Hi Graeme,
One limit is within the SafeHTML filter policy, which depending on your setup may only affect students.
Look for the directive 'maxInputSize' - we have ours set to 1M characters.
Note that in earlier versions of Q2 2017 (as well as some CUs of Q2 and Q4 2016), this limit wasn't respected and was set lower (200k chars if I recall correctly) - see here:
https://blackboard.secure.force.com/btbb_articleview?id=kA339000000Cf8e
Best wishes,
Dan
Dan Levin | Applications Analyst | IT - Student Systems | University of Manchester
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 09:29:34 +0000
From: Graeme Redshaw-Boxwell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Word Limit on Wiki Tool in Blackboard
Hello,
While visiting one of our academic units yesterday, I was asked about the word limit on the Blackboard Wiