Let me lead off by saying that this is entirely my own personal opinion. However, I’ve had a LOT of experience supporting users on a variety of web browsers using our Blackboard system here at Palomar, so I am basing that personal opinion on a good deal of both personal experiences and anecdotal evidence. What I’m talking about is the question I typically do my best to dodge: “What web browser should I use with Blackboard?” First off, there is no “should.” If you have some strong reason for using one particular browser, go right ahead. None of the browsers are...

In keeping with our efforts to help faculty prepare for changes in technology before they have to deal with it live in front of their students, we have upgraded the BbSandbox environment here at Palomar to the latest build out from the company, Blackboard Learn 9.1 SP9. Being an odd-numbered service pack, the bulk of the changes in SP9 are of the “bug fix” and “security update” variety, which I won’t bother going into here. There are also some administrator-side improvements to the system, but as all three of Palomar’s Blackboard sysadmins are already aware of...

There’s a new version of Blackboard out, which is now live on the BbSandbox environment, and which should go live for Summer 2012 on the Palomar production Blackboard environment. The single biggest change you’ll see in the system is the visual appearance of the system; given the number of complaints I’ve heard over the last year-and-a-half about how things look (I kinda like the green buttons, myself), there should be at least a few cheers at that news. Blackboard has been working on a new look for their system for quite some time now, and have rolled out this new look with...