Blackboard Support

UU Internet Explorer 11 upgrade

Starting Friday the 6th of March until Monday the 9th of March the workstations at the Utrecht University will be upgraded to Internet Explorer version 11.
During this upgrade period you might experience some inconvenience when directly opening document from Blackboard, when opening a document the following window will appear:

IE11_loginscherm

To utilize documents in Blackboard during this period the following workarounds are available:

  • The Authentication window can be ignored by pressing ‘annuleren’.
  • Save files first, before opening.
  • Temporarily use another browser.

After the upgrade period to Internet Explorer 11 the problem will be resolved, starting Tuesday the 10th of March you will not encounter this problem anymore.
Our apologies for the inconvenience.