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Resolved issues from 9.0 to 9.1 A resolved issue is a software problem from an earlier version of Blackboard Learn that has been fixed in Blackboard Learn Release 9.1. Issues that have been found in Blackboard Academic Suite or Blackboard Learn but have not yet been resolved are reported as Known Issues . The Resolved Issues table provides the following information: Key. An internal ID number used to track this issue within Blackboard. Please refer to this number when contacting Blackboard Product Support about a specific issue. Component. The system within Blackboard Learn to which this issue is related. For example, if an issue is related to the adding Announcements, it will be located in the Announcements subsystem. This report is sorted by subsystem. Release Note. A brief synopsis of the issue and a workaround if applicable. Please contact Blackboard Support if you have additional questions about a specific issue. Issue Began. The earliest version where the issue was found to exist. Severity. The impact of this issue on the application. TIP: To sort the list, click on the column header. Key Component/s Release Note Issue Began Severity AS- 126554 Adaptive Release of Content (Learning System) When access to an item depends on two or more adaptive release rules, the user may incorrectly not be allowed access to the item in specific rare situations, depending on the order of rule creation. This issue occurs on Unix only. Release 7.2 SP1 2 - High AS- 118945 Adaptive Release of Content (Learning System) The Adaptive Release Map in the Performance Dashboard is not displaying the correct Available/Unavailable visibility icon for the discussion board forums. Visibility for other items is displayed properly. Release 7.3 GA 3 - Medium AS- 135226 Adaptive Release of Content (Learning System) Assignment submission files with double-byte characters for the name become corrupt and cannot be downloaded. Release 8.0 SP5 3 - Medium AS- 137130 Adaptive Release of Content (Learning System) In you use adaptive release on an item and browse to select individual members, the pagination breaks after the first 25 users. You cannot "show all" or click to view the second or subsequent pages - the member list is just not displayed. Release 9.0 SP1 3 - Medium AS- 131004 Address Book While in Edit Mode, there is no visual indicator as to which contacts have been made available and which have not. This is inconsistent with other visual indicators across the application. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium AS- 131002 Address Book When creating / editing a contact and using HTML code in the "Notes" field, the source code is displayed instead of hyperlinks Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium AS- 111098 Administration (Learning System) Instructors disabled by snapshot still appear in the system admin course search results. Release 7.2 SP1 3 - Medium AS- 124113 Administration (Learning System) Administration: When attempting to inject malicious scripts into frameset.jsp, the "Address Not Found" error message displays instead of the "Contact the System Administrator" message. Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High AS- 125154 Administration (Learning System) Administration: Within a learning module, the content view displays the full contents of each item instead of just the name as hyperlink. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium AS- 131611 Administration (Learning System) When using spell check feature in VTBE, if there are no spelling errors there are two confirmations that there are no spelling errors. Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low AS- 130221 Administration (Learning System) When hovering over the icons to move to the next page, the screen always displays 'Next Page." The ones on the end should read 'First page' and 'Last Page'. Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low AS- Administration (Learning While creating a course event , it's not clear that Event Date and Event Release 3 - Medium

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Resolved issues from 9.0 to 9.1 A resolved issue is a software problem from an earlier version of Blackboard Learn that has been fixed in Blackboard Learn Release 9.1. Issues that have been found in Blackboard Academic Suite or Blackboard Learn but have not yet been resolved are reported as Known Issues. The Resolved Issues table provides the following information:

• Key. An internal ID number used to track this issue within Blackboard. Please refer to this number when contacting Blackboard Product Support about a specific issue.

• Component. The system within Blackboard Learn to which this issue is related. For example, if an issue is related to the adding Announcements, it will be located in the Announcements subsystem. This report is sorted by subsystem.

• Release Note. A brief synopsis of the issue and a workaround if applicable. Please contact Blackboard Support if you have additional questions about a specific issue.

• Issue Began. The earliest version where the issue was found to exist. • Severity. The impact of this issue on the application.

TIP: To sort the list, click on the column header.

Key Component/s Release Note Issue Began Severity

AS-126554

Adaptive Release of Content (Learning System)

When access to an item depends on two or more adaptive release rules, the user may incorrectly not be allowed access to the item in specific rare situations, depending on the order of rule creation. This issue occurs on Unix only.

Release 7.2 SP1 2 - High

AS-118945

Adaptive Release of Content (Learning System)

The Adaptive Release Map in the Performance Dashboard is not displaying the correct Available/Unavailable visibility icon for the discussion board forums. Visibility for other items is displayed properly.

Release 7.3 GA 3 - Medium

AS-135226

Adaptive Release of Content (Learning System)

Assignment submission files with double-byte characters for the name become corrupt and cannot be downloaded.

Release 8.0 SP5 3 - Medium

AS-137130

Adaptive Release of Content (Learning System)

In you use adaptive release on an item and browse to select individual members, the pagination breaks after the first 25 users. You cannot "show all" or click to view the second or subsequent pages - the member list is just not displayed.

Release 9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-131004 Address Book

While in Edit Mode, there is no visual indicator as to which contacts have been made available and which have not. This is inconsistent with other visual indicators across the application.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-131002 Address Book When creating / editing a contact and using HTML code in the "Notes"

field, the source code is displayed instead of hyperlinks Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-111098

Administration (Learning System)

Instructors disabled by snapshot still appear in the system admin course search results.

Release 7.2 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-124113

Administration (Learning System)

Administration: When attempting to inject malicious scripts into frameset.jsp, the "Address Not Found" error message displays instead of the "Contact the System Administrator" message.

Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-125154

Administration (Learning System)

Administration: Within a learning module, the content view displays the full contents of each item instead of just the name as hyperlink.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-131611

Administration (Learning System)

When using spell check feature in VTBE, if there are no spelling errors there are two confirmations that there are no spelling errors.

Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-130221

Administration (Learning System)

When hovering over the icons to move to the next page, the screen always displays 'Next Page." The ones on the end should read 'First page' and 'Last Page'.

Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS- Administration (Learning While creating a course event , it's not clear that Event Date and Event Release 3 - Medium

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130036 System) Time are required fields. 9.0 GA AS-129743

Administration (Learning System)

System Performance Settings summary says "summary goes here" and there is no actual summary

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-129140

Administration (Learning System)

When migrating from CE 4 to Bb 9.0 some course information is lost because the text body is copied into the name field. This truncates the text containing course instructions.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-130128

Administration (Learning System)

When a user searches for a single course and deletes it from the system using the UI, the course is successfully deleted, however they also receive the message "The search field cannot be left blank when paired with the Starts with search operator type." This only occurs when the administrator has left the search open for an extended period of time prior to deleting the course.

Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-134567

Administration (Learning System)

After submitting a test there is too much white space between the notification to click the OK button and the actual button.

Release 9.0 SP1 4 - Low

AS-136876

Administration (Learning System)

After clicking System Admin>Classes>Class Settings>Icon Themes, there are no options under Select Icon Theme.

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-123086

Administration (Learning System)

After typing criteria in the Search criteria, hitting enter does not force a search. A user has to click the Go button

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-140270

Administration (Learning System) Course/Organization Management (Learning System)

System Administrators enrolled within a Course or Organization may be have their privileges demoted by the Instructor or Leader. The Instructor or Leader should not be able to remove or change privileges for a System Administrator user.

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-134123

Administration (Learning System) Search (Learning System)

Using 'Search Catalog by Description' returns a database error when the course description is over 2000 characters.

Release 8.0 SP5 3 - Medium

AS-140285

Administration (Learning System) Snapshot

Large enrollment files processed via snapshot can cause performance issues.

Release 9.0 SP1

1 - Showstopper

AS-107558 Announcements When an announcement is created with a course link, the link fails to

export or archive, if the destination of the link has a space in the name. Release 7.1 SP2 3 - Medium

AS-115124 Announcements Guest users are unable to view the Announcements area of the Course

even when Guest access is enabled for that area. Release 7.1 SP2 3 - Medium

AS-126574 Announcements Environments with a RAC configurations do not send Email Alerts for

Announcements in certain conditions. Release 8.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-134981 Announcements If a user creates more than one announcement in an unavailable course,

a database error will occur if a user tries to delete an announcement Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-132554 Announcements

When creating an announcment users cannot add a course link to a contact. An error message is displayed: STAFFINFORMATION of class: blackboard.data.content.Link$ReferredToType

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-132086 Announcements

When viewing System announcements or All announcements from within a course while edit mode is ON, an error occurs: Error ID c4bcec84-4b09-4a40-aac1-a8c7daaa7d86

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-131006 Announcements

The grader role can not see the Announcements tool under the Course Tools menu,. The announcements tool should be visible to the grader role from the course control panel. But there is no ability to add/update/delete

Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-130994 Announcements If a course/organization is made unavailable the instructor or any other

role other than student cannot view/modify announcements. Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

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AS-130030 Announcements

Creating a Course Link to "Contacts" from an Announcement displays incorrectly. The link displays as "/@[email protected]@X@" but still links to the "Contacts" tool.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-132847 Announcements

When a user edits an announcement, the "posted on" date no longer shows. This also causes the announcement to no longer show in the announcements module on the course homepage.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-140549 Announcements

Embedded javascript in the VTBE editor in Announcements is not getting executed. This is occurring with any javascript used and is found when embedding a Mashup, resulting in the Mashup not rendering.

Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-132176

Announcements Content System

Adding a Content System image to an Announcement causes a login popup window forcing the user to log in twice.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-112596

Announcements Email (Learning System)

Regardless of the start date parameter, an Announcement that has been configured to notify Students by email will automatically email the Students,

Release 7.2 GA 3 - Medium

AS-141808

API (Learning System) Building Blocks Content System - API Course Files

Any content authoring Building Block tool that uses CourseContentFileManager API, is now able to successfully create or edit existing content.

Release 9.1 Beta

1 - Showstopper

AS-141628

API (Learning System) Building Blocks Content System - API Course Files

The CourseContentFileManager API is not functioning as expected. Some of the building block impacts are content authoring toolswill not function and inconsistencies with storage of course files.

Release 9.1 Beta

1 - Showstopper

AS-122367

API (Learning System) Modules (Community System)

After updating a building block, the custom module data is lost and the portal no longer appears on the portal page

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-133985

Arch CE4 - Community System Integration Arch CE4 - User Management Arch Vista - Community System Integration Arch Vista - User Management

For CE and Vista clients running the LEC user integration is expected to create a new primary Institution Role. The integration is instead assigning the Integration Institution Role as a secondary role, which is limiting users ability to access the system.

