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Administration (Learning System) Administration (Learning System) Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low Release 9.0 GA 4 - Low Release 8.0 SP3 2 - High Release 7.2 SP1 2 - High 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 Adaptive Release of Content (Learning System) Adaptive Release of Content (Learning System) AS- 111098 AS- 124113 AS- 126554 AS- 125154 AS- 131611 AS- 130221 AS- 118945 AS- 135226
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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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1 - Showstopper
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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 > 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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