So at the end of last week the Palomar Blackboard system went though an upgrade process to the most currently released version of the Blackboard Learn software.  (For version number hounds, we were at 9.1 Service Pack 3, and are now at 9.1 Service Pack 5.)  Most folks would respond to that with a rousing cry of “so what?!”  Here is what Palomar faculty should be aware of regarding this new version of Blackboard: File size limits: For years I’ve been warning faculty about a limit in Blackboard, where course archives and imports over 250 Mb in size would simply not import into a new...

Today I undertake explanation of the use of the glossary tool in Blackboard 9, certainly an overlooked part of the program, but do it in combination with a program that we license for faculty and staff members at our school called StudyMate. Along the way we will explore: 1.  Building a glossary in Blackboard 9; 2.  Exporting the glossary file as a tab delimited XLS file; 3.  Importing the XLS file to StudyMate; 4.  Building a flash card activity in StudyMate based on our glossary file; 5.  Saving our flash cards as a flash object (the two uses of “flash” not to be confused); 6.  Zipping...