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 the comment from Jeff Keating, the SVP of Engineering at Elsevier at the bottom of this post. – Bb Guru Elsevier recently decided to shut […]
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 as part of their Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative. These standards and specifications were set in 2000 and haven’t had a major upgrade since 2010. However many […]
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 impact how we support the Blackboard application at the University of Missouri. Many times I get emails, chats, or questions at conferences about Piwik and Blackboard Learn. […]
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. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Wouldn’t it be nice to have that many user complaints or questions about your Blackboard Learn instance? I think that an empty inbox […]
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 various rings of hell. This has happened on and off since the start of the semester (about 14 weeks ago as of the writing of this […]
We’ve spent months and months at the university building up our users to the new features in Service Pack 11. Especially the new content editor, however over the past few weeks we’ve found issues within SP11 that cause myself and some of the support staff to ask all local hardware stores to stop selling tar […]
