October 9, 2008 | In
Service Notices
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Upgrade/Maintenance Period
During this time ITS will be upgrading the firmware on the router that connects the switches in and provides routing for the ITS-Manning machine room. This maintenance will result in network communication interruptions of approximately 20 minutes for systems at that location, including https://blackboard.unc.edu.
October 7, 2008 | In
Service Notices
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Uncategorized
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Bug/Problem
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Upgrade/Maintenance Period
During this time ITS will apply a fix for a Blackboard 6.3 bug that causes duplications of some Gradebook related items when copying or importing courses.
Although we have not received reports from users of any problems related to this bug, according to Blackboard this bug could potentially lead to a variety of issues:
- Duplicate Gradebook categories.
- Weights by category does not function.
- Duplicates in Total and Weighted Total columns in the database leading to:
- total scores in student grade view appearing twice as high as they should be
- instructors inability to hide these from student view
- instructors inability to control whether the total appears as running total or not to students
After the fix is applied and while the system is still unavailable to user, ITS will carry out extensive testing in an attempt to safeguard the integrity of Gradebook data in the courses affected.
