Important notice for Microsoft Vista users
Text box editors are used to create and reply to discussion board postings, among other things. The visual text box editor enhances the text box by adding formatting features that are similar to Microsoft Word. Users can also upload content directly to the editor.
It appears that the problem only occurs for users that use Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7 simultaneously when trying to access the visual text box editor.
Visual Text Box Editor
In an effort to resolve the issue, the visual text box editor has been disabled in Blackboard and the standard text box editor has been restored.
Standard Text Box Editor
If you are still unable to access the text box editor, please visit www.mozilla.org and download the free FireFox 2.0 browser (the FireFox 2.0 browser seems to work fine with Blackboard).
Please e-mail Robert Shields at rshields@calbaptist.edu for more information. You may also visit the links below for more information:
http://www.blackboard.niu.edu/blackboard/resources/vista.shtml
April 19th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! For awhile there, I thought I was going crazy. I explained the problem to my classmates, and not one of them had the same problem. I eventually figured that it must have something to do with Vista when I found that I was able to send it from a computer that was running XP.