Blackboard Scheduled Maintenance (6-14) - Completed

We have completed this maintenance and Blackboard is up and running. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Blackboard Scheduled Maintenance (6-12)

We will be performing maintenance on Blackboard between 7:30 - 8 AM Wednesaday June 12th. Some users may experience an issue logging in or using Blackboard during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Blackboard FAQ: What is a child course?

What is a child course?

Instructors who teach multiple sections of the same course may prefer to manage those sections through a single master course with associated child courses.

In your list of courses, you may see something like this:

Notice that there are two sections of the same course, but one is indicated as a child course. Note: you may have multiple child courses depending on the number of sections you want to merge into one master course.

New content must be managed from the master course. Child courses are marked as unavailable, but can be managed through the master course. If you click on a child course, you will see a warning such as this: 

Just click on the link "master course" and manage your content in the master course.

Upon being merged, all enrollments in the child course are replicated in the master course, and any future enrollment changes in the child course are also synchronized automatically with the master course.

What do students see? 

If the course is set to unavailable, then they will not see the course listed in "My Courses." Once the master course is set to available, they will only see one course; the course they are enrolled in. This course will contain all the content that is in the master course. So, students enrolled in different sections will have access to the the same content.

How can I hide child courses or any old course I do not want in my list of courses?

If you want to "clean up" your list of courses so only the courses you need access to are displayed, watch this short video on how this is done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEMaMHAWb7M

Note: Hiding a course does not delete the course or any of the content within the course.

Camtasia Relay Upgrade

This new recorder has been pushed out to all campus workstations which previously had CR. If you suspect you did not successfully receive this upgrade, please contact your normal technical support staff for assistance or you can download and install the new recorder at https://idu-relay.kumc.edu/relay. This is a slightly different url than before the upgrade. Login with your usual KUMC username and password.

If you need to install the new version, please check the ‘Options’ button on the opening screen and be sure that the ‘Install Powerpoint add-in’ box is NOT checked.

If you're not sure who to call or what to do, contact TLT (tlt@kumc.edu or 913-588-7107), and we'll help you figure it out. 

Scheduled Blackboard Maintenance (5/31)

Due to emergency maintenance Blackboard may be down for a few minutes while we work out the issue. We apologize for any inconvenience.

RTF Files and Blackboard

When opening an RTF file in Blackboard using Internet Explorer you will be prompted to login again 2 possibly even 3 times. This has been made an official bug by Blackboard and they will release a fix for it some time later. If you run into this issue the workaround is to click "Cancel" when you are prompted and it will then open the file. You can also use another browser (FireFox, Chrome, Safari) to download these types of files without an issue. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Unscheduled Blackboard Outage (5/30) - Resolved

Users trying to log into Blackboard might have experienced an issue logging in between 6:45 - 8:12 AM Thursday May 30th. This issue has been resolved and Blackboard is functioning normally. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.