OES has a regular maintenance window set for December 21, 2017. During this time there will be multiple updates and patches applied. There will be a downtime of approximately 8 -12 hours and should begin in the early morning hours and may extend into the early afternoon.
This list reflects some of the upcoming updates that will be part of the Winter 2017 Break. These are some of the issues and the issues these updates address by Blackboard institutions in general and may not be applicable to KCKCC instance.
Issues Resolved
- Embedded Video Content Items Give Errors
- Issue Description: When inserting a video from the Content Collection in the text editor using Firefox or Internet Explorer, where the video is the only element in the editor, the video tag is deleted. Additionally, when copying a course, all videos embedded via the text editor become unavailable. An “invalid source” message displays in the player.
- Clickable Area for Multiple Choice Answers is Extended to the Maximum Character Length of the Field
- Issue Description: The clickable area of an answer to Multiple Choice questions extends to the maximum length of the text field.
- SCORM Item Throwing a Fatal Error has Occurred Communication with the Server has been lost Error
- Issue Description: When attempting to access a SCORM item (for example scored SoftChalk), an error occurs: Fatal Error has Occurred Communication with the Server has been lost.
- Cannot Reorder Grade Center Columns
- Issue Description: When attempting to re-order columns in the Grade Center, a User is unable to use the drag/drop functionality.
- Spellcheck Flags Corrected Words or Parts of Words as Misspelled and does not Refresh
- Outcomes Collection Grabbing Data from Courses not part of Term Selection
- Issue Description: The Outcomes Collection is collecting data from Courses not in the Term Selections.
- Line Spacing in the VTBE is not Consistent with Displayed Text
- Issue Description: The line spacing displayed in the VTBE (Visual Text editor) while editing a content item does not match the displayed text of the content item. The line spacing in the VTBE is double spaced text, and in the content item the text is single spaced.
- Unable to Answer Fill in Multiple Blank and Jumbled Sentence Questions Using Mouse
- Issue Description: When taking a Test that contains Fill in the Multiple Blank and Jumbled Sentence questions, Students are not able to answer them using the mouse.
- Embedded Media Controls Unresponsive in Test Questions
- Issue Description: When embedded media is added to a Test Question in the VTBE using the “Insert/Edit Embedded Media” button, the media controls are unresponsive to the Student.
- Users not Getting Emails While Subscribed to Discussion Board Forum
- Issue Description: Discussion Boards allows for a User to Subscribe to a Forum. When a Thread is added, the User should receive an email with those details. However, Users are not receiving these emails.
- Embedded Media does not play when used as a Question in Assessments
- Issue Description: Questions created in Assessments using Embedded Media will not play when a User tries to interact with that resource while taking the Assessment.
New Features
- Chemistry Notation Support using a new version of the editor. Includes tools specific to chemistry.
- More efficient Grade Center cleanup including multiple column deleting
- Crocodoc to New Box View integration