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USC Blackboard Policy: Student access to old courses is being removed

One of the things I really liked about Blackboard was the fact that course materials from old courses were still available there. Unfortunately, this is being removed on September 1, 2008. Unavailable Courses A new policy has been instated by ITS Blackboard Administration and the Blackboard Advisory Committee that courses should only be available to…Continue Reading…

USC Blackboard, Google Apps Down

Today, USC’s Shibbloeth sign-on software wasn’t working for several hours. That meant blackboard, googleapps, my, and mywiki were down. I think they handled it well, though. They responded quickly to emails, and their phone system had a recording saying that they knew about the problem and were working to fix it. I wonder why it…Continue Reading…