Release 8.0 SP4 3 - Medium

AS-124122

Arch CE4 - Frameset Arch Vista - Frameset

Integration: In an integrated environment, when SSO is used to access converted/proxied CE4 courses, the user is sent to a "conversion in progress" error page on the CE4 server.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-123342

Arch CE4 - User Management Arch Vista - User Management

Integration: In an integrated environment, an extra column called "Learning Environment" should display in the Users list to identify each user's native learning environment, such as Blackboard Learn or CE4. If the results of your search include users from only one environment, this column will not display.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-133984

Arch CE4 - User Management Arch Vista - User Management

For CE/Vista users integrated with Bb9, if the user ID is subsequently changed (after integration) either through the SIS or Admin Screen, the user ID change does not show up/reflect in Bb9. However, what the user sees and uses for login in Bb9 is still the original user ID.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-124118 Arch Course Conversion

Integration: In an integrated environment, new courses created using an existing proxy-SIS/XML feed are not cross-listed correctly. In CE4, all courses are created and converted but the cross-listing relationship is not established. In CE8/Vista, child courses are created and converted but the parent course is not and remains an unconverted course.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS- Arch Course Conversion This issue is specific to the CE4 course conversion. The title of the Release 3 - Medium

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129617 Learning Module page is breaking the content after conversion. The conversion should convert the Textblocks into content within the VTBE.

9.0 GA

AS-140706

Arch Course Conversion Assessments (Learning System) Course Conversion

After importing a course archive from CE/Vista 8.0.x where the Assessments tool is hidden but a link appears on the Home Page, the assessment link on the home page works initially.. However, it breaks after toggling the Assessment tools visibility to hide, then available again.

Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

AS-129205

Arch Vista - Authentication and Session Management

Integrating Vista and Bb 9.0 user sessions fails if the servers are not on the same sub-domain.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-124364

Arch Vista - Content System Integration

Integration (Firefox 3.0 only): For Arch Vista users, when a user clicks the "Browse" button on the Copy 'Item' page, the select folder dialog box opens displaying a blank page, does not close automatically, and the destination field remains blank.

Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-129073

Arch Vista - Content System Integration

The Course Content area is not displayed in an integrated Content Collection environment for a Section Teaching Assistant.

Release 8.0 SP4 2 - High

AS-133413

Arch Vista - Course Management

For Vista courses the sourcedid.id is not unique enough from courses in other Vista installations. Blackboard LEC converts the sourcedid.id to batch_uids in the Blackboard database and does no other type of prefix. This results in a course collision in the co-production models combining multiple Vista Institutions.

Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-132271

Arch Vista - Course Management

The Course List Module does not display the term information and date of term. This is a parity issue for CE 8 and Vista 8 users that are moving courses over via LEC or Course Conversion.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-132270

Arch Vista - Course Management

When using LEC, a user cannot hide Sections in the Courses Module under the <LEC> tab. This functionality was available on the My Blackboard page in CE/Vista

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-142185

Arch Vista - Course Management

Courses moved from CE/Vista using the Learning Environment Connector do not output detailed content exchange logs to the course directory archive.

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-136485

Arch Vista - System Integration

Any call to the ContextSDK.getCurrentSession().getCurrentLCID() method in the PowerLinks API returns an incorrect Learning Context identifier (LCID) when used in co-production with Release 9.0.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-125306

Assessments (Learning System)

Assessments: The "Survey taken previously" page is displayed for the student who answered all the questions and only saved the answers despite the fact that the 'Prohibit Backtracking' option was selected.

Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-133252

Assessments (Learning System)

The instructions in a timed assessment inform students that the timer is at the top right of the window, when in fact the timer now appears below the instructions. Knowledge Base

Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-131266

Assessments (Learning System)

IE6 and IE7 throw a Java Null Pointer exception when trying to edit Assessments. In this case Assessments can only be edited through Firefox or Safari.

Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-140288

Assessments (Learning System)

Performance issue: In courses with a large number of question pools, it can take over 15 minutes to reuse a question

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-136006

Assessments (Learning System) Modifying Test properties disables statistics tracking for that item Release

9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-141471

Assessments (Learning System)

The Submit button should be in the white, not dark gray bottom of the Random Block/Find Questions page.

Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

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AS-141381

Assessments (Learning System)

In the Test Canvas, when clicking Cancel or Submit in Question Settings, a user receives an error with HTML display.

Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-141079

Assessments (Learning System)

When a student is taking a test, has skipped multiple questions and clicks "Save and Submit", a prompt is displayed providing the question numbers not answered. The question numbers in the prompt are not displayed in numeric order.

Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

AS-136836

Assessments (Learning System)

When an instructor previews an assessment, there is a message indicating that the preview is treated as an attempt by the system. Previewing a test does not count as an attempt.

Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-141962

Assessments (Learning System) Building Blocks Building Blocks - Premier Partner

After removing the Acxiom building block , users receive error messages when accessing tests.

Release 9.0 SP2 2 - High

AS-131654

Assessments (Learning System) Grade Center

Double-byte characters are not properly supported when downloading Assessment Results.

Release 8.0 SP4 3 - Medium

AS-126767

Assessments (Learning System) Peer Assessment

In a Self and Peer Assessment, teachers cannot view more than one evaluation for a particular student.

Release 8.0 SP3 3 - Medium

AS-140303

Assessments (Learning System) UI Infrastructure

When a user saves the test before they have entered in all of the answers and then later completes the test and clicks "Save and Submit", they will receive an error message: "Question may be incomplete: {0}. Continue?"

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-94689

Assignments (Learning System)

Users that access an Assignment through a Learning Unit and then complete (or cancel) the Assignment are sent to a page that displays the Learning Unit content and two navigation paths (nested frames), instead of returning to the appropriate location.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-100051

Assignments (Learning System)

After importing a test pool package in a multiple language pack, the line breaks in the question text created by the <pre></pre> tags were removed.

Release 7.1 GA 3 - Medium

AS-101562

Assignments (Learning System)

If an Assessment uses randomized question display order and allows multiple attempts, the Assessment cannot be attempted twice within the same browser session. The user must logout and close the browser, then log back in. Otherwise, the Assessment cannot be accessed again and displays the message "Assessment contains no questions; it cannot be taken."

Release 7.1 SP1 2 - High

AS-112392

Assignments (Learning System)

When provide Feedback to User for a Grade Column, attaching a file does not result in a visual confirmation that the file is correctly uploaded.

Release 7.2 SP1 2 - High

AS-119739

Assignments (Learning System)

The Assignment File Download leaves files orphaned in course Gradebook directory.

Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-129453

Assignments (Learning System)

Users in Internet Explorer 8 are unable to save or submit timed tests due to the timer box covering the entire right hand side of the page so students are unable to access the save button.

Release 8.0 SP4 3 - Medium

AS-135464

Assignments (Learning System)

The "Submission History" page title is rendered incorrectly upon an assignment submission when any double-byte character language pack is in use.

Release 9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-141813

Assignments (Learning System)

Unable to modify the Link title of an Attachment in an existing Assignment.

Release 9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-140274

Assignments (Learning System)

Student's were able to submit multiple documents to Assignments with identical names. This was causing an error when the instructor would

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

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attempt to download the files.

AS-136781

Assignments (Learning System)

If an assignment name has a hash symbol (#) in it, a user will encounter a 404 error when attempting to download submissions from the Gradecenter.

Release 9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-92654 Authentication

If a user logs out of Blackboard but does not close the browser, the back button will return the user to the login page instead of showing an access denied message.

Release 7.3 GA 3 - Medium

AS-108286 Authentication

With web server delegation (integrated windows authentication), when attempting to add a Test, a window pops up that states that a username and password is required. Depending upon the JVM version that the user has installed, different required fields are displayed in the login popup window. An older version will have two fields: username and password. A newer version will have three fields: username, password, and domain. It is not necessary to enter the domain, if you put in a username and password and select ok, it still will log you in. If 'No' is selected the window returns. If you no information is entered and 'Yes' is selected, the window will disappear and the user can continue.

Release 7.1 GA 3 - Medium

AS-140314 Authentication

For Users using a browser with a proxy enabled, the response does not contain any cache-control directives. Many users coming from the intranet inside the university are using a proxy. Open up a RDC connection to the clients live server via the credentials provided Access the webpage viaconfigure IE (using http-proxy.fu-berlin.de) on the server Internet Explorer 6.0 1. On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options, click the Connections tab, and then click LAN Settings. 2. Under Proxy server, click to select the Use a proxy server for your LAN check box. 3. In the Address box, type the IP address of the proxy server. 4. Click OK to close the LAN Settings dialog box. 5. Click OK again to close the Internet Options dialog box. You will see another account name on the "My Institution Page". However, a shift reload in the frame will show your name unless an other users will use shift reload in the frame. Client investigation: The time you see in the response header is not corresponding with the server time.

Release 7.1 SP1

1 - Showstopper

AS-137919 Authentication There is a security vulnerability in SSL Cookies in blackboard, that

allow for a man-in-the-middle attack. Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-140280

Authentication Course/Organization (Content System) Course/Organization Management (Learning System) Entitlements Organizations (Community System) Privileges: Guest Access Roles: Guest Management

Security: A Guest can gain access to areas of the Content System that do not have guest access enabled by using the link provided to authenticated users.

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS- Blogs Blogs: The Group Blog topic data is not displayed on the Blogs list Release 2 - High

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125261 page for an imported organization. 9.0 GA

AS-130678 Blogs Discussion Board

When a user's first and last name are edited, the blog entries and discussion board posts that refer to that user's name will be immediately updated, instead of updated after a specified cache time has expired. The default cache interval has also been reduced from 24 hours to 15 minutes.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-124978

Brands (Community System) Brands: The Web Tab cannot be renamed. Release

9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-129456

Brands (Community System)

External Links in the top right 'Hotlinks' corner of the 'My Institution Page' will open only in the top frame. The link should be opened in the lower frame.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-142294

Brands (Community System)

Although a user may select another color, the text color of a brand remains white.

Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-120653 Building Blocks

Scholar Registration: An error page is displayed stating that "java.lang.Exception: There was problem connecting to the Blackboard Scholar Server. Please try again later. There was problem connecting to the Blackboard Scholar Server. Please try again later.".

