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  1. Blackboard will be down Sunday January 3rd 2010 from 8am til 6pm for patches and maintenance. Will post more info on the fixes soon.
  2. Students, We have just put up a Best Practices for taking online exams in Blackboard info page. http://bit.ly/8ezvmy
  3. Faculty, We have just put up a Best Practices for Successful Test Creation and Administration info page. http://bit.ly/6M9J3m
  4. Spring Semester course request deadline is Dec 21st. fill out the request form here http://bit.ly/6aQE2q
  5. Blackboard Self-help Troubleshooting now available http://bit.ly/7crLi3
  6. Faculty, we recommend you make an archive of your course once a week. Updated instruction are on the wiki: http://bit.ly/2gDcXH
  7. brief problem with the Security Certificate expiring before it was supposed to. While there was no downtime, users may have seen an error.
  8. Updated Learning Objects tools (blog, wiki, podcast) to fix a couple issues.
  9. Graph of latest performance numbers: http://bit.ly/wpdyZ
  10. nearly 7 million page views this week, average host latency 218ms.
  11. Blackboard performance looking good for last week. average page time back under 300ms, peak times still a little higher than desired
  12. Another week another graph Blackboard Performance numbers for the 2nd week: http://bit.ly/h0Wib
  13. good performance numbers from last week. haven't published the graph yet, but usage nearly doubled.
  14. Blackboard Updates were completed by 11:30 AM. This system is online and working well after the patches.
  15. working to get the blackboard updates completed
  16. Reminder - Blackboard will be down for updates Sunday 8AM - Noon
  17. Learn how we are working to improve experience with virtualization technology and high use applications like blackboard http://bit.ly/v8XON
  18. Interesting stats on Blackboard usage. 80% of UK students in a blackboard course this term. 36% of teaching faculty in BB.
  19. First Week Stats: more students, more usage, better performance: http://bit.ly/46h5l
  20. Blackboard Scheduled Outage for Sunday September 6th 2009 from 8 am to Noon