Cyrillic in Blackboard class management?

[Keith Langston]

I'm not sure about Blackboard, but I suspect that it's like WebCT, which
is what we use here at the University of Georgia. In WebCT you can use
Cyrillic materials as long as you upload individual pages that you
create outside of WebCT using any html editor -- this might work with
Blackboard as well. However, Cyrillic will not work in any of the WebCT
tools, like the content modules, quizzes, discussion/bulletin board,
etc. so you can't take advantage of all the features.

If you have any input on the choice of course management software at
your campus, you might be interested to know that there's a new version
of WebCT in development, called WebCT Vista, which is supposed to have
full Cyrillic capabilities.

I've played with Vista a little on a test account and this seems to be
true. I was able to create a quiz with questions entirely in Russian or
in a mixture of Russian and English, and I uploaded pages in both KOI-8
and UTF-8 encodings and everything worked just fine.

Keith

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Keith Langston
University of Georgia
Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages
201 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Athens, GA 30602
phone: (706) 542-2448
fax: (706) 583-0349
http://www.uga.edu/~gslangs

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