There was an interesting question the other day about a student claiming CE/Vista lost the draft a student wrote. The administrator, Michael Scalero, wanted to know how we “administrators recover or assist users in gaining access to the content that the students (or instructors) have saved”. Part of my response was, Besides, CE/Vista isn’t designed for administrators…
It’s like the Electronic Frontier Foundation is Captain Obvious? It says web-sites fingerprint browsers to identify the users. The website anonymously logged the configuration and version information from each participant’s operating system, browser, and browser plug-ins — information that websites routinely access each time you visit — and compared that information to a database of…
The highest revision of Oracle database supported by Blackboard for CE/Vista is 10g. Wondering if other Bb clients have noticed Oracle 10g leaves Premier Support on July 31, 2010. The first year of Extended SUpport fees are waived, so July 31, 2011 we’ll have to start paying extra money to Oracle unless Blackboard starts supporting…
One of the out of session discussions at the Georgia Baha’i School yesterday morning was on how bad online media are for us. (I’ve boiled down what was described to neurotransmitters.) Dopamine: Anticipation with each click will lead to a reward leads to addiction-like behaviors. Oxytocin: Lack of touch leads to feeling lonely. For those…
Note we don’t usually run single installs. Previous work with clustered installs didn’t present this issue that I know. First run of Blackboard CE/Vista 8 Service Pack 3 Hoftfix 1 installer on a single install gave me: Installation error. Cannot install Java as target directory already exists – /path/to/node/jdk150_13 The installer hung because it went…
Another one of those old articles I started but didn’t finish / publish at the time. This was originally composed April 12th. Thinking about this article I read over the weekend, specifically this point. Closed and proprietary systems are not about learning they are about management. If we want to engage students in learning on…
Sorry, this was originally supposed to be published a few weeks ago. I’m just getting around to posting it. – Ezra Tests after applet patch in development reported chat failures. Chat uses an applet, so I was concerned and investigated the problem. The usual culprits were not affected. setEnv.sh had WEBCT_CONFIG_OPTIONS set to start chat on…
My hosting service, Dreamhost, announced they would be upgrading every one off PHP4. Only people using old software would get bitten. I’ve kept my software current, so I wasn’t worried. Only this of all eight domains started showing an HTTP 500 error (Internal Server Error). I dreaded having to go through and determine why. Turns…
There is a a story about a nine year old gaining administrator access to his school’s system to change passwords and home work assignments. [Blackboard] disputes local reports that the installation of its technology at the school was hacked. “It was actually not a hack, unless you consider the fact that the 9-year-old took the…