Bb 9.1 for Faculty
Over the winter break, Blackboard Service Pack 2 was installed to correct some of the issues we encountered last semester in the new version of Blackboard. After the service pack was installed, several new issues have arisen:
1. Instructors are unable to add YouTube videos via "mashups" to their course content. Videos that had been previously attached should still work. This was caused by a change made by Google on January 24th. Blackboard is working on a patch to address this issue.
2. Permanent announcements do not stay at the top of the list. A workaround for this is to move priority announcments to the top.
3. Content that was copied from one course to another and contained linked documents, had broken links. A workaround for this is to relink the document. A patch was installed that fixed this for any future copy.
4. Cannot delete a Grade Center column after partial course copy. For example, an instructor establishes a graded blog in a course, then chooses to copy to an existing course by selecting to copy "Grade Center Columns and Settings" but not "Blogs." A column for the graded blog appears in the destination course but cannot be deleted even though there is no object in the course that is is attached to. This fix is planned for Service Pack 6.
eLearning Services will notify Blackboard users when these issues are resolved.
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This isn't up-to-date. I am in a music course and my instructor was able to add youtube links to blackboard.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment. There are various workarounds for posting YouTube videos in Blackboard. Instructors can add videos, just not through the "mashups" feature.
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