Category Archives: Blackboard

Via OLDaily comes this piece about developers at Cambridge building a new interface for Sakai based on Google’s OpenSocial API. This is good because Sakai utterly sucks at the UI level and the observation about it being written by and … Continue reading →

We often are called on to solve strange problems that students have with Blackboard, and I see these discussions on some of the lists all the time. A year or so ago, I pulled together a list of things to … Continue reading →

Blackboard has a number of pending patents in addition to the recently granted one. These were posted by Santo Nucifora to the Blackboard list out of ASU. PUB. APP. NO. Title 1. 20060168233 Internet-based education support system and methods 2. … Continue reading →

We have run into some very strange performance problems with Blackboard and Internet Explorer recently. We think there is an interaction with our load balancer (which is an F5 BigIP – forget which version). We have found that Internet Explorer … Continue reading →

Updated versions of my Blackboard Administrator scripts as referenced on the Wytheville site I used to maintain. Also, for downloading the output of the backup tool, see Wackget, which should allow you to drag all the links to the program … Continue reading →