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

8/2/2008 by Elliot Lee | Filed in Travel | No Comments

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

5/12/2008 by Elliot Lee | Filed in Travel | 1 Comment

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…