Cyrillic in Blackboard class management?

[Marissa Polsky]

I read your post on SEELANGS. I spoke to someone once at a conference who was sort of "strong-armed" into using Blackboard for her Russian culture class. The class was in English, but it was pretty much populated with Russian majors, and she said that she had wanted to develop Russian language materials, but found problems with compatibility in Blackboard. I think the biggest "work-around" she found was posting in the form  of a power point presentation or word document that the students could download. Another thing, I remember, is that she said that while most of the functions were not Cyrillic compatible, for some reason the message board was, and so she would use the message board a lot for things that required Cyrillic. I can't remember her name off the top of my head, but if I can find my program from the conference, I'll see if I can find her e-mail address. 

I couldn't find any of the film footage you were looking for, btw. I'll keep my eyes open for it, though.

Marissa


>>> rrobin at GWU.EDU 01/13/03 11:56AM >>>
Dear Seelangovtsy,

Does anyone have any experience with displaying Cyrillic is Blackboard's
course management software? The George Washington University is about to
switch from Prometheus to Blackboard. I was asked to test out the Cyrillic
capabilities of the system on a pre-release version here. The upshot: almost
no Cyrillic functionality, at least in our pre-release incarnation. But the
Blackboard people have said that plenty of schools have tweaked Blackboard
to be Cyrillic compatible. I would be interested in learning which schools
deliver material in Cyrillic through Blackboard so that our IT people can
contact their IT people to see what the settings are.

Thanks in advance.

Rich
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Richard M. Robin
German and Slavic Department
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
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