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-136777

Building Blocks - Mashups

Enabling security within the NBC Building Block causes the Mash-up content items to no longer function.

Release 9.1 Beta

1 - Showstopper

AS-131674

Building Blocks Building Blocks Management

The building block developer role doesn't allow the upload or the delete of building blocks. Even though they have acces to the areas to perform this functions, a message is received stating that they do not have appropriate privileges.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-123499

Building Blocks Management

Building Blocks: If your list of Building Blocks in the Administrator Panel spans multiple pages, making a change to a Building Block will return you to page 1. You will have to navigate back to the appropriate page.

Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-114819

Calendar Collaboration Tools (Learning System) Language Packs

Collaboration tools do not work when system language pack is changed to en_US_k12 .

Release 7.3 GA 2 - High

AS-132718 Cartridges

The "Student Access Code" field for a cartridge course is limited to 25 characters. This prevents students from entering the full access key for some courses.

Release 9.0 GA

1 - Showstopper

AS-120619

Catalog: Course/Organization (Learning System)

Unable to add a new category to multiple courses with existing categories through the user interface

Release 8.0 SP3 3 - Medium

AS-105912 Chalkbox In Courses with Chalk titles, the "Access Eduspace" course tool does

not prompt the user to enter an access code Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-105065

Collaboration Tools (Learning System)

Existing and created Collaboration sessions are not preserved after the restoration of a Course.

Release 7.1 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-115387

Collaboration Tools (Learning System)

The instructor does not allow Private Messaging, however, students can still double click on the name in the Participant box to send a private message.

Release 7.3 SP1 2 - High

AS-126766

Collaboration Tools (Learning System)

The Collaboration Suite does not run under SSL unless a configuration change is made. See the Knowledge Base

Release 8.0 SP3

1 - Showstopper

AS-128119

Collaboration Tools (Learning System) JVM crashes when connecting to the Collab server over SSL. Release

9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-135460

Collaboration Tools (Learning System) User can now search Collaboration Sessions by date. Release

9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

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AS-133076

Collaboration Tools (Learning System) Installation/Uninstallation

Admins are unable to upgrade the Collaboration Server when there is another system in a load-balanced install already running.

Release 8.0 SP3 3 - Medium

AS-126371

Collaboration Tools (Learning System) Language Packs

After upgrading from 8.0 to 9.0 some language files for Collaboration Tools are missing. The BuildCollabLocaleJar.sh script used to build these files but is no longer available.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-128415 Community System Security: Attacks can be launched against Blackboard via the frameset

allowing an external URL parameter to be passed. Release 8.0 SP4 2 - High

AS-126200 Community System Security vulnerability of allowing a redirect external URLs to be

displayed within the Blackboard frame set. Release 8.0 SP4 2 - High

AS-131732 Configuration

Changing the bbconfig.webserver.portnumber property does not result in the listen port changing. Apache still listens on port 80, though the application attempts to direct you to the newly configured port.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-93656

Content (Learning System)

Microsoft Publisher files are not viewable from the Drop Box without saving the file to the local machine.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-107911

Content (Learning System)

When a user sets a link to open in a New Window and then from that link have another link set to open in a New Window, this second link will open in the initial new window, not in a 3rd window. This error is isolated on Internet Explorer Web browsers. If the user right-clicks the link and chooses Open in New Window it works fine.

Release 7.2 GA 3 - Medium

AS-135760

Content (Learning System)

A client in an LEC environment and using Content Collection is unable to use the File Copy or Move functionality.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-131542

Content (Learning System)

IE Only: Attaching 3 or more files to a content item causes the items to wrap incorrectly when resizing the window. The names are misaligned and should be wrapped correctly onto the next line.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-131261

Content (Learning System)

When deleting a 'Content Area' the Content System is inconsistent with the confirmation dialogs. Deleting a content area gives one or two confirmation dialogs depending on how the user deleted it.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-130655

Content (Learning System)

Attempting to view an empty learning module that resides in a parent folder results in viewing items in the parent folder. A message "Learning Module is empty" should be presented so the user does not think the parent folder contents are in the learning module.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-130288

Content (Learning System) Removing a Content Area Module within a course produces error Release

9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-128299

Content (Learning System)

A Learning Module is built with an external link to content. When the external link is accessed within a Learning Module were causing the navigation links for the Learning Module disappear.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-140774

Content (Learning System)

As a file is being prepared for download from within the content area, the title of the file shows as "contentWrapper.jsp". When the Save As window appears, the name of the file is populated as "contentWrapper.htm" instead of the actual document title.

Release 9.0 SP2 2 - High

AS-143228

Content (Learning System)

When a Content Type (i.e. Item or Learning Module) is copied from one course to another using the Copy feature for that Content Type within the Content Area, the permissions in Course Files are not updated.

Release 9.1 Beta

1 - Showstopper

AS-101233

Content (Learning System) Navigation / Breadcrumb (Learning System)

Users attempting to add a Assessment or Survey from a Learning Unit may generate a second navigation path in the header for the Learning Unit. This breadcrumb may be visible to users attempting to take the Assessment or Survey.

Release 7.1 SP1 3 - Medium

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AS-128071

Content Exchange (Learning System)

The CMS folder and its files are not included in the zip packaged when a course archive is created.

Release 7.3 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-128435

Content Exchange (Learning System)

Instructors and group members are sometimes demoted to forum participants on restored courses.

Release 8.0 SP2 2 - High

AS-129043

Content Exchange (Learning System)

Archiving some courses through the GUI fails with a 'Java heap space' error. Most courses can be archived on the backend but some exceptions still exist.

Release 8.0 SP4 2 - High

AS-140139

Content Exchange (Learning System) Passwords are included in course archives regardless of role Release

9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-133131

Content Exchange (Learning System)

When migrating from CE 8 to Bb 9.0: restoring a CE 8 course to Bb 9.0 loses some columns in the Grade Center. Learning Modules and course files can also be lost. This only occurs when the System Default Locale is en_US_pro or _k12.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-120788

Content Exchange (Learning System)

Content Exchange: When adding Content System files to a Course (either through a link to the item or an imported package), students might not be granted the appropriate permissions to access the material.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-143287

Content Exchange (Learning System)

The source path of images do not properly convert when a courses is Imported or Restored to a new server.

Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-100656

Content Exchange (Learning System) Gradebook (Learning System)

After an Archive and Restore of a Course, Override grades previously entered before the Archive and Restore are not retained.

Release 7.1 GA 3 - Medium

AS-122068 Content System Uploading files into the Content System triggers a Unix change mode

permission change to 0600 on that file. Release 7.3 GA 2 - High

AS-129378 Content System

In Content Collection, a specific user's permissions are overwritten in all sub-folders even while the "Overwrite Permissions" option is not selected.

Release 7.3 SP2 2 - High

AS-125761 Content System After a Content Collection item is shared amongst multiple courses, the

courses do not update when the Content Collection item is updated. Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-126399 Content System Content passes created on folders which have spaces anywhere in the

path do not work. Release 8.0 SP3 3 - Medium

AS-126376 Content System

Non-privileged users are able to view other user's files in Public Content Recycle bin when public read permissions have not been granted, and when public read permissions are granted, non-privileged users are also able to restore other user's files from Recycle bin.

Release 8.0 SP3 3 - Medium

AS-128824 Content System The Content System will not enable versioning after the initial upload

for '.docx' or '.xlsx' files (i.e. Microsoft Office 2007 files). Release 8.0 SP4 2 - High

AS-128090 Content System Users are experiencing a http Status 500 error message when they click

on the 360 View for a folder in Content Collection. Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-133100 Content System

The text on page for Performance Settings (Admin Panel > Technical Settings > Performance Settings) shows that the statement cache should be enabled by default, however it is disabled on R9 systems.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-132278 Content System In the icon legend for the Course Link Checker tool, {strSeparator} is

shown where it should show a semicolon. Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-132277 Content System Course Link Checker indicates repairable permissions errors for files

with correct permissions Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-132034 Content System In the icon legend for the Course Link Checker tool, {strSeparator} is

shown where it should show a colon. Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

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AS-129383 Content System

When a user accesses a Course that does not have any content linked to the Content Collection a misleading message is displayed: "You do not have access to the content for this course." The message should reflect that no content exists rather than saying the user doesn't have access.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-142207 Content System After importing content and then sending it to the recycle bin, the

recycle bin never clears and the content remains there using quota. Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

AS-132797

Content System - Basic Portfolios

Editing an available Basic Portfolio Item automatically changes the availibility from Yes to No, which may cause problems if the user is unaware.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-132667

Content System - Basic Portfolios Privileges: General

Read permissions are not set correctly when adding content to a basic portfolio and clicking 'Submit and Add Metadata'.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-129613

Content System - Bookmarks

If there are no bookmarks present in content system and a user clicks on My Places, an error is recorded in the bb-services-log.txt file. Functionality is not impacted but the error is an unnecessary addition to the log file.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-128098 Content System - Content

Content: The removed permissions for a user still display on the Manage Permissions page. To work around this issue, set the permissions using the contextual menu that is next to the desired user instead of the "Select Specific Users" button.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-134561 Content System - Content After adding a content link a user must scroll to see submit/cancel

buttons Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-132276 Content System - Content When viewing the Course Link Checker, a row is shifted to the left one

cell if a file is missing for that row. Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-131775 Content System - Content

It is not clear what upper limits should exist for the "File Cache Size" setting in the Content System Performance Settings. Set too high, this value can crash the application. A limit should be set or better guidelines need to be given.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-131725 Content System - Content

WMA files added from a content collection are given an incorrect mime-type of x-wav causing Quicktime or other players to take over instead of Windows Media Player

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-129385 Content System - Content

Content system folders containing an ampersand (&) result in java.lang.NullPointerException when trying to create an external link in the folder

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-126339

Content System - eReserves

All files uploaded to the Library portion of the Content Collection disappear. The files can be restored from backup, but, as a result, all users have the ability to remove this directory.

Release 7.3 SP1 2 - High

AS-132851

Content System - Learning Objects Catalog

Going to the Learning Object Catalog as an unauthenticated viewer causes the main entry page to reload within the frame.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-103364

Content System - Portfolio

After sharing a Portfolio to a Course that is deleted, a nameless entry will appear in the Shared list. It is not possible to share the Portfolio to the Course anymore. When you delete the Share, you can share to another Course.

