Blackboard Announcements
Below, you will find general announcements from Blackboard Support and from FHU IT concerning our installation version of the Blackboard learning management system.
June 23, 2008 (from FHU IT)
A scheduled upgrade from system version CE 6 to CE 8 was implemented.
March 13, 2008 (from FHU IT)
Regularly scheduled maintenance will happen from 6am - 7am. Several security
issues and DST items will be resolved.
January 8, 2008 (from FHU IT)
The plagiarism prevention service, Blackboard SafeAssign, has been added to
our installation.
November 28, 2007 (from FHU IT)
The social bookmarking tool, Blackboard Scholar, has been added to our
installation.
October 25, 2007 (from FHU IT)
Microsoft Office 2007 file formats are now recognized by Blackboard.
October 15, 2007 (from FHU IT)
Blackboard has been upgraded to accept all current versions of the Java
JRE.
September 7, 2007 (from FHU IT)
Blackboard-ready computer labs
There are currently five computer labs on campus that are Blackboard ready.
They are:
BK204, BK207, BK211, ASC209, GC005
& the public access computers in the library
June 5, 2007 (from Blackboard)
Microsoft Office 2007 file formats are not
currently supported in Blackboard CE 6.2
"Microsoft Office 2007 introduced a new file format for Microsoft Office Word,
Excel, and PowerPoint files. The new file format is XML-based and
automatically compresses when saved and decompresses when opened using
zip compression technology. New file name extensions are included with these
new file formats. As a result, Microsoft Office Word files which were appended
with .doc are now, in general, appended with .docx. The new file
name extensions are not recognized as supported MIME types in the Blackboard
Learning System. As a result of the unrecognized file name extension and the
use of zip compression technology, Microsoft Office 2007 files that are
uploaded to the Blackboard Learning System appear with a .ZIP file name
extension instead of the appropriate Microsoft Office 2007 file name
extension. Blackboard is actively working on updates to existing versions of the
Blackboard Learning System that will support the new Microsoft Office 2007 file
types."