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kp0054257 in System Administrator Community22 hours ago (Show more)

2016 Theme

Is there any way to enable "Course Themes" but disable "Menu Styles" at the admin level so instructors can customize the theme, but not alter the menu style?

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mdeeprose (to kp0054257) 6 hours ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Kate Course themes are not supported in the 2016 theme. Although you can select them you will find that parts of the course themes are missing or broken. See https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Administrator/SaaS/User_Interface_Options/Learn_2016_Theme "Course themes are not supported. Administrators should disable course themes in Course…

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a5637 in System Administrator Community1 week ago (Show more)

Anyone still self-hosted or managed-hosted?

Just curious to see how many people still aren't on SaaS

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ia0076104 (to a5637) 16 hours ago (Show more Show less)

Hi, We are managed-hosted and we using Blackboard Learn Q2 2019 CU2 Release 3700.0.1. Ibraheem Aburass Bb System Admin University of Tabuk

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eb0071065 in System Administrator Community1 day ago (Show more)

Institutional Hierarchies

Hello there Just wondered if people use hierarchies to good effect and how they go about it? We have been toying with them but I am not sure they are 100% effective, the documentation on Blackboard seems a bit thin on the ground and I have asked for a bit more detail. I relate hierarchies to active directory, from mt IT days where you would… (Show more)

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jkelley_blackboard (to jb22661) 17 hours ago (Show more Show less)

Note: When you create a new node, it inherits the course tool settings of its parent. If you really had to push a setting down to dozens of decedents, you could delete and recreate those nodes. (I say this with the full realization that it is generally impractical and may generate more work than it eliminates.)

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yoleneors in System Administrator Community1 year ago (Show more)

Building blocks in SaaS

UPDATE : the new information gathering building block for SaaS migration will give you information about compatibility (cf James' comment below). Yay ! ****** As a lot of institutions are transitioning to SaaS, and testing their building blocks, I also see here and there references to alternatives and LTI versions of B2 (Building Blocks), so I…

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david.hallam in System Administrator Community1 week ago (Show more)

Administering the Institutional Hierarchy in Ultra

Would it be possible to ask those using Blackboard Ultra, has there been any improve to the interface for Administering Institutional Hierarchy or is it as inspiring as it is in Original? Particularity interested to see if the Node tree view still does not really render very well, if you have nodes with long names.

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christer.lassman (to david.hallam) 1 day ago (Show more Show less)

By the way, Blackboard Ultra doesn´t change the administrator page much. I guess the theme 2016 changes more of the view. Regards Christer

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kt0070132 in System Administrator Community3 days ago (Show more)

sys admin role w/ "Internal" Data Source Key

Need some help determining what the 'Internal" designation means under Data Source Key. I have this user in my system, but can't make this user unavailable. It has a full system administrator role. Thanks!

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jkelley_blackboard (to mdeeprose) 2 days ago (Show more Show less)

Mr. Deeprose is correct. The account is simply the primer account when the system is first created. Blackboard staff should never use the administrator account to access customer systems. For Manged Hosting and SaaS deployments, Blackboard Support will create a "bbsupport" account for this purpose. Is is a best practice to keep the…

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nl0050354 in System Administrator Community9 months ago (Show more)

Course Archiving

We manually archive courses one by one and I was wondering what other institutions do. We archive a course, download it and then move the downloaded .zip file to a campus file server. This happens each semester as we only keep one years worth of courses in Blackboard. What is everyone else's process?

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rs0080185 (to nl0050354) 2 days ago (Show more Show less)

I am in a bit of a different circumstance, as I work for a government organization. Our classes are between three and five days each and offered only a few times a year. We have the same course material unless a law changes. So we keep a master for four years (we redevelop each course on a rolling 4 year schedule) and archive only after the…

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sk0077920 in System Administrator Community3 days ago (Show more)

PollEverywhere integration

Hello and greetings from Austria! I recently joined the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna as Blackboard adminstrator. We are currently looking for an audience response system and are considering using PollEverywhere as it is offering an LMS integration for Blackboard. The problem is, Polleverywhere is using Email adresses as usernames… (Show more)

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wm37036 (to sk0077920) 2 days ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Stefan, As the Bb Admin, I tried integrating Poll Everywhere with Blackboard and had little success. We ran into the same issue had except we are on SSO using SAML. I also called Poll Everywhere and the tech said not to use the integration becuase it is very difficult to get to work right. Everyone at my institution has two email…

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kevinoconnor in System Administrator Community1 year ago (Show more)

Learn 2016 Theme Issues & Fixes Master List

There are a few issues with the 2016 theme but the fixes are spread out in threads here and on various mailing lists which makes it hard for people moving to the 2016 theme to know where to start/what to prioritise so I thought it might be useful to try to collate them. The way it works is you can use this thread for general discussion and to… (Show more)

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billde (to mdeeprose) 3 days ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Matthew, Thanks for the heads-up on this. I'll take a look at your SQL example and look at how we can apply it to our system. Also, looking forward to seeing your video when you post it. Thanks again for taking the time to reply, Bill

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