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KCTCS Blackboard (eLearning)
Known Issues
Current Build: 9.1.201410.160373 (9.1 October 2014 Release)
Updated: 5/14/2015
Notes:
-Items identified as defects are set to be resolved in a future release of Blackboard. It is not know in which release the defect will be resolved until that release
has been made generally available.
Application
Date Added Component
Description
Status
Workaround
Under Content
Select Build Content
Select Create Item
Give the item a name
Select the Insert/Edit Embedded Media
Button from the toolbar
A new window will appear - In the File/URL
text box enter the URL of the YouTube
video copied earlier
Click Insert
Users are unable to upload and embed YouTube videos using
You will be returned to the previous screen
YouTube Mashup or Video Everywhere. The uploaded video
where you can set additional settings
can be found on youtube.com, but searching for it in the
Once you are satisfied with your settings
applicable building block returns videos directing users to
Click Submit
https://youtube.com/devicesupport. This behavior is
Defect/Awaiting You will see the video embedded in the
5/14/2015
YouTube
unrelated to OAuth 1.0 being deprecated.
Patch
content page
3/9/2015
Discussion Board
A session error popup is displayed when trying to view
youtube mashup thumbnail videos in a discussion board.
This error is only displayed when the thumbnail option is
selected.
Defect/Awaiting
Patch
Set the Youtube mashup as a "text link
with player" option or embedded video.
Unavailable gradeable items are not visible in My Grades if
ungraded. Prior to the redesign of the My Grades tool (in
SP9 or older versions), the list of Grade Center columns
included items that were also unavailable. With the new My
Grades, unavailable items (items with AVAILABLE_IND of N)
are not visible in My Grades. This presents a problem to
users who have been using availability and adaptive release
to manage when students are able to take tests. It is not
until 9.1 SP14 that there is the ability to prevent users from
accessing a date past its due date, without having to make it
unavailable. While the items will show under My Grades
once there is a grade assigned to them, users still want to
have the item visible on the My Grades list.
Defect
2/18/2015
My
Grades/Upcoming
Grades
2/5/2015
The Spell Check tool in the VTBE Content Editor behaves
erratically when correcting a word that has been flagged as
misspelled. Depending on how one goes about making edits,
the tags inserted by the tool to flag misspelled words will
occasionally remain after the word is corrected. If the
misspelled word touches a correctly spelled word before or
after it (space between is removed) or text is
dragged/dropped or copy/pasted, the closing tag can end up
inserted within the word, resulting in partial words being
flagged. When this occurs, the tags are not refreshed when
the spell-check is turned off and on. The words or partial
Spell Check/Content words will be flagged by continued spell checks despite
Editor
being spelled correctly.
None Available
Defect/Awaiting
Updated Content
Editor Building
Block
None Available
2/2/2015
Grading/Grade
Center
Word wrapping breaks up words within Given Answer when
grading essay questions via "Grade All" button on Needs
Grading page.
Word wrap is not working correctly within the Given Answer.
Words are incorrectly broken up spanning two lines.
The WIRIS Math Editor does not load correctly in IE. When
you attempt to use the tool it is missing all of the button
icons.
Defect/Awaiting
Patch
None Available
Defect/Awaiting
Patch
As a workaround you may use supported
versions of FireFox and Chrome
1/27/2015
WIRIS Math Editor
1/27/2015
Users are receiving an error when attempting to edit
individual course settings. If a user edits any course they are
enrolled in via Edit Notification Settings>Edit Individual
Course Settings then try to enter the individual course
settings after editing it they receive the error "An error
Defect/Awaiting
Notification Settings occurred. Contact the System Administrator.".
Patch
1/26/2015
Tests
When editing test question answers the text editor does not Defect/Awaiting
properly expand to see the full set of text editor options.
Patch
None Available
As a workaround you may click the full
screen mode of the question text editor to
see the entire set of options. From here
you may update the changes. After
updating the changes click exit full screen
mode. This issue has been reported to
Blackboard.
1/26/2015
1/20/2015
Creating
Announcement s
Announcement notifications are being sent without checking Functioning as
the email option.
designed.
The checkbox option in the Announcement
creation window is specifically for
overriding the user or system settings for
email notification deployments and sends
an email immediately to the users if
checked. The checkbox doesn't control
whether or not a notification email is sent
to users, but simply when by overriding the
notification settings. Users may change
their settings for notifications including
turning them off completely.
SoftChalk
Faculty will receive this error when an unsecure server
address is added to their SoftChalk account: "Unable to
connect to the server. All connection paths failed null".
Please make sure the server address in the
SoftChalk account is set
to:https://elearning.kctcs.edu.
Functioning as
designed.
1/16/2015
Brainfuse
1/14/2015
Adaptive Release
12/19/2015
Discussion Boards
After the recent update to Blackboard Learn the Brainfuse
integration stopped functioning due to the Brainfuse
building block (Bb plug-in) being incompatible with our
current version of Bb Learn.
Defect
When adding or modifying an Adaptive Release Rule with a
Membership criterion, a list of all users in the system is
provided to select from rather than just
the list of students enrolled in the course. The system allows
adding non-enrolled users in the criterion for Adaptive
Release.