Release 7.1 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-107943

Content System - Portfolio A Personal Portfolio shared with an external users cannot be removed. Release

7.2 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-113168

Content System - Portfolio

In Content Collection, users can search file/folder names that contain Chinese characters via Basic Search. However, it does not work in portfolio names when searching portfolios with Chinese characters.

Release 7.3 GA 3 - Medium

AS- Content System - Security vulnerability within the personal portfolio enabling user Release 2 - High

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123692 Portfolio account hijacking. 7.3 SP1

AS-126065

Content System - Portfolio

When a header or footer in a personal portfolio template is created with the option "Allow Author to Edit" set to Yes, the header/footer is not present in a final portfolio created from the template.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-131738

Content System - Portfolio

In the content system, header and footers disappear after editing the style of an existing portfolio.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-126405

Content System - WebDAV

Users with windows vista and IE 7 are unable to drag and drop with the content system webdav, my folder, but can use the add item functionalty

Release 7.3 GA 2 - High

AS-119712

Content System - WebDAV

Users are not presented with WebDAV instructions when using browsers other than Internet Explorer.

Release 7.3 SP2 4 - Low

AS-126403

Content System - WebDAV

If a folder has been sent via a pass in the content System, the recepient will receive a prompts for a username and password when trying to access the webfolder option. The user will not be able to open or map to the webfolder.

Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-131168

Content System - WebDAV

When opening a WebDAV folder with Internet Explorer, a user receives a 405 error if they do not use the fully qualified domain name. This is not an issue in 9.0.

Release 8.0 SP5 2 - High

AS-140290

Content System - WebDAV

While trying to create Network places in Explorer, the URL is shortened omitting the username and a user cannot access the folder.

Release 8.0 SP5 2 - High

AS-123926

Content System - WebDAV

WebDav (Firefox 3 only): When a user clicks "Open Web Folder" in the upper-right corner of the Content System, a group folder is created instead of a user-specific folder.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-140292

Content System - WebDAV

A user receives an error message when using the My Network Places as instructed to connect to a WebDAV path

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-131617

Content System - WebDAV

After upgrading to 9.0 files/folders with 'Public' permissions prompt for authentication.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-126902

Content System - WebDAV

Content System - WebDAV: WebDAV is not functioning properly on a client Mac machine.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-143035

Content System - WebDAV

When files are uploaded to WebDAV through drag and drop, they are unable to be edited.

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-136682

Content System - WebDAV

We no longer see an error message "The folder you entered does not appear to be valid. Please choose another." in Windows XP when you try to add a Web Folder (WebDAV).

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-140482

Content System - WebDAV

Help associated with "Using Web Folders" (WebDAV) is showing up strange Strings.

Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

AS-136722

Content System - Workflow

After Workflow privileges are disabled, the Collabortation icon is still available when using the Shortcut View for Content System area

Release 9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-126407 Content System - Xythos Xythos error occurs when removing a content item which is associated

with a Learning Object Release 8.0 SP3 3 - Medium

AS-138610

Content System Content System - Content

Users cannot upload into another user's folder using the Blackboard Web interface (Add Item), even if Read/Write/Remove/Manage permission is set.

2 - High

AS-108992

Content System Content System - Content Content System - Content Artifacts Content System - Portfolio

Images that are embedded in an artifact via the VTBE, images that are uploaded to an artifact via "attach local file", and images that link to the content collection all do not show up in a personal portfolio when the portfolio is shared with external users. When a person logs into the system and views the portfolio the images all display correctly.

Release 7.2 GA 3 - Medium

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AS-124873

Content System Content System - Content Content System - Navigation / Breadcrumb

Users cannot access the content collection tab to view documents uploaded to the users courses and library sections.

Release 7.3 GA 3 - Medium

AS-126335

Content System Content System - Search

Users encounter a "Xythos failure" error when searching for content using Content System advanced or basic search.

Release 8.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-123916 Course Conversion

Integration: When converting a Journal from CE6 to Blackboard Learn, the Journal Availability option in Blackboard Learn is set to "NO" only when the Journal Privacy option in the CE6 course package is set to "Private." If the Journal Privacy option is set to "Public," the Journal Availability option in Blackboard Learn will be set to "YES," making the journal available.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-124378 Course Conversion

Integration: When converting a Course from CE4 to Blackboard Learn, selected "Question types" for Quizzes/Surveys in the Create Random Block section are not converted.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-125110 Course Conversion Integration: A Discussion Topic which is unavailable in the CE6

environment is available in the AS environment. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-124939 Course Conversion

Integration: Custom columns are not converted to Topics in Tests, Surveys & Pools for the Restored/Imported CE6 Assessment Database Course package.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-140296 Course Conversion Students are unable to access e-pack courses conveted from CE4 Release

9.0 SP1 1 - Showstopper

AS-136610 Course Conversion

Clicking on links within a Learning Module from a converted CE or Vista course results in the error 'Error:Broken Course Link: Item is unavailable.'

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-126843 Course Conversion

Import of a Vista course package that does not contain attributes for Course Menu colors results in no course title and no course content in destination course.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-121980 Course Conversion

Integration: Blackboard Learn does not support some CE4 course menu colors. Unsupported colors will default to Blackboard Learn system colors.

Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-135190 Course Conversion

Restoring a CE4 file fails if it contains a content object type that the CE export didn't recognize and identified as "UNKNOWN" type during the export. The restore in Release 9 should not fail but should log a warning for the unknown content item and move on to the next content item to be restored.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-143124 Course Conversion When a CE4 course is restored that restored course is restored with a

status of unavailable. Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-142854 Course Conversion After converting a course from CE4 to 9.1, flash movies will not play. Release

9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-142605 Course Conversion Vista course conversion results in html tags displayed in Discussion

Board description field. Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

AS-136937 Course Conversion After converting a course from CE4, test questions are lime green (not

black) when viewed from the control panel. Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-136935 Course Conversion

Course conversion from a Vista or CE course with a menu item called Web Links is not converting because there was not content with in the menu item. The expectation is that all menu items will convert regardless of data being present.

Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS- Course Conversion CE and Vista courses that are converted and displaying the HTML tabs Release 2 - High

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136933 within the discussion board description post conversion. 9.1 Beta AS-136932 Course Conversion After converting a course from CE/Vista, the user is unable to remove

adaptive release rules Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-136840 Course Conversion After converting a course from CE6, Links in HTML do not work

correctly in course content Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-136817 Course Conversion

After converting a course from CE/Vista, the edit mode does not match the state prior to the conversion for an assessment. A user needs multiple clicks to get to the assessment in an editable format.

Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-136811 Course Conversion Extra characters appears on HTML pages after converting a course

from CE6. Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-126655

Course Creation Wizard (Learning System)

The Course Creation Wizard does not carry over template specified course material.

Release 8.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-131656

Course Creation Wizard (Learning System)

When users without course creation permission attempt to use the Course Creation Wizard, they are not denied access until they reach the "Availability and Duration" step.

Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-134044

Course Creation Wizard (Learning System) WYSIWYG

Certain punctuation characters display improperly in course titles. The characters display fine until the title is edited. Then the HTML escape sequence is added as text to the title.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-138216 Course Files

When a user tries to download any non-readable file through the IE 8 browser, a security warning is displayed. The user can choose to ignore the warning and download the file, however the file does not download. This occurs in Standards and Compatibility mode and only once per session. Every download after the first warning succeeds.

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-142509 Course Files

After Course Copy, The Course File's default directory in the destination course is improperly set to the source course's default directory for course files, rather than to the destination course's.

Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

AS-142234 Course Files

Administrator Content link does not appear under Content Collection within the Control Panel by default. For this to display make the following changes to the Virtual Hard Drive settings: System Availability = Yes Available to = Everyone

Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-142483 Course Files

When attaching a file in VTBE and providing a link name to use, the link name is incorrectly being used as the file name as well. This results in the link not working because the file name is now unrecognizable on the system.

Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

AS-143211

Course Files Course/Organization Copy (Learning System)

Course files are not consistently copied to destination course's content collection/file manager area and deletion of original source course is removing course files from their physical location in the destination course.

Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-134392 Course Groups

The instructor of a course receives a "Not Implemented" error when navigating anywhere in the course. This may happen because the instructor is enrolled in more than ten groups.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-140101 Course Wiki

After creating a wiki page, there is a space missing between the name of the page creator and the date stamp.

Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

AS-141877 Course Wiki

A user will receive an error message when creating a wiki if the information is copied from a MS Word doc and pasted into the instructions VTBE.

Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

AS-141880 Course Wiki The Comment button in the wiki should read "Add Comment" instead

of "Comment" to provide clear understanding of the function and action Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

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orientation for screen reader users. AS-141879 Course Wiki Screen readers need to easier navigate the wiki context menus. Release

9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

AS-141873 Course Wiki User is not able to navigate to the text box (points) and enter a grade

using the screen reader. Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-141872 Course Wiki

Radio buttons and check box options on the "Create Wiki" page are not properly wrapped in field sets and hence not being identified properly to Screen Readers

Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-141870 Course Wiki When using a screen reader (JAWS), the Wiki context menu is read in a

continuous loop until JAWS is paused or stopped. Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-137349 Course/Org Roster

If an instructor clicks on Course > Control Panel > Users and Groups > Users, the instructor must select "Not Blank" from the pulldown to see the first page of users enrolled in the course. This last step should not be necessary.

Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

AS-103572

Course/Organization (Content System)

When a Course is Exported or Archived, Course links to top-level folders in Content areas are not. Similarly, Course links to Staff Information top-level areas are not kept during an Exported or Archived.

Release 7.1 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-126758

Course/Organization Copy (Learning System)

When copying a course into a new or existing course, or when copying a content folder or learning unit, the current order of items inside the folders is notpreserved, but reverts to the original order of item creation.

Release 7.1 SP1 2 - High

AS-140271

Course/Organization Copy (Learning System)

After copying a course, some items in the content area of a course may be missing. This can happen when one folder has been copied into another prior to the course copy.

Release 8.0 SP5 2 - High

AS-125531

Course/Organization Copy (Learning System)

No browse button is available next to Dest Course ID when attempting to copy a course into an existing course.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-136091

Course/Organization Copy (Learning System)

In certain scenarios, a user must complete the copy course form and submit it twice before a course will copy.

