Category: System Admin
Chalk It Up To Experience
July 12th Update: After this blog post, the folks at Elsevier reached out to me. It appears that they have worked to address this issue. I recommend you read …
Best Practices
Many of my Blackboard admin colleagues’ blood pressures rise when we talk about SCORM. SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) was developed by the US Secretary of Defense …
Blackboard Collaborate
During Blackboard World 2015, Blackboard made many announcements about their products, but none (in my opinion) with more impact than a new community site. I was lucky to provide …
Blackboard World
Well folks, its that time of year again. The time when users of the now myriad of Blackboard products come together for Blackboard World. This year’s pilgrimage takes us …
Best Practices
Over the past few years I have become a crusader in using tools such Piwik Analytics in Blackboard Learn. In many presentations I have shown how these tools have …
Blackboard Support
Note: I apologize for the delay in getting this post up. It has been a crazy time, but more on that in a later blog post. Zero. None. Null. …
Blackboard Learn Administration Book
One of the many topics that my book, Blackboard Learn Administration, talks about is upgrading and installing Blackboard Learn. However I didn’t really go into detail about the process …
Blackboard 9.1 SP11
Greetings everyone! Sorry that I haven’t been able to post but I have recently been dealing with a Blackboard production environment that has spent much of its time in …
Blackboard World
Blackboard’s annual users conference kicked off with its technical and geeky side first as The 10th annual Blackboard Developers Conference started with a day and a half of sessions …
Blackboard World
6/12 Update: John Porter announced via a Blackboard Admin ListServ that global patches which require all Blackboard services stopped, will be removed from cumulative patches. The ETA for the …