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gw0046349 in System Administrator Community2 days ago

Managed Hosting, End of Life

I just heard this announcement was coming soon. Is it? Does anyone know?

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juliahakes in System Administrator Community2 days ago

New Amazon Alexa Skill coming soon for Blackboard Learn users

We are pleased to announce that we will be launching a new Alexa Skill for Blackboard Learn later this month. This integration will be the first Alexa Skill officially released by Blackboard. What is the Blackboard Alexa Skill? The Blackboard Alexa Skill allows Blackboard Learn users to request and receive information about

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ra0043350 in System Administrator Community1 year ago

SafeAssign and the Blackboard Mobile App

For the past few years, our faculty have been using SafeAssign more and more frequently, and although there have been some bumps along the way, the overall feedback has been that this is a useful tool. A few days ago, one of our faculty alerted me to an issue in her class. She had created an Assignment (enabling SafeAssign), and while all

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sa0046713 in Blackboard Idea Exchange10 hours ago

Prevent users from using Ally to circumvent file permissions

At present it is possible for any instructor to use Ally to by-pass file permissions in the institutional content area. The scenario is: There is a file in the institutional content area which the user does not have write access to. This is linked to a course space, like all files Ally will run its accessibility checker over it

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jm0048678 in Blackboard Developer Community4 months ago

Sending data from external LTI tools

Hi Team, I am writing a LTI application which lets an instructor connect to our app and return an embed URL back to Blackboard, as a content item. I am using the "ims-lti" gem and have build the app, and trying to get it work. I've added the app as a "Deep Linking Content tool", and it shows up and I am able to generate the

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