which will help us provide more reliable and sustainable power and improved cooling system.
Please share this message with others in your department or building.
If you have any questions, please contact Del McGee, Campus Electrical Distribution Supervisor, at mcgee@uoregon.edu or ext. 6-5387 or Debbie Cadigan at dcadigan@uoregon.edu or ext 6-2389.
At around noon today, one of our Blackboard servers had a problem connecting to the database and restarted. During this time the users connected to this server were receiving some database errors. The problem has been corrected and both servers are now running without a problem.
By popular demand, we’ve scheduled several additional workshops for faculty and GTFs introducing the Blackboard system. New workshops (no preregistration needed) include:
See also the list of events previously posted. Instructors can also visit CMET Consulting for personalized training.
Groups of instructors interested in additional workshops should contact JQ Johnson or Robert Voelker-Morris to discuss options.
[update 28 Sept: we’ve added more workshops, specifically
We have been getting more reports of problems with Blackboard 9 and Internet Explorer 7. For instance, instructors are unable to make a course available when using IE 7 and also have problems uploading grades into the Grade Center.
If you are using IE 7 we recommend that you either upgrade to IE 8 or switch to Firefox.
The maintenance on the Blackboard system is now complete. During this time we installed a security update, added more disk storage and did some database maintenance.
The new version of Blackboard has many changes. We have web pages with some tips for students and for instructors.
If you’re a student with questions about the new Blackboard, you can also visit the Knight Library Computer Help Desk.
If you’re teaching using Blackboard this fall, we recommend a workshop or that you contact CMET Consulting for one on one training.
Teaching Effectiveness and SCIS are collaborating to offer a large number of Bb workshops for instructors this fall. Among those currently scheduled are:
Bb Introduction for New Users Sep 15, 10am, Knight 42 Bb 9.0: New Version Training Sep 16, 10am, Knight 41 Bb Grade Center Sep 18, 10am, Knight 41 Bb Assignments and Assessment Sep 21, 10am, Knight 42 Bb 9.0: New Version Training Sep 21, 1pm, Knight 41 Bb Blogs and Journaling Sep 22, 10am, Knight 41 Bb Intro for New Users Sep 23, 1pm, Knight 41 Bb Discussion Board Sep 24, 10am, Knight 41 Bb Intro for New Users Sep 24, 1pm, Knight 41 Bb 9: New Version Training Sept 25, 11am-12:30, Knight 42 Bb 9: New Version Training Sept 30, 4:15pm-5:15, Knight 144 Bb 9: New Version Training Oct 1, 11am-12:30, Knight 42 Bb 9: New Version Training [NEW] Friday, Oct 2, 1pm-2:30pm, Knight 42
To register for TEP-sponsored workshops, visit the TEP web site. No registration needed for current workshops.
In addition, instructors can get assistance by visiting CMET Consulting in Knight Library Room 19, M-F 9-6.
If you’re a student with questions about the new Blackboard, you can also visit the Knight Library Computer Help Desk.
To request an additional instructor workshop, contact JQ Johnson.
The course copy process has now been fixed. The course copy will happen the first time you try it so you no longer have to do it twice.
Blackboard will be down for maintenance on Saturday, Sept 12 from 8:00am until 6:00pm. During this time will be be upgrading our storage server to provide more file space for Blackboard and installing a security hotfix for Blackboard. There will be no user-visible changes to the Blackboard system.
For more information on down times, see the downtime schedule page.
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