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Summer 2025 Term - Ends
August 17, 2025 marks the last day of the Summer 2025 semester.
Final Grades are due by August 24, 2025.
Bb Annotate Document Engine Update
The Bb Annotate document engine will be updated on August 4, 2025, starting at 1:30 AM CDT. No downtime expected.
Bb Annotate Database Update
The Bb Annotate database will be updated to Postgres 16 on July 31, 2025, starting at 1:30 AM CDT, during which 1h of downtime can be expected.
Bb Annotate Infrastructure Update
The infrastructure for Bb Annotate will be updated to improve performance on July 30, 2025, starting at 1:30 AM CDT, during which 1h of downtime can be expected.
End of Life - VoiceThread
We regret to inform you that the Center for Teaching and Learning will no longer support VoiceThread after the Spring 2025 semester. We encourage users to transition their VoiceThread work by/before June 2025, as VoiceThread will no longer be available starting Summer 2025.
Panopto is a secure media streaming server, similar to YouTube, that is integrated with Blackboard. Panopto is an all-in-one platform for lecture capture, video recording, editing, and management. It also contains analytic tools to assist with managing student engagement. Panopto is more secure than YouTube, and allows for a more controlled and ad-free viewing experience for our campus community. Videos within Panopto can be set not only to publicly-viewable, but can also be viewable only by specific GSU faculty/staff users or by students only within Blackboard shells. Other features within Panopto allow for quiz creation that can integrate within the Blackboard gradebook, interactive components such as links and embedded YouTube videos within the Panopto player, and students can now submit video and audio to discussions and other assignment prompts within Blackboard.
Please see email communications and the Blackboard Institution page for further details
Summer 2025 Term - Begins
Today marks the first day of the summer semester. Students will not be able to access summer 2025 courses in their Blackboard Course List until May 19, 2025. Please note, late start courses will be available in Blackboard on the date the late start course begins.