Defect/Awaiting
Patch
Expand all button does not work in Discussion boards with
more than 11 replies
Defect/Awaiting
Patch
System Wide/IE
Internet Explorer generates errors when KCTCS.edu is
included in the compatibility view list.
12/19/2014
Functioning as
designed.
As a workaround the tool has been added
to the system as a LTI integration. Please
click here to access a video demonstrating
how to add the tool to your course.
Please see this document for workarounds
to this issue.
None Available
Manually expand discussion board replies
12/19/2014
12/19/2014
12/19/2014
12/19/2014
12/19/2014
12/19/2014
Safe Assign
Calendar
Students receive the error message “Sorry, we do not think
you are logged into SafeAssign. Your session may have
timed out. If you have received this message in error, please
contact your system administrator” when they attempt to
submit an assignment.
Changes are not properly reflected in the calendar when
using Internet Explorer.
Defect/Awaiting
Patch
Defect/Awaiting
Patch
Course List
When doing a Course Copy and including the Discussion
Board, selecting “include starter posts” leads to pop-up
message and error when trying to de-anonymize the posts. Defect
If you are enrolled in more than 99 courses, your course list
will not load and you receive the prompt: “You are currently
enrolled in too many courses to view them all here. Please Functioning as
use the course catalog.”
designed.
VTBE
VTBE spell checker turns off after entering a space. 1. If you
click the VTBE spell checker button, it will highlight
misspelled words, but if you type in a space, the words will
become un-highlighted and you will need to run the spell
checker again. 2. In the new VTBE, the browser's built-in
spell check function cannot be used, which makes the above
issue more problematic
Defect
Discussion Board
Organizations
Structures and themes are not available in an organization.
Functioning as
designed.
Please clear your browser cache and
attempt to resubmit the item. If you need
assistance with this please contact the Bb
Helpdesk.
Use supported versions of Chrome or
Firefox
Do not include starter posts in Discussion
Board when doing Course Copy. Select to
leave the message anonymous in the
popup message. Please see this PDF for
more details.
I have asked that Bb update the
portal_max_course_enrollments_to_displa
y value to 200 to resolve.
None Available
Enhancement request was submitted.
Instructors may notice longer-than-expected processing time
and larger-than-expected package files when exporting data
from a course. This would affect exporting data from the
Control Panel > Packages and Utilities > Export/Archive
Course as well as from the Test/Survey/Pool Manager.
12/19/2014
In most cases, these symptoms are caused by assessments
that have been imported into the course from a third-party
application. These applications package files related to the
assessments in a "ppg" folder. Unfortunately, the
Blackboard application cannot distinguish what related data
pertains to what assessment(s). Thus, when any
Content Exchange import/export/restore/archive operation is run, the entire
(import/export/rest "ppg" folder is included in the process, regardless of whether
ore/archive)
it pertains what the content exchange operation is targeting. Defect
This behavior does not typically cause
failure of content exchange operations,
though it can undesirably count towards
the course quota. It also increases
processing time and the size of the
package files. There is currently no
approved way of cleaning up this data or
preventing it from being included in
content exchange operations.
Developers of third-party products that
provide assessment package files have the
option of re-designing their software to
use a packing format that does not suffer
from this limitation.
Resolved Issues
Date
Resolved
3/1/2015
Application
Component
Blogs/Journals
Description
Status
Original Workaround
Comments do not load on graded journals and blogs.
As a workaround, the instructor can
remove the comment and reply in the
feedback box instead - or un-grade the
blog and create another column to score
Resolved by an
the blog. Blackboard is working on a patch
Updated Building to resolve this issue. No ETA on the patch
Block.
at this time.
2/12/2015
2/12/2015
2/8/2015
2/8/2015
2/8/2015
Test/Status Bar
When students scroll vertically while taking a test, the staus
bar remains in a fixed location on the screen, rather than
scrolling with the rest of the page. Test questions and/or
answers can be hidden behind it.
Notification Emails
Some users are receiving duplicate notification emails from
Blackboard Learn.
Printing/Grade
Center
Instructors are unable to print more than one page of a
student grade report, a test canvas and course content
areas.
None Available
Resolved by
Cumulative
Update #1
Assessment Links
Course links that link to assignments or content area
generate access denied errors.
Resolved by
Cumulative
Update #1
None Available
Grade Center
Resolved by
When instructors download the full grade center from their
Cumulative
course the weighted totals in the download do not match
Update #1
weighted totals in the course.
None Available
Some course tool links produce a permissions error after
adding the tool(s) to a course menu. Tools affected: Cengage Resolved by
Mind Links, McGraw-Hill Connect, WileyPLUS, Bb
Cumulative
Collaborate. The error is “The specified resource was not
Update #1
found, or you do not have permission to access it.”.
2/8/2015
A high priority ticket has been opened with
the Blackboard Managed Hosting team.
Blackboard is currently investigating this
issue. At this time there is not a
workaround for this issue.
Instructors may try doing a Ctrl A/ Ctrl V
from Bb into WORD then save/print.
Blackboard is working on a patch to
resolve this issue.
Course Menu Tool
Links
Bb is working on a patch to correct this
issue. The workaround is to add a tools
area menu link to the course then enter
the tools area>click on the tool that is
affected to access it. Click here to view a
video demonstrating how to add a tools
area.