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Can I view the help in my language?
Most of the content on the help site is available in 15 languages other than its source language, English (en-us). If your browser is set to a language that the site supports, you will see the site elements in your language and some of the help content in your language.
To change the language, select a language from the top of the page.
Content available in multiple languages
- Ally
- Blackboard app
- Blackboard Instructor
- Collaborate: Ultra Experience
- Learn
- SafeAssign
- About Help
- Accessibility
- Client Resources
- Product Security
Available languages
Student and instructor content, as well as non-product content, may be available in the following languages depending on which markets the products are sold in.
- Arabic (ar-sa)
- Catalan (ca-es)
- Chinese, Simplified (zh-hans)
- Dutch (nl-nl)
- English (en-us)
- Finnish (fi-fi)
- French (fr-fr)
- German (de-de)
- Hebrew (he)
- Japanese (ja-jp)
- Italian (it-it)
- Korean (ko-kr)
- Norwegian Bokmål (nb-no)
- Portuguese for Brazil (pt-br)
- Russian (ru-ru)
- Spanish (es-es)
- Swedish (sv-se)
- Turkish (tr-tr)
- Welsh (cy-gb)
Administrator content is available only in the following languages.
- Arabic (ar-sa)
- Dutch (nl-nl)
- English (en-us)
- French (fr-fr)
- Japanese (ja-jp)
- Portuguese for Brazil (pt-br)
- Russian (ru-ru)
- Spanish (es-es)
Exceptions
The following content is available in English (en-us) and Spanish (es-es) only.
- Release Notes for Collaborate: Ultra Experience
- Release Notes for Learn self- and managed-hosting deployments
- Release Notes for Learn SaaS deployments
Some of the Blackboard Learn administrator content for self- and managed-hosting deployments is available in English (en-us) only.
- Architecture
- Authentication
- Backup and recovery
- Command Line Tools
- Databases
- Get Started with Server Administration
- Install or upgrade
- Logs
- Outcomes Assessment
- Performance optimization
- Security
- System integration
- Reports
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Yes. You can do any or all of the following:
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- "Mirror" the site using a spider tool such as HTTrack (available only in English and French) or SiteSucker (available only in English). You then can edit the content and host the files yourself.
- Create Word® documents of the help pages using browser extensions such as Save Webpage As Word Doc extension for ChromeTM.
Administrators: To learn more about linking to your content instead of this site in self- and -managed-hosting Blackboard Learn deployments, see Customize the Help Experience.
How do I provide feedback about the Help site?
Anthology doesn't have access to your institution’s Blackboard Learn website, so we can't help you with class- or site-specific issues. You must contact your instructor or your institution’s IT support desk. If you don’t know how to contact the support desk, please search the web for your institution’s name + helpdesk or IT support.
To provide feedback for a particular page, copy the page's URL (the link to the page) and submit it with your comments on our Contact Us page. This information goes directly to the teams that manage the help site and its content.
If you find a broken link to the Help on your institution's Blackboard Learn website, you can submit where you found the broken link (including a screenshot if possible) with your comments on our Contact Us page. Anthology can't fix broken links on your institution's website.
How do I update my links to the previous Help site?
Anthology upgraded this help site (help.blackboard.com) to a new Drupal-based content management system on April 5, 2017.
From a practical perspective, the user experience didn't change. The front-end design is nearly identical to the old help site, and users who arrive from a link inside their product UI should still get to the right location. On the back end, the new infrastructure helps predict and remember a user’s product choices, which delivers more useful content to users.
Some “old” Learn help links do NOT work as expected on the new site. Instead of pointing to a specific page, they now point to the correct audience landing page in the newest branch of Learn.
The new Learn help is “version agnostic,” meaning we’ve rewritten the content to include help for both Ultra and Original experiences and course views. Everything you and your users need for any version of Learn is in this location. This is the only Learn help on the new site. Older Learn 9.1 Help documentation is no longer available.
To update links, you need to update and "old" links to use the newest branch of Learn Help.
Example of an “older” URL that redirects to the main Learn landing page at help.blackboard.com/Learn:
- https://en-us.help.blackboard.com/Learn/9.1_Older_Versions/9.1_2014_and_2015
Example of an “older” URL that redirects to the Learn Student landing page at help.blackboard.com/Learn/Student:
- https://en-us.help.blackboard.com//Learn/9.1_Older_Versions/9.1_SP_14/Student/015_Browser_Support
You must update these links to use the URL for the correct page in help.blackboard.com/Learn.
How do I find the new Learn help links?
We have compiled a list of updated URLs for the 30 most visited Learn and Collaborate help topics for instructors and students. This can help you update your links if you haven't done so.
Questions?
Submit your questions on our Contact Us page.