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-137014

Course/Organization Copy (Learning System)

After copying a course into an existing course, a user receives an error when trying to sort by "Created", "Instructor Username" and "Instructor Name" columns

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-127251

Course/Organization Copy (Learning System) Privileges: General Roles Management

When the privilege to copy into a NEW course is removed from the instructor role, the instructor gets an "access denied" error when clicking on "Course Copy" in the course menu (under "Packages and Utilities"). The "Course Copy" page should load and offer the options to copy into an existing course or do an exact course copy.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-126572

Course/Organization Copy (Learning System) Privileges: General Roles Management

When the privilege to copy a course into a NEW course is removed from the instructor role, instructors are no longer able to copy a course into an EXISTING course.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-108028

Course/Organization Management (Learning System)

Searches for all courses from the System Administration panel never complete.

Release 7.1 SP2 2 - High

AS-131274

Course/Organization Management (Learning System)

The 'Course Description' field replaces carriage returns with the HTML tag <BR>. This in turn is encoded as "<BR>" the next time the form is submitted. This causes the course description to be displayed on only one line.

Release 8.0 SP4 3 - Medium

AS-126067

Course/Organization Management (Learning

Course/Organization Management: When selecting Course Creation options from the Course Settings page, the options link to a Perl file that

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

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System) does not exist.

AS-125901

Course/Organization Management (Learning System)

Instructors enrolled in an unavailable course, are unable to make the course available without the assistance of an Administrator.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-125260

Course/Organization Management (Learning System)

Course/Organization Management: The Organization home page is displaying instead of the Process enrollment request page when a user is logged in as a leader. The workaround is to enroll the student manually.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-134647

Course/Organization Management (Learning System)

The term "Recycle" is displayed on the Control Panel under Packages and Utilities. "Bulk Delete" is the correct term.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-134597

Course/Organization Management (Learning System)

When searching for course from the System Admin tab, a user will receive the error "An error occurred. Contact the system administrator". The information will then display properly after clicking the OK button at the bottom of the page.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-140202

Course/Organization Management (Learning System)

After importing a course, folder names overlap with course content. Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

AS-140201

Course/Organization Management (Learning System)

When a URL contains multiple parameters within the content area, the import improperly includes the Course_Id in the folder name. This is also causing the folder name to overlap other content.

Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-101610

Course/Organization Menu (Learning System)

Course Menu Images are incorrectly associated for Organization Menus.

Release 7.1 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-124421

Course/Organization Menu (Learning System)

The Help item in the course menu launches the user manual which takes over the entire screen. It should launch in a separate window

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-140276

Course/Organization Menu (Learning System)

The option for "SSL Choice" can cause all of the course tools in the control panel to require SSL. For example, if SSL is turned on only for announcements, and the user is currently viewing the announcements tool, the all of the course tools displayed in the control panel will use SSL, despite the setting.

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-140307 Database With portal direct entry enabled, the guest user's last login date is

updated every time the portal front page is accessed. Release 7.3 GA 3 - Medium

AS-125562 Database Queries on User Roles Consumes Heavy DB CPU Usage Release

8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-130225 Database After installation, CREATE_SYSTEM_COURSE and

SYSTEM_COURSE_CR procedures will not compile Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-135682 Database Increased the cache from 20 to 200 for the sessions_seq to improve the

database performance. Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-137859

Database Groups (Learning System)

Users are unable to upload files to the group file exchange and a database error is thrown: 'java.sql.SQLExcetion: OALL8 is an inconsistent state and protocol violation.'

Release 9.0 GA

1 - Showstopper

AS-130715

Database Installation / Uninstallation (Learning System) Snapshot

Administrator and Guest accounts can be deleted via snapshot Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-128569 Database Snapshot In Windows environments, Snapshot creates duplicate entries in

gradebook and course menu for certain courses. Release 7.3 GA 2 - High

AS-136676 Database Snapshot

Windows platform only: Creating Snapshots can cause some courses to have duplications in the Grade Center and Course Information. Removing the duplications only lasts until the next Snapshot. Knowledge Base

Release 8.0 SP5 2 - High

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AS-135329

Database System Performance Updater: Other

The lack of a proper statistics-gathering job for Oracle causes extremely poor performance. The outdated ANALYZE_MY package or rather the ANALYZE TABLE/INDEX method it uses has several weaknesses.

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-134134

Digital Dropbox / File Exchange (Learning System)

The option for the "Digital Drop Box" should be removed from the Course Recycle Utility. This feature has been removed.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-116209 Discussion Board The Performance Dashboard lists the incorrect number of Discussion

Board posts. Release 7.2 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-115388 Discussion Board Course Archives do not retain discussion board attachments. Release

7.3 GA 2 - High

AS-119708 Discussion Board

In selected discussion threads on Unix systems, users may be unable to view the messages in tree view (loading message never disappears). An error from getViewableMessages is logged, caused by posts having multiple attachments.

Release 7.3 GA 3 - Medium

AS-130852 Discussion Board

Opening a file attached to a thread on a discussion board will produce an HTTP 404 error when the file is named a certain way. (The naming pattern has not yet been identified).

Release 7.3 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-122761 Discussion Board

Certain Discussion Board actions cause a long running database query in Oracle 10g, which can lock tables and block other queries from running eventually causing Oracle to become unresponsive.

Release 7.3 GA

1 - Showstopper

AS-116869 Discussion Board Discussion Board Forum names and Thread names are displayed with

very large text. Release 8.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-125798 Discussion Board Disabled users are still visible in the user interface when clicking

'manage' in a forum. Release 8.0 SP3 3 - Medium

AS-122687 Discussion Board In the discussion board, "Open Parent Post" and then "Hide Parent

Post" should read "View Original Post" and "Close Original Post" Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-124114 Discussion Board Replying to a discussion board message gives a 404 HTTP error when

in collect mode. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-124557 Discussion Board In the Discussion Board creation page, the Text Editor button appears at

the top right rather than appearing above the Text Editor entry field. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-133993 Discussion Board

In the Discussion Board, the instructional text for grading, does not explain that the "Grade" that should be clicked to assign a grade is in the context menu next to the user and not the "Grade" to sort the column.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-133921 Discussion Board

During a Course Copy the user cannot properly copy a graded forum if the Grade Center is not also copied. The copied forum cannot be edited or graded in the destination course and a new grade column cannot be re-established.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-133566 Discussion Board A student can make a group discussion board unavailable. Release

9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-132741 Discussion Board In the discussion board, the instructions for grading forums have not

been updated from 8.0 to 9.0. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-132661 Discussion Board

When a forum is copied that has attachments in it on Linux/Solaris systems, the attachments do not get copied and an error message is displayed.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-130605 Discussion Board Check Box to select all discussion board threads do not work in IE6 or

IE7 Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS- Discussion Board In Discussion Board, selecting "Show All" in the pagination, changes Release 3 - Medium

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130218 the paging to one thread per page. 9.0 GA AS-130135 Discussion Board Subscribe button won't show up in a discussion board thread if a student

does not have a valid email id. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-127378 Discussion Board

Privacy: After restoring a course and then removing the students from the course and from the system, the students' names are still appearing as the authors of the messages.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-136221 Discussion Board

In the Discussion Board, the drop-down menu to mark discussion thread as "READ" or "UNREAD" does not work while in the Grade Forum.

Release 9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-140554 Discussion Board

Javascript in Discussion Board used to launch a video player results in error: Error during creating the mashup item. Please contact your system administrator.

Release 9.1 Beta

1 - Showstopper

AS-140553 Discussion Board

The CSS in use in discussion forums was causing embedded images to be invisible in some supported browsers. This has been corrected in all the themes that ship with Blackboard. Customers who are using custom themes built from 9.0 themes may need to apply the same correction by hand to the controls.css file in each custom theme, if they continue to see this issue.

Release 9.1 Beta

1 - Showstopper

AS-142781 Discussion Board Opening an Unread Post in Discussions results in the error: An error

occurred. Contact the System Administrator. Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-118953

Discussion Board Installation/Uninstallation

The dboard_migrate.sql script was created for the discussion board refactoring in AS 7.3. It does a significant amount of data manipulation to handle the changes to the schema. Most of the script properly checks the current state of the database before running so that the same work is not done after the initial 7.3 upgrade. There are several update queries that are not surrounded by these checks and will require full table scans.

Release 7.3 GA 2 - High

AS-124628 eCommerce Core eCommerce Core: The Payment Gateway Settings page accepts a blank

password. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-119085 Email (Learning System) The Email Announcement Feature does not work and no error message

is displayed. Release 7.3 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-132904 Email (Learning System)

Sending emails to very large recipient lists causes high heap utilization. This happens when loading user objects into memory instead of using a simple list of email addresses.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-130130 Email (Learning System) Return receipts is not an option when sending email messages. Release

9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-100357

Enrollment (Learning System)

As a Student in the Community System, after clicking on the Enroll button for an Organization, an error message is received. Attempting again results in a message that states that the action was unsuccessful, and that there is already a pending Enrollment request. The Leader does receive the Enrollment request.

Release 7.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-121840

Enrollment (Learning System)

When the course enrollment options is set to "Instructor / System Administrator", the student enrollment email is being sent from the student and not the administrator.

Release 7.2 GA 3 - Medium

AS-113538 Grade Center

IE 7 ONLY: The radio selection buttons on the Add Weighted Column page in the Grade Center do not function properly when dealing with multiple categories.

Release 8.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-127061 Grade Center The grades for selected columns are not downloading to a spreadsheet. Release

8.0 SP1 2 - High

AS- Grade Center The Grade Center Smart Views do not function with multiple group Release 3 - Medium

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127196 selections. The system lets you create such a view with no error messages but the Smart View does not appear.

8.0 SP3

AS-126323 Grade Center In the grade center names are not alphabetized by last name and then

first name - just by last name. Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-127185 Grade Center

When a course is copied or imported into an existing course the resulting course will have duplicate copies of each grading schema (aka display option).

Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-124435 Grade Center Grade Center: After changing the Calculated Grades for each attempt, a

student's Weighted Total is mismatched. Release 8.0 SP3 3 - Medium

AS-140311 Grade Center When requesting a report for 'selected users' in the Grade Center the

sort order is random. A default sort order should be set. Release 8.0 SP4 3 - Medium

AS-135462 Grade Center When modifying the attempt of an already exempted grade and re-

applying the "Exempt Grade", the attempt is deleted. Release 8.0 SP4 2 - High

AS-129373 Grade Center The Observer Dashboard does not display grades. Release

8.0 SP4 2 - High

AS-134260 Grade Center

The "Last Attempt" for an assessment is calculated based on the pk1 of that attempt. In a RAC environment the highest pk1 is not necessarily the latest attempt causing possible grading anomalies.

Release 8.0 SP4 2 - High

AS-126558 Grade Center

When a weighted column is composed of several assignment columns, it will show a low grade until the submissions are fully graded. The Running Total setting is being ignored for columns with submitted, but ungraded assignments.

Release 8.0 SP4 2 - High

AS-134425 Grade Center

When the user attempts to enter 100% as a value for the grading scheme, an error occurs stating that the value entered must be between the lower and upper value.

Release 8.0 SP4 3 - Medium

AS-135204 Grade Center

The My Grade feature that displays the Student's grades do not show the assignment median and average that is visible within the Instructor Gradebook. These values should be consistent between both gradebook views.

Release 8.0 SP5 3 - Medium

AS-133433 Grade Center When no Grade Center columns are locked, the last column is not

displayed. Release 8.0 SP5 3 - Medium

AS-139165 Grade Center

"Needs Grading" assignment items calculated as "0" rather than NULL in "Weighted Total" column even though "Calculate as running total" is set to "Yes". This issue only occurs if the Grade Center items to be weighted in categories (and not columns).

Release 8.0 SP5 2 - High

AS-123588 Grade Center

Grade Center: Downloading grades with the "Selected Column" option set to "Total" is not working. To work around this issue, download grade using the "Full Grade Center" option.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-123821 Grade Center

Grade Center: While viewing grade details, selecting the "Open Attempt" link when an attempt does not exist results in an HTTP 500 error.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-125279 Grade Center Grade Center: When adding the Grade Column with no due date

selected, an error page displays. Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-124431 Grade Center Grade Center: For a Hidden Gradebook test, the Average value is

mismatched on the Column Statistics page. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-126049 Grade Center

When the user is in a grid cell that has an editable grade in it, they should have one-click access to the grade details page for that user's grade. Instead the user must click to open the context menu and navigate through it and click again to get to the grade details page

Release 9.0 GA

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AS-133995 Grade Center

When organizing columns in the Grade Center the "freeze bar" can move into the "Not in a Grading Period" table. The "freeze bar" should only be visible in the "Shown in All Grade Center Views" table.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-133861 Grade Center Changing the value in the Customize User Profile does not propagate to

the Grade Center. Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-133133 Grade Center Error message when attempting to create or modify categories through

Manage Categories in Grade Center. Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-130680 Grade Center The Icon Legend is truncated when using the Arabic Language pack

and IE 7.0 Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-134035 Grade Center Using an apostrophe in group names causes Smart Views in the Grade

Center to become jumbled and display improperly. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-130026 Grade Center In the grade center, deleting a frozen column forces another previously

unfrozen column to become frozen Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-130357 Grade Center During the creation of a Weighted Column in the Grade Center, the

category view gets distorted in IE6 and IE7. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-128075 Grade Center Downloading grades while using Smart View's will download

everything instead of what the Smart View defined Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-142851 Grade Center

In a weighted column, the score and percentage values do not match if another weighted column is used in the calculation. This only occurs until a page refresh and if the current value of the second weighted column is null.

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-141369 Grade Center

After changing the "Minimum Rows to be Displayed" option in the GradeCenter, there is a chance one or some of the students will no longer be shown in the GradeCenter.

Release 9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-136894 Grade Center

When an instructor changes points total in a grade center column, the percentage is not updated until the instructor exits the course and goes back in.

Release 9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-135616 Grade Center Points possible value disappears from grade forum when we use the

order or sort by option to list the threads Release 9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-139863 Grade Center

The Grade Information Bar's Total column displays "varies by student" on mouse hover instead of displaying total points possible. As total points may vary, this has been updated to now display maximum points possible, in format: "<Max Point> (may vary by student)"

Release 9.0 SP2 3 - Medium

AS-141916 Grade Center

On the Grade Attempts and Grade Questions pages, dashes in grade entry cells appear by default, but no validation is performed to warn user to remove the dash once a grade has been entered. Users should receive warning messaging indicating numeric value required or a dash be entered to clear a grade value.

Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

AS-133563 Grade Center SSL Certain areas of the Grade Center will not load when SSL is enabled. Release

9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-140544

Gradebook (Learning System) Grade Center slowness has been improved by adding database indexes. Release

8.0 SP4 2 - High

AS-132556

Groups (Learning System)

When a student is creating a group, the groups breadcrumb (when clicked) gives an Access Denied error.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-130222

Groups (Learning System)

An error, "NoSuchMethodError", is thrown when a user tries to sort on the Posted By column in the File Exchange for a group. This only occurs if two or more files are present. Also if the user does not click "OK", the error is thrown each time the File Exchange is visited, blocking regular access to the File Exchange.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

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AS-141830

Groups (Learning System)

In group file exchange, the File Size column always shows 0 bytes for any uploaded file.

Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

AS-114988

Homepage (Learning System)

After enrolling and then un-enrolling users through snapshot, some areas of the the user's homepage may improperly disappear.

Release 7.1 SP2 3 - Medium

AS-120809

Homepage (Learning System)

Any apostrophe in a student homepage is escaped after saving the homepage; editing and saving the page again renders the escape visible to all users.

Release 7.3 SP1 4 - Low

AS-130989

Installation / Uninstallation (Learning System)

In a Tomcat cluster, only the root server correctly serves up CSS. There is a workaround

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-124589

Interaction (Learning System / Community System)

Navigation: The popup navigation in the Learning System and Community System Learning Modules is broken.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-133558 Journals Copying a Journal Link to another course using the context menu does

not work. Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-140301 Journals Students receive an error in the Group Journal when filtering by entry

using the "View entries by" option. Release 9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-135458 Language Packs Changing the Local Support contact when using a multi-byte language

pack returns an incorrect success message Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-132036 Language Packs

When a custom locale code fails, the application falls back to the en_US language pack. The fallback language should be configurable. For example, ja_JP_custom should first fallback to ja_JP and then to en_US.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-130569 Language Packs Titles on multi-select options under Email Information in Email Tool

does not match title specified in Language Pack or documentation. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-143286 Learning Modules

After a Learning Modules is created, the user goes to the Learning Styles page and is shown a Login Page. The expected page is the Learning Styles page with the Table of Contents.

Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-142300 Learning Modules After attaching a file to a learning module, the attachment appears

twice. Release 9.1 Beta 4 - Low

AS-134839 Learning Modules Opening Learning Unit in a new window contains menu and

breadcrumbs when in Edit Mode Release 9.1 Beta 4 - Low

AS-113479 License Management

After update of License Key, the customized layout settings are changed, and do not appear under the My Classes tab. As well, content is incorrectly missing from the System Administrator tab.

Release 7.2 SP1 2 - High

AS-129689 License Management

The Blackboard system does not include the Content Collection. The Instructor may still add the Portfolio Home Page as a tool for Students. When Students attempt to use this functionality, it is not working. The Portfolio Home Page tool should only display when Content Collection is enabled system wide.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-130120 License Management Licenses with Expiration Dates result in Invalid License Key Errors

during installation Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-130243 Logs

The Tomcat access logs and catalina logs are deleted following a log rotation on Blackboard Learn 9. The file are not recreated or are empty until the Blackboard Learn services are restarted. As these are files are rotated by Tomcat itself, there is no need to truncate or delete the active log file. Knowledge Base

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-130686 Messages When using the Message Tool the user has the option to allow users to

create personal folders for storing messages. If a folder is created and Release 8.0 SP4 2 - High

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messages moved the Inbox to the folder, the "recipient" information is displayed instead of "sender". The user wants to see who sent them a message when the message is moved to the folder.

AS-124131 Messages Messages: On the Compose Message page, users are able to create a

message with a blank "Subject" field. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-94968

Modules (Community System)

Role names do not change in the Organizations module to match the system. For example, if Manager is changed to Org Leader in the system the role will still appear as Manager in the Organizations module.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-103065

Modules (Community System)

A jpg file with spaces in its name that is added to My Content to be viewed in My Portfolios, or a file that is added to a Module cannot be viewed.

Release 7.1 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-120803

Modules (Community System)

Deletion of a module has been set as the head of a tab will cause an error on the My Institution page.

Release 8.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-131166

Modules (Community System)

Some students' grades do not refresh. Trying to access those grades shows error: The specified opbject was not found. Error ID is 3a1010ab-3bb3-4a72-9589-dff42d185099

Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-132538

Modules (Community System)

When a header module is modified to appear to certain roles only, it ignores this and shows up to all roles.

Release 8.0 SP5 2 - High

AS-131498

Modules (Community System)

After viewing the Report Card of a student an Observer cannot view the Report Card of another student. The content within the Report Card module does not update to display the new student's grades.

Release 8.0 SP5 2 - High

AS-133562

Modules (Community System)

User recieves Error ID e233d3a7-663b-44ce-9b70-f36cf39f7285 when trying to use the popup preview box of the Tabs module.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-131584

Modules (Community System)

The Quick Tutorials modules all link to the same content and have become too large by default. All three modules are not needed by default, especially when they link to the same content.

Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-129634

Modules (Community System)

Instructor Alerts for 'Past Due' items fail to 'Show All' when there are more than 100 alerts to show. The link is shown but when clicked it does not display the 'Past Due' items.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-133851

Modules (Community System)

Module used as header for a tab stays visible even when made unavailable

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-131389

Modules (Community System)

Specific URL parameters with expected enumerated values would allow for HTML injection vulnerabilities. The countermeasure which is targeted for 9.0 SP1 is to validate the parameter value based on the enumerated properties.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-131636

Modules (Community System) Tabs (Community System)

Previously configured Hot Links on the System Admin tab are not displayed after upgrading to 9.0. In addition, it is impossible to edit Hot Links/Hot Spot content because this tab does not have the functionality to edit default content.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-113029

Navigation / Breadcrumb (Learning System)

After an Instructor views a Survey by accessing it through the Student View Course Menu, not the Control Panel, the Instructor is improperly returned to the Control Panel.

