The tips, tools, and straight talk every Blackboard admin needs.
The tips, tools, and straight talk every Blackboard admin needs.
Author’s Note: This post is the first of a series. Each post will focus on each day of Building Blackboard Together 2026 and include a final evaluation of the conference based on my preview and thoughts in June’s blog post…
July 12th Update: After this blog post, the folks at Elsevier reached out to me. It appears that they have worked to address this issue. I recommend you read the comment from Jeff Keating, the SVP of Engineering at Elsevier…
Well folks, its that time of year again. The time when users of the now myriad of Blackboard products come together for Blackboard World. This year’s pilgrimage takes us to the company’s hometown, Washington DC, and the banks of the…
Blackboard’s annual users conference kicked off with its technical and geeky side first as The 10th annual Blackboard Developers Conference started with a day and a half of sessions focusing on four major tracks: Extending Learn using Building Blocks Performance/Security/Monitoring…
6/12 Update: John Porter announced via a Blackboard Admin ListServ that global patches which require all Blackboard services stopped, will be removed from cumulative patches. The ETA for the implementation of this plan hasn’t been revealed. At Blackboard World…
Well back to school went pretty well for myself and those of us working with Blackboard at Mizzou. However one word did rear its ugly head over the start of the Fall semester. ActiveMQ. That program could frustrate the Dahil…
The past few weeks have been rather crazy for me as a Blackboard system admin. First our biggest issue seemed to come after our upgrade to Blackboard 9.1 Service Pack 8. During that week I awoke to a phone call…