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Tips to post grades in Blackboard Vista
There are 4 necessary conditions for students to see grades in their Blackboard Vista class. If your students are not able to see their grades, check the settings listed below.
New and improved Course Email List tool
What is the Course Email List tool? Each semester Instructors may request a Course Email list for any sections they are teaching. The tool provides an easy to use email “alias” that contains an updated list of students in that course. This allows the Instructor an easy to communicate with course, without having to worry [...]
Upcoming Maintenance of SafeAssign Service
As part of Blackboard’s effort to maintain current versions of software, the SafeAssign Services will be unavailable on Sunday, July 25th beginning at 6 pm EDT. The SafeAssign Services will be restored by Monday, July 26th at 6am EDT, if not sooner. Blackboard regrets any inconvenience this may cause and appreciates your understanding of the [...]
Blackboard outage scheduled Jan 30-31 2010
The Blackboard course management system will be off line beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30. The scheduled outage could last until 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan 31. The outage has been scheduled to apply software patches to Blackboard. The patches should improve the system’s stability and reduce time lost to unscheduled outages during 2010. The [...]
Transitioning from TurnItIn to SafeAssign
TurnItIn, the current plagiarism detection tool used on the Purdue West Lafayette campus, will no longer be available after May 11, 2010. The replacement, SafeAssign (previously mydropbox), is already available for use. General information on SafeAssign can be found on our website: http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/Safeassign Specific topics can be found in our GoldAnswers Knowledgebase – What is [...]