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In the spirit of Chris Boon's fantastic thread on the old Blackboard community site, I would like to share with you how our Blackboard looks now that we have spent half a year on the responsive theme. The login page You can see this for yourself at https://blackboard.soton.ac.uk  if you would like the login.jsp file to experiment with, let me know. Login page at full size

Originally posted on Nov 8, 2018. This is a follow up to last years post  Highlights of fixes from our upgrade implementation plan  where I've tried to summarise all the little fixes that we have had to implement due to issues with the Blackboard application, and which the installer has a nasty habit of removing each time it is used to perform an upgrade. This is purely for information purposes and Blackboard support should be consulted before making changes to your installation. Apologies for the occasional formatting issues. Fixes in bb-config.properties Files affected: /usr/local/blackboard/config/bb-config.properties /usr/local/blackboard/config/bb-config.properties.template DEV/PREPROD/LIVE Java Log Spam fix Files affected: /usr/local/blackboard/config/bb-config.properties To prevent log spam in the stdout-stderr log perform the following: #on each node mkdir -p /home/bbuser/.java/.userPrefs mkdir /home/bbuser/.java/.systemPrefs chown -R bbuser:...