In Blackboard Learn there are three kinds of deleted students.  This is not handled the same way it was in Vista.

_ “Unenroll” – this deletes the student completely, including all the student’s work.  Not recommended, as there is no record of the student in the class.

- “Make Inactive”-This is something the instructor can do in a course and is intended to be a temporary measure.  The student still appears in the full grade center, but with a read “X” beside the student’s name.

- “Disable the Student” – This completely removes the student from the grade center so the instructor now longer sees the name, but student work remains in the course.  If a student changes their mind and joins the course again, the student can pick back up with no loss of previous work.

We used to make students who dropped the course “inactive”, but that wasn’t popular as the student still appeared in the grade book and class stats were thrown off because it included grades for these students. And, they were still included in auto assignments for groups.

Now we disable the student. The only issue is if they had items that needed grading they would still show up under “needs grading”.  There is a proposed patch from Blackboard that fixes that issue.  If you have questions about students in the grade center in Blackboard Learn, please contact tlt-bblearn-help@lists.purdue.edu

It’s a sunny day. You’re minding your own business, trying to play a little catch-up. You’ve created a page in a Confluence wiki space which contains a table. You need to send this table to someone who doesn’t have access to the space. Cutting and pasting doesn’t maintain the structure of the table, so you get the bright idea of exporting this page to a PDF, sending that in your email.

Well it works; sort of. The PDF contains the title of this Confluence page, and you’d rather not have a title. So you get the bright idea of temporarily saving the Confluence page with no title, so the PDF is formatted the way you want it. Cue the theme song from the X-Files, please. Even though you

• cut the title
• save the page without a title
• generate your desired PDF
• re-save the page with the title restored; returning the page to normal

All, and I mean all, pages in that entire Confluence space will have the text of the deleted title inserted everywhere it see the carrot (^) link construct. Let me repeat … ALL pages will be so effected even though they have no relation to the page you edited, other than being in the same Confluence space.

There is no known fix. Well, there is a secret pill to avoid this bacteria … don’t create a Confluence wiki page which doesn’t contain a title. There, you’ve been inoculated.

Reference to the bug