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Spring 2019 Courses Unavailable
Due to recent work on the Blackboard server, all spring 2019 courses were made unavailable. If the course was available prior to Monday evening, your course was impacted by the work. Professors will need to make their courses available to students agai…
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Fall 2018 Immersive Technology Wrap-Up
Summary
In collaboration with the TLC (Technology Learning Center), this past semester we expanded the scope of the Immersive Technology Initiative to increase access to our VR/AR tools. TLC students now can assis…
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If you receive an email message from bbannounce@richmond.edu, DO NOT reply. This is a non-monitored email address. Please email your professor directly if the email comes from a course announcement.
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We are aware of students being in Blackboard courses that they have either dropped or not registered for and are attempting to address the issue. Please let us know if you are impacted by this at blackboard@richmond.edu and it is not addressed by the e…
(617) 214-3449Course Unavailable to Students Message
If you are seeing the message “Course Unavailable to Students” you can make the course available using the Qwickly module or by going into the course Control Panel -> Customization -> Properties and then make the course available.
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Faculty Blackboard Updates
As you begin the Fall 2018 semester, here are some important updates to Blackboard weâd like to share with you.
Automatic Course Creation
All courses will now be created in Blackboard automatically. There is no longer a course request system. Your co…
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The latest version of Safari causes problems uploading content to Blackboard. It is recommended that you use either Chrome or Firefox instead. This is a known issue with Blackboard, Inc. and will be resolved in a future release. If you have any questio…
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2017-2018 Immersive Technology Wrap-Up
Summary of Academic Year Efforts
At the close of the 2016-2017 academic year, we recognized that in order to grow the Immersive Technology Initiative and impact more faculty and students, we needed a permanent spa…
New Course Merge Tool
 Information about merging and unmerging your Blackboard Courses.
Why Use It
Instructors may use the Course Merge Tool when they want to merge enrollments of two sections of the same course (same department and catalog number) or merging different …
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The Univeristy of Richmond updated to the New Box View service over winter break. A problem viewing documents as arisen so when a user goes into the Inline Grading interface within Blackboard Learn the New Box View service does not load. Instead the us…
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Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware bugs allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer. While programs are typically not permitted to read data from other programs, a ma…
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Another semester is in the book here at the University of Richmond. I’m looking forward to big developments next semester for the Immersive Technologies community. The Gottwald Reading room will open with new VR and AR capabilities, probably stud…
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