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Vista Failing "Blackboard" College Courses

Posted by Zonk on from the stay-awake-in-the-back-there dept.

writertype writes "Although Blackboard is used to communicate between students and professors at virtually all of PC Magazine/Princeton Review's top 20 wired colleges, when run under a Vista environment users can see glitches. Moreover, IT departments told PC Mag that if Blackboard is used with Vista plus IE7, students can't communicate via the software. When asked why, Microsoft ... waffled. Blackboard says they'll have a fix in place by summer. Meanwhile, are there any other common college apps that Vista fails to work with?"

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  1. It was really late for me.. by Adambomb · · Score: 1, Funny

    Many academic IT departments are suggesting that students and teachers either use an alternative browser such as FireFox or Opera, or disable the feature altogether. but I'm somehow not shedding many tears over this issue.
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  2. It's a feature. by Jacques+Chester · · Score: 5, Funny

    Blackboard is awful, terrible software. Microsoft have simply filtered it out as part of their quality assurance program.

    MySpace is next.

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  3. The icing on the cake... by zumbojo · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...is that a few months ago in anticipation for the new version of Windows, Blackboard named a new piece of software in its honor: "WebCT Vista." Fast forward a few months, and I get the funniest e-mail from the dept. that handles Blackboard:

    "WebCT Vista is not supported on the Windows Vista platform."

    *facepalm*

  4. Ahh.. those students... by DigitAl56K · · Score: 4, Funny

    Meanwhile, are there any other common college apps that Vista fails to work with?

    Yes, there are some problems with uTorrent ;)

  5. Re:What's Microsoft got to do with it? by stebbo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Uhh... Microsoft?? ;-)

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  6. Blackboard doesn't work on Vista? by jez9999 · · Score: 2, Funny

    How is this different from Blackboard on any other OS?

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