Release 7.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-123128

Navigation / Breadcrumb (Learning System)

Contextual menus are expanded by default when Styles are turned off for pages where they appear.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-125769

Navigation / Breadcrumb (Learning System)

Clicking course banner in IE7 produces a '404 - invalid path was requested' error

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-132552

Navigation / Breadcrumb (Learning System)

When students click on the Breadcrumb for an assignment while in the assignment's submission page, they are brought to a page which says

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

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"Folder Empty". AS-125899 Notifications Email notifications to Instructors when a course is activated should not

be sent if the system has disabled notifications. Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-133560 Notifications

If an instructor makes a course unavailable and then makes a change inside of the course, students still receive a daily dashboard notification email that lists the changes. Students should not receive notifications for unavailable courses.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-129742 Notifications Logins through Direct Portal Entry sometimes cause the Notification

Dashboard to fail. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-126594 Notifications The page where the Initiate Email Distribution link resides is not

accessible. Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-136998 Notifications Not all areas of the notification system shut down when the system as a

whole is switched off. Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-136889 Notifications Notification System does not send out blitz enrollment email when a

user is enrolled into an existing course (Unix-specific) Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-140279 Notifications

Courses that contain a colon (Ex - 12345 : Course Name) in their course name are failing to send notification emails within the course. This includes email notifications of content availability.

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-143215 Notifications Notification details are not expanded on when clicking the What's New

category. Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-138555 Other Performance Issue: The Tomcat application server continually uses

larger amounts of memory that are never released. Release 9.0 GA

1 - Showstopper

AS-131676 Other IE7: When clicking on dropdown menus, a white square appears at at

random under the ""create course"" button. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-133679 Other When a Sysadmin attempts to view or edit Personal Portfolios, a

message appears denying access. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-140779 Other In Safari (MAC OS and WINDOWS XP) the grey background color

does not fill the page. Some areas remain white. Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

AS-126997 Outcomes - 360 Views In Outcomes, the 360� view of Improvement projects do not sort the

objectives and their activities correctly. Release 8.0 SP3 3 - Medium

AS-123524 Outcomes - 360 Views Outcomes: Program Managers are able to view links despite those

privileges being disabled. Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-124155 Outcomes - Affiliations

Outcomes: When a user logs in using the Secure Manager role, the "Batch Actions" button does not display on the Educational Experiences Sections Affiliations page.

Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-124866

Outcomes - Affiliations Outcomes - Batch

Outcomes: The Batch Modify Affiliations command is accepting a batch file with null values for the required fields.

Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-133747 Outcomes - Course Evals N/A answers are being counted as 0 rather than null, which may cause

inaccuracies in question averages. Release 8.0 SP4

1 - Showstopper

AS-126986 Outcomes - Deployments

In Outcomes, all of the recipients of the emails for Course Evaluations see the same course section (from the affiliation owner) in the subject line of their email - not the actual course they are in.

Release 7.3 SP1

1 - Showstopper

AS-123744 Outcomes - Deployments

Outcomes: When local file storage is turned off, users can only Browse for Content Collection items. The ability to Browse for Local File will not be available.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-124180 Outcomes - Deployments Outcomes - Deployments: If a user attempts to create a duplicate

Distribution List, the page resulting from clicking the "Browse" button Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

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will contain unnecessary information. Users will still be able to search for and select lists, but they can no longer sort the the results.

AS-126995

Outcomes - Distribution Lists

In Outcomes, if a criteria-based distribution list is edited after deployment, the distribution list is no longer accessible.

Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-124192

Outcomes - Goals and Objectives

Outcomes: When a user searches for Course Objectives with search criteria such as "description" and "Contains, Equal To, Starts With, Not Blank," an error message displays.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-126990 Outcomes - Other

When sending reminder emails to more than 2000 recipients the browser times out after 6 minutes with no confirmation. The task should give immediate feedback/confirmation. Task is now run in the background.

Release 7.3 SP1 2 - High

AS-124864 Outcomes - Programs Outcomes - Programs: An error page is displayed when the Go button is

clicked on the Edit Paging option in the Associated Courses page. Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-126992 Outcomes - Surveys In Outcomes, the ability to include or exclude a recipient's response for

survey reporting does not work Release 8.0 SP3

1 - Showstopper

AS-134036 Outcomes - Surveys

In Outcomes, not all questions are available for selection when choosing "Run Report for Survey Results by Question." This only happens if an earlier version of the report had fewer questions. Then only the questions from the earlier version are given as choices. All questions from the later version of the report should be available for reporting.

Release 8.0 SP4 3 - Medium

AS-124098 Outcomes - Surveys

Outcomes: While creating a survey, an error page displays when a user clicks the "OK" button in the Alert Popup window for a Likert Scale question.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-140289 Outcomes - Surveys In Outcomes, Report Processing will not run, but return an error

message. Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-131622 Peer Assessment

A 404 error appears when a student tries to view the "Model Response" for a Self and Peer Assessment through the Grade Center. The "Model Response" is accessible through the original assessment. Workaround

Release 8.0 SP3 3 - Medium

AS-130674 Peer Assessment

In Self and Peer Assessment, the evaluation can now be previewed properly when "Allow Self Evaluation" is set to No under the Self and Peer Evaluation Options.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-116157

Performance Dashboard (Learning System)

Performance Dashboard: In Firefox 2.0, clicking the "Print" button on the Performance Dashboard does not print the page. You must manually print it using the File > Print menu option in the browser.

Release 7.3 SP1 2 - High

AS-123377

Performance Dashboard (Learning System)

in 9.1 Beta, the Packages and Utilities submenu does not match on the right side of the screen.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-133557

Personal Information Tool

Students opting out of email from other students in their course are also unable to receive email from the instructor.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-136099

Personal Information Tool Tools

Unable to scroll for full view of My Places if user is enrolled in large number of courses/organizations, as a longer course listing causes My Places to extend below the lower edge of the browser.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-132669 Privileges: General

Faculty are able to make changes to Customization > Properties > Classifications & Subject despite it being disabled. They receive an error message when trying to do so, but the changes that they have made stay.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-132316 Privileges: General

When assigning system privileges to a role the ability to "Enroll User" and "Remove User" are controlled by the same check box. These options should be split to allow more granular control.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

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AS-132085 Privileges: General

When a user's role does not have the privilege "Course/Organization Control Panel (Customization)> Properties, Categorize Course/Organization", they are no longer allowed to edit the categorization of the course.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-136490 Privileges: General

The privilege "Administrator Panel (Tools and Utilities) > Announcements" cannot be given to the Course Administrator role. Users with that role encounter an Access Denied error when trying to exercise the privilege.

Release 9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-135059

Privileges: General Tabs (Community System)

Users who have access to the "Tab Groups" page can delete any tab group or create any new group even outside the domain they are assigned to. Community Administrators should only be able to edit tabs in their domain. They should not be able to create or delete any tabs.

Release 9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-100811 Privileges: Guest Access Course Guest and System Guest are not able to access Glossary and

Manual Tool Links Release 7.1 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-118122 Privileges: Guest Access Confusion regarding the Guest Role in the system versus a course

results in Guest Instructors being unable to access their course. Release 7.3 GA 2 - High

AS-125962 Privileges: Guest Access

A course that is set as allow guest access displays in catalogue and search as a link; however if a guest tries to access the course, an error appears: Resource unavailable.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-126905

Reports - Course Evaluation

The number of submissions and completion percentage for all courses are not equal to Zero in Outcomes.

Release 8.0 SP4 2 - High

AS-134113

Reports - Course Evaluation Reports - System Statistics

When running tracking reports on Release 9 with a Basic license, the following error is received: "brand#header#image: This value is required and must be provided to continue. brand#footer#image: This value is required and must be provided to continue."

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-115189

Reports - Course Statistics

Events in the Access/Application of the Content Area are not being tracked properly in Course Statistics.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-140308

Reports - Course Statistics

Tracking Reports have SQL errors meaning that the reports, while generated, likely are not 100% correct.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-134383

Reports - Course Statistics

When selecting users to include in tracking reports, the list of names is either random or sorted by the users' addition date to the course, rather than alphabetically.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-129071 Reports - Framework When users attempt to export a non-scheduled report to the Content

System, they receive an access denied page. Release 8.0 SP4 3 - Medium

AS-122428 Reports - Surveys IE7: An error message ("conversion failed") appears while running

'BIRT Survey Results - Grouped by questions' reports. Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-118233 Reports - Surveys An error message ("conversion failed") appears while running 'BIRT

Survey Results - Grouped by questions' reports. Release 8.0 SP3 3 - Medium

AS-128072 Reports - Surveys

Outcomes - Reports - Surveys: In BIRT Survey Results, multiple choice questions might not display in the Survey Description table. To work around this issue, always specify text for multiple choice questions with an open entry option.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-132663 Roles Management

Contextual menu displays an option to delete an item when the 'Delete Materials' privilege is disabled. If the instructor tries to use that option an Access Denied message is shown.

Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-131819 Roles Management The 'Course Administrator' role is allowed to change disk quotas even

when this privilege has been explicitly disabled. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-140312

SCORM Player (Learning System) Scorm player does not load packages in Firefox. Release

8.0 SP3 2 - High

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AS-140277

SCORM Player (Learning System)

Some SCORM courses are improperly handled by the Grade Center and the attempt is always shown as "in progress." A student can complete a SCORM course and submit her grade but the Grade Center is never updated.

Release 8.0 SP5 2 - High

AS-123927

SCORM Player (Learning System)

SCORM: In the SCORM 2004 player, the Completion check mark is not appearing in the gradebook, and the Attempt Detail on the Edit Grade page is incorrect or missing.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-124886

SCORM Player (Learning System)

SCORM: After submitting a SCORM package, a blank page is Displayed instead of the Content area page.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-135305

SCORM Player (Learning System)

In SCORM 2004 API, passing a getvalue for cmi.learner.name returns"null" when it should return instructor's first name and last name.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-100450

Search (Learning System)

In 7.1, when searching for Posts in the Discussion Board area, the search function is incorrectly case sensitive, and will yield incorrect results.

Release 7.1 GA 3 - Medium

AS-127933 SIS Proxy Courses are not modified correctly after enabling the proxy SIS

parameters on both Blackboard Learn and Vista. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-111150 Snapshot The snapshot client is reporting errors as non-descript java messages

instead of the previous, more specific method. Release 7.2 SP1 2 - High

AS-126207 Snapshot

When using Snapshot over SOAP the Snapshot client does not heed the values specified in the <component>.bb.controlled.fields, thus sometimes incorrectly setting all the values specified in the datafeed rather than excluding the ones specified in this configuration property.

