System Announcements

• Start of Spring Term (Tuesday, January 11, 2022)
  
  • Start of Term Tips for Instructors
  • Start of Term Tips for Students
• E-Reserves Error (Post-Upgrade 3900) (Thursday, December 30, 2021)
  

  Post-upgrade to Blackboard Learn 3900, we learned that the older E-Reserves Building Block integration no longer worked. If your course uses the older integration, you now see an error “Unable to compile class for JSP”.

  Workaround for Instructors:

  There is a newer “E-Reserves LTI” integration that replaces the legacy integration. See ARES E-Reserves LTI.

  Workaround for Students:

  Access E-Reserves from the library: https://www.library.jhu.edu/library-services/course-readings/ereserves-course-readings/

• Canvas to replace Blackboard as university's primary learning and teaching technology (Monday, September 20, 2021)
  

  Eight Johns Hopkins divisions will migrate to a new learning management system beginning with the 2022-23 academic year.

  https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/09/20/canvas-learning-management-system-transition/

• Phishing emails appearing to come from Blackboard (Tuesday, June 23, 2015)
  

  Phishing scams use fraudulent emails to get users to reveal confidential information. Such emails usually look like they come from a legitimate organization such as Blackboard but contain links to illegitimate sites.

  Blackboard has become aware of a mass phishing scam targeting customers using Blackboard Learn. To be clear, Blackboard Learn has not been hacked -- these are emails sent directly from a spammer to emails it may have harvested by spidering the institution's websites for email addresses.

  For more information see:  https://uis.jhu.edu/blackboard/blackboard-known-issues/phishing-emails-appearing-to-come-from-blackboard/