About the group

Welcome to the Blackboard Original Office Hours

This Office Hours replaces what was the Original Experience User Group. Join us on the first Thursday of each month to learn about upcoming features and releases. This is a great opportunity to ask questions to the Product Management team, and learn what your peers are doing in their institutions. 

First Thursday of every month, 12-1pm ET
Register here - https://learn.anthology.com/blackboard-learn-original-office-hours


Office Hour Recordings

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Jeffrey Ries
March 2, 2023 Scheduled Blackboard Learn Original ...
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The KBUG Spring Symposium 2023 is Thursday, March 2, 2023 from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., the start of which is the same time as the scheduled Blackboard Learn Original Office Hours. Just wondering if this month's meeting should be postponed a ...
Jeffrey Ries Category Blackboard Original Experience User Group Feb '23
Jeffrey Ries
Buttons that don't look like buttons!
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When will Blackboard fix the action buttons to actually look like buttons!?! Besides the obvious accessibility issue, users do not even know it's a button! So they don't know to click it or even look for it. This issue appears to be ...
Jeffrey Ries Category Blackboard Original Experience User Group Jun '21
Rachel Shuttlesworth Thompson Rachel Shuttlesworth Thompson Mar '22

+1 to fixing buttons that do not look like buttons! We use Eesysoft (now Instructure Impact) to help users find ...

Jeffrey Ries Jeffrey Ries Mar '22

@Wade Weichel  - This is what I mentioned in last week's “Blackboard Original Experience Users Group”. 

Wade Weichel
Instructions for granting some users access to reset ...
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Hi everyone. A follow-up item from the November 2022 meeting was related to limiting the password reset interface from users who are using an identity provider integrated through SAML or similar method. We had a discussion about the ...
Wade Weichel Category Blackboard Original Experience User Group Dec '22
Jenny Thistlehwaite
Request for feedback - Blackboard Design Review
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We are conducting a Blackboard Design Review and are interested in getting feedback from other Universities who have run similar projects.  Would anyone be interested in giving us input?  Jenny  University of Bristol
Jenny Thistlehwaite Category Blackboard Original Experience User Group May '22
Terry Patterson
Items for Discussion during our second series of ...
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We start our first meeting with Blackboard on Thursday, June 3rd at 12pm ET. Please post what issues you would like to have Blackboard address in the Original Experience. Terry Patterson
Terry Patterson Category Blackboard Original Experience User Group May '21
Katrina Adams Katrina Adams Jun '21
Will you be posting the recording of the June 3 meeting? I missed the first half of the meeting and would like to see ...
Terry Patterson
Bugs and Issues for the Original Experience
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Terry Patterson Category Blackboard Original Experience User Group Feb '20
Matthew Deeprose Matthew Deeprose Mar '20
Thanks for starting this thread Terry.  I'm going to kick off with some 2016 theme related bugs that really bug me, ...
Matthew Deeprose Matthew Deeprose Mar '20
Bb ticket:  #04131769
BB KI number:  000049866
Summary : When multiple choice questions are viewed in the 2016 ...
Terry Patterson
This month's topic: What Do you like about the Original ...
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Greetings, This month we want to discuss what features in Original do you really like that Ultra doesn't seem to have?  What tools, features, or workflows would do your faculty like? Terry
Terry Patterson Category Blackboard Original Experience User Group May '20
Matthew Fillo Matthew Fillo May '20
Observer role support for Ultra courses would be nice.
 
Corrie Bergeron Corrie Bergeron May '20
It's familiar, first and foremost.  That really can't be overstated. Even if an instructor is new to the system, ...
Carolynn Ponce
Running Issues and Bug list
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Good Morning Original User Group Members, We are collecting a list of issues and bugs to be presented at the March 25 User Group meeting. Use the links before to see the current running list and to add to the list. We appreciate your help ...
Carolynn Ponce Category Blackboard Original Experience User Group Mar '20

Group Admins

Alison Stone
Alison Stone
Group Admin
Emma Thompson-Chesters
Emma Thompson-Chesters
Owner
Wade Weichel
Wade Weichel
Group Admin

Events

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Office Hours: Blackboard (Original) 3057
Mar
06
Office Hours: Blackboard (Original)
Date & Time
03/06/2025 12:00pm EST
Office Hours: Blackboard (Original) 3058
Apr
03
Office Hours: Blackboard (Original)
Date & Time
04/03/2025 12:00pm EDT
Office Hours: Blackboard (Original) 3059
May
01
Office Hours: Blackboard (Original)
Date & Time
05/01/2025 12:00pm EDT
Office Hours: Blackboard (Original) 3060
Jun
05
Office Hours: Blackboard (Original)
Date & Time
06/05/2025 12:00pm EDT