Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Problems with YouTube in Blackboard

Bb 9.1 for Faculty

Part of one of the popular new "mashups" features in Blackboard 9.1, is currently not working. While it is still possible to use mashups to include a flickr photo or slideshare presentation in your course, the YouTube feature displays an error message upon trying to upload a new or edit an existing video through this feature.

Blackboard released the following statement about this issue:

On Monday January 24, 2011 Google made code changes to their application that prevents linked and embedded videos within Blackboard from working properly. Instructors are unable to edit existing embedded videos within a course. Users receive the following error message:

Error: An error was returned by YouTube: [Line 1, Column 6041, element media:thumbnail] Unknown attribute: 'name'

Affected Versions: All versions of 9.1 are affected.

Next Steps: We are currently working to create updated building blocks for all Release 9.1 Service Packs that will release later this month. The issue will be resolved in 9.1 Service Pack 5 as bug number AS-155459.


We will let faculty know as soon as this issue is resolved.

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