Release 7.3 GA 2 - High

AS-129516 Snapshot

When creating a data source key through Snapshot on a linux or solaris server, the description field has been fixed to allow spaces. This resolves the issue of only the first word of the description being set.

Release 7.3 SP2 3 - Medium

AS-141812 Snapshot Course Snapshot in SOAP mode still disregards bb.controlled.fields and

wrongly copies template courses. Release 8.0 SP4

1 - Showstopper

AS-139695 Snapshot Running a course copy using the snapshot client overwrites the original

course when the course menu has been modified. Release 8.0 SP4 2 - High

AS-134849 Snapshot When attempting to change the DSK for a user(s) with the minimum

required headers the process fails with an error count. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-134848 Snapshot Snapshot DSM tool working using SOAP as the protocol Release

9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-133857 Snapshot Unable to import section backups using Snapshot (LMSImport) if the

file contains Groups. Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-138892 Snapshot

Large enrollment files processed via snapshot can cause performance issues. XML parser has been revise to correctly identify batch jobs. When notification is disabled, additional processing is not executed.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-141911 Snapshot CE 8 import of Snapshot date for content setup using the

LMSImport.cmd is not functioning. Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-140310

Staff Information (Learning System)

'Meet Your Instructor' says "Folder Empty" when there are indeed items.

Release 8.0 SP3 3 - Medium

AS-136652

Staff Information (Learning System)

Restoring a 7.3 course to 9.0.440.7 creates an incorrect breadcrumb for the Contacts Module. The breadcrumb points to a different course.

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-133908

System Configuration / History

After removing clustering from all nodes and turning clustering off in bb-config an error is shown: Internal Server Error. Leaving clustering turned on allows the system to run with the single node in place.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS- System Configuration / Large heaps and back to back garbage collections causing wrapper ping Release 2 - High

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131895 History timeouts and service outages. 9.0 GA AS-129099

System Configuration / History

Tomcat Garbage Collection logging should be enabled by default. Knowledge Base

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-119305 System Performance Slow system performance caused by attempting to list all users in the

system. Release 7.1 SP1 2 - High

AS-108859 System Performance

Sometimes Tomcat improperly creates log files with root ownership. Some Tomcat log files are not being created with Blackboard user ownership. The result is errors in the log files and certain logging information is not recorded.

Release 7.2 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-133673 System Performance Logs can grow by up to 3GB per day due to excessive tomcat logging.

This can cause performance and disc space issues. Release 9.0 GA

1 - Showstopper

AS-130307 System Performance There is no health check page for load balanced environments. Release

9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-126364 System Performance

The location of the Bb Performance Report thread dumps has changed. The new location should be documented and all reporting scripts updated.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-135687 System Performance

Performance Issue: While clicking from page to page users occasionally experience a "Resource Unvailable Error" and, more often than not, a "blackboard.platform.session.ScopeNotSupportedException: TEMPORARY scope is unavailable" error.

Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-137347 System Performance Application installation hangs in a multiple application server

environment using Load Balancer. Release 9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-121573 System Performance Grade Center: Performance issues can result when attempting to view

the Grade Center Page for a course with more than 200 students. Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-126760 System Reporting

DAILY_SYSTEM_TRACKING procedure failures are not caught properly. This causes the system to show no statistics reported on the date of the failure.

Release 7.3 SP1 2 - High

AS-133741

Tabs (Community System)

Link Tabs and Tool Tabs prevent users from navigating to other tabs within a Tab Group.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-129618

Tabs (Community System) Tab Features in Brand Settings not working Release

9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-135058

Tabs (Community System)

When using Domain's, the Domain Administrator is able to modify Tabs that are not in his respected domain. The Domain Administrators rights need to be restricted to only those Tabs within the Domain.

Release 9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-136202

Tabs (Community System)

Tab personalization is always allowed when creating a module tab, even if the checkbox is set to Do Not Allow

Release 9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-132707

Tabs (Community System) Updater: Installation /Uninstallation

When creating a 2-column module tab on Bb8 and then upgrading the system to Bb9, the tab will have 3 columns and will be unmodifiable.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-132779

Taglibs User Management

Large body content buffers cause system outages and heap utilization related performance issues. Knowledge Base

Release 9.0 GA

1 - Showstopper

AS-130034 Tasks Copying a course without settings may cause "My Tasks" module to

return Error ID 39847409-d43f-4f21-b0a6-87c5f5f191f1. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-128105 Themes Users who change the theme for the default brand discover that the

colors do not change. Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-115038 Tools The "Email" tool on Administrator Panel cannot be used. Release

7.3 SP1 3 - Medium

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AS-134462 Tools

When students attempt to view grades from a particular course on a date after the course's set end date, an error occurs. This error also happens when clicking the "Send Email" link after a course has ended.

Release 8.0 SP4 3 - Medium

AS-123510 Tools Tools: When creating an item, if you turn off the Visual Editor, it will

overlap and no longer be aligned with the text box below it. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-124500 Tools

Tools: On a LS-PS-CS license machine, the Blackboard Scholar (Organization Tool), My Scholar Home (Organization Tool), and Scholar Course Home (Organization Tool) Tools are missing.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-135688 Tools The description field for a Portfolio has a 255 character limit. Release

9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-129635 Tools Guest accounts are not able to view the Contacts Tool even if Guests

have explicit permissions to view Contacts. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-134668 Tools Link To Tools Area' doesn't list Building Blocks Release

9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-143305 Tools

After an instructor uploads a picture to the Contacts tool, the image appears correctly to the instructor. Students using Firefox 3.6 and IE 7 can not view it.

Release 9.1 Beta 2 - High

AS-122110 UI Infrastructure Course menu items are not identified as part of a group when using a

Screen Reader. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-133564 UI Infrastructure Some group module pages show a collapsed Course Menu and Control

Panel Menu. Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-142112 UI Infrastructure

Active tabs are not properly indicated for screen readers until user left the active tab. The resolution is to ensure the active tab to be read properly by a screen reader.

Release 9.0 GA

1 - Showstopper

AS-134713 UI Infrastructure Users are unable to perform Not Blank searches in the Course Catalog. Release

9.0 SP1 2 - High

AS-124596 UI Infrastructure Accessibility: The system does not retain a user's High Contrast

Settings on the Login page. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-120354 UI Infrastructure

Accessibility: After a user completes an action (such as creates an item), the initial focus of the page should be on the inline receipt, which informs the user that the action completed successfully. Instead, on many pages, the focus goes to the top of the page.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-141881 UI Infrastructure

Expand/collapse images in Folder view of the Course Menu are not properly associated with the section to be expanded or collapsed. This results in a user utilizing a screen reader not clearly understanding what folders are being expanded or collapsed.

Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

AS-126190

Updater: Installation /Uninstallation

During the upgrade from 8.0 to 9.0 the post installation process fails with error: cannot insert NULL into ("BB_BB60"."MODULE_LAYOUT"."MODULE_PK1"). The upgrade fails and cannot be finished.

Release 9.0 GA

1 - Showstopper

AS-128115

Updater: Installation /Uninstallation

Installation: Upgrade from 8.0.375 to Release 9 fails during the Xythos database update.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-133696 Updater: Other

Running a license update for the application will change the number of allowed attempts for assessments to unlimited for all courses regardless of the settings before the license update.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-127934 User Conversion-Online CE users are being converted incorrectly after successful integration. Release

9.0 GA 2 - High

AS- User Management Assigning the Observer role as both the Primary Institution and System Release 3 - Medium

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119709 Roles, or assigning Observer as System Role if the Institution Role is Observer, results in an error.

7.2 GA

AS-126764 User Management The Last name "Null" is not recognized by the system. Release

8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-140273 User Management Editing a user without having the Edit System Role privilege causes the

system roles to disappear Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High

AS-136045 Web Services Web Services log level is always hard coded to DEBUG. System

administrators should be able to select the verbosity. Release 9.0 SP1 3 - Medium

AS-107937 WebEQ

Calculations that involve numbers over 999 and use the comma as the decimal identifier may return incorrect answers when the equation editor is used to create a calculated question type.

Release 7.2 GA 2 - High

AS-119643 What's New

The 'What's New' box lists newly added content items properly but clicking on any item just returns a "Folder empty" message instead of displaying the content item.

Release 7.3 SP1 2 - High

AS-128076 What's New

After upgrading from Bb 8.0 there may be two 'What's New' modules in the System Admin Panel. This does not necessarily apply to installations that have customized the 'What's New' module.

Release 9.0 GA 2 - High

AS-107483 WYSIWYG

After adding an image into any document, such as a Content Item, it is rendered correctly in the editor window. After saving, however, an > or &gt will appear to the right of the image if no alternate text is specified.

Release 7.1 GA 3 - Medium

AS-107044 WYSIWYG

After an upgrade to 7.2, there are formatting issues with Course Content from a restored course. When attempting to Modify within the VTBE, the formatting will sometimes change color or add spaces or text disappears among other things.

Release 7.2 GA 2 - High

AS-126762 WYSIWYG

In Internet Explorer 7 using the Visual Text Box Editor with key combination of <Alt gr>+<1,2,3,4,5 or 6>, or ALT + @ in the Spanish language pack, is not rendered correctly. The format of the text will change from Normal to Headers.

Release 7.3 GA 3 - Medium

AS-128102 WYSIWYG

The Visual Text Box Editor does not correctly indent numbered lists when applied retroactively (using the Numbering and Indent buttons). The HTML Validator JTidy has been updated to correct this issue.

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-131620 WYSIWYG

Firefox: When using the VTBE, the "clear formatting" button successfully clears the formatting, but does not change the "Text Style" dropdown box back to "Normal".

Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-131541 WYSIWYG The Visual Text Box Editor adds an extra ">" symbol when inserting an

image into a Quiz header. Release 9.0 GA 3 - Medium

AS-124607 WYSIWYG Check Spelling and Preview icons on basic editor are horizontally

stretched Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low

AS-141784 WYSIWYG After uploading a file in the VTBE, the link to the file does not

continue anymore when text is typed after the file name. Release 9.1 Beta 3 - Medium

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