by Christine Monnier | Dec 17, 2025 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, SaaS
First off, allow me to gloat for a second. I have completed the accessibility remediation of one of my course shells (see my previous blog posts on fixing my low-scoring issues and my medium-scoring issues): Behold! There are a couple of high-scoring items that remain...
by Christine Monnier | Dec 3, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Features, Guest Blogger, SaaS
As mentioned before, now that we are no longer self-hosting Blackboard but using SaaS, Blackboard can push new features all the time. There are two new things that are coming up very shortly that I wanted to highlight here. Fine-Tuning Your Discussion Parameters The...
by Christina Sabo | Jan 25, 2022 | Blackboard, Featured, SaaS
The migration is complete and Blackboard’s back! So what can you do now that it’s back up? Well, the answer is, whatever you want!Blackboard is fully operational and everything should be working just as it was prior to the SaaS migration. You can get started with your...
by Christina Sabo | Dec 7, 2021 | Blackboard, Featured, SaaS
Blackboard will be down from December 23rd until no later than January 17th while course content, zDevs, and Organizations are migrated to the SaaS systemThis means that all of these things will be completely offline and unavailable until Blackboard is back...
by Christina Sabo | Nov 16, 2021 | Blackboard, Featured, SaaS
Between the Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 terms, the College will be migrating Blackboard from our self-hosted instance to a cloud-based SaaS instance (you can learn more about what that entails here). This migration means that two important things will be...
by Christina Sabo | Nov 2, 2021 | Blackboard, Featured, SaaS
Due to storage limitations on the Blackboard SaaS system we will be migrating to over Winter Break (learn more about SaaS here), IT will need to remove courses from FA19 and SP20 from our system earlier than the usual deletion dates. Courses from these terms will be...
