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Google Analytics and Mobile Learn
Can you track Blackboard Mobile Learn access?Yes, but you may have some difficulty separating out "pure" Mobile Learn from clients who use browsers on Mobile Devices. Especially since Mobile Learn also...
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The content below is outside of the Blackboard Learn environment.
Starting in Blackboard Learn 9.1SP3, when you display external links within the same window, you get a RED status "The content below is outside of the Blackboard Learn environment."Users are either...
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Experiments with Sakai Test & Quizzes export and import into Blackboard 9.1SP5
Objective: Sakai 2.7 Tests and Quizzes supports IMS QTI 1.2 export. Blackboard 9.1SP4 (or later) supports IMS Common Cartridge 1.1 import. Can we export a multiple choice test from Sakai and import it...
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Experiments with Sakai Tests and Quizzes IMS QTI export and Respondus
Respondus (www.respondus.com) is a Windows-based program for creating and managing exams. It is pretty much the Rosetta-stone of quiz publishing to various Course Management Systems (ANGEL, Blackboard,...
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Bb Mobile Learn Analytics
Reference: the Mobile Learn Analytics User Guide (which I've suggested be posted somewhere on Behind the Blackboard)Getting StartedTo access Blackboard Mobile™ Learn Analytics, you must have Blackboard...
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Group File Exchange; Bb8 -> Bb9 missing link name
Just ran into an issue with trying to restore Group File Exchange files from a Bb8 archive. After the restore the file was there, but filename was not being displayed in the Bb9 Group File Exchange UI....
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MathJax and VTBE Experiments
Our faculty are interested in putting equations into Blackboard. However, the current equation editor is old and flaky (works for some browsers, not for others). I heard from other schools about...
View ArticleThings to do in Vegas
In preparation for BbWorld 11, some links that I found for things to do in Las Vegas if you don't gamble. 7 things to do in vegas besides gamble http://bit.ly/edoc2h what to do in vegas if you don't...
View ArticleYahoo Pipe for BbWorld tweets
I set up a Yahoo Pipe to aggregate the various phrases for BbWorld (bbworld, bbworld11, devcon11, bbcollab2011). It also filters out entries with the word "blackberry" (as that's the other common...
View ArticleGenerating sessions
I needed a way to generate 1000+ sessions in the Bb sessions table in development. However, development doesn't garner that many active users. I hit upon using webdav to generate sessions via curl....
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9.1SP5 vs 9.1SP7 Assessment Submission Details
Note: the following changes may have occurred in 9.1SP6 but we skipped that version.In 9.1SP5, you got very little information about when a test was started/submitted.Here is the Grade Details screen...
View ArticleSuperUser Building Blocks
Note: Review was done in March 2011.Sakai had the super-user ability where admins could become another person. Typically they use this to investigate student issues (to see what they see). There are at...
View ArticleBlackboard Best Practices with Tests
Some links to other Bb Institutions who've written about best practices when working with tests.Lakeland Community College:...
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NETBIOS over TCP and certain Building Block load times
We were investigating why certain 3rd party Building Blocks took a long time to load screens (10+ seconds). This occurred with EvaluationKit and Internships.com B2s. This was consistent in our...
View ArticleRestricting User Access
Every so often, we get an official request to restrict a user from some portion of Blackboard.Some questions we need to ask:how urgent is this request?what is the scope of the restriction?is the...
View ArticleWishlist/Enhancements to 9.1SP8 cross-listing/merge enrollments
I'm coming up with a list of enhancements we'd like to see for the current 9.1SP8 cross-listing/merge enrollments feature. We're coming from the Bb Section Merge Tool (SMT), so some of it comes from...
View ArticleCopy/Paste when using the Content Editor with Firefox
There's a security setting in Firefox that prevents javascript-based HTML editors from accessing your clipboard.There's a workaround using a Firefox add-on called AllowClipboard Helper...
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Content Editor and WIRIS supports LaTeX in 9.1SP12
Blackboard 9.1SP12's Content Editor comes with revised WIRIS plugin which no longer requires...
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IMS LTI Launch Test
IMS LTI Launch Test The prior IMS LTI test site I was using (see my older blog post) no longer seemed to work.I found a new one thanks to the JISC-funded ceLTIc (http://www.celtic-project.org/)There...
View Articlepushconfig without starting tomcat services
Saw this question on BBADMIN-L mailing list which had a useful tip from the community:Does anyone know if it's possible to run a pushconfig but not start the tomcat processes? I need to do several...
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Reverse Engineering the Raw Results of a Multiple Answer Question
I had occasion recently to obtain assessment results out of a recovered database. One question type that was a bit puzzling was the Multiple Answer where the Answers were randomized to the student.Say...
View ArticleSelf and Peer Assessment not assigning any users to evaluate
We've encountered a few cases where the self and peer evaluation does not seem to give the students anyone to evaluate after they do their submission. It's not affecting all courses.After some insight...
View ArticleREST API "User"
More Blackboard vendors are moving away from native Building Blocks and WebServices to LTI and REST API.However, the vendor can just casually ask to set up a REST API user with "administrator"...
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MS Teams for Blackboard
Microsoft has created an application that allows instructors to create a Teams meeting and share that with their students. Blackboard has turned that application into an LTI Advantage tool that can be...
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Blackboard: How do I view the client side (browser) SCORM Engine log and...
When you play a SCORM course, there's a lot happening behind the scenes. And a lot of information is available in the debug log. You might never need to see it, but it may help...
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