{"id":9744,"date":"2025-10-08T14:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/?p=9744"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:06:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:06:34","slug":"collaborative-documents-in-blackboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/2025\/10\/08\/collaborative-documents-in-blackboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative Documents in Blackboard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1925\" height=\"496\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/files\/2025\/06\/Policies-and-Information-Banner.png\" alt=\"Policies and Information\" class=\"wp-image-9441\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is currently an intermittent issue with collaborative documents in Blackboard which is preventing the documents being linked to a class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you receive the error warning:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"464\" height=\"239\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/files\/2025\/10\/Course-initilization-failed.png\" alt=\"image of Course initialization failed message\" class=\"wp-image-9745\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Follow this workaround:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Create a document in your OneDrive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on the Share button in the top right hand corner:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"426\" height=\"121\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/files\/2025\/10\/Share.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of a collaborative document with the Share button highlighted\" class=\"wp-image-9746\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click on the settings cog and choose People in Aberystwyth University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Change More Settings to Can Edit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click Apply<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose Copy Link<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paste the link into Blackboard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We apologise for the inconvenience caused. We\u2019re working with Blackboard and Microsoft to resolve this issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is currently an intermittent issue with collaborative documents in Blackboard which is preventing the documents being linked to a class. If you receive the error warning: Follow this workaround: We apologise for the inconvenience caused. We\u2019re working with Blackboard and Microsoft to resolve this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[94,183,1179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackboard","category-technical-updates","category-ultra-en"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XLJV-2xa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9751,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744\/revisions\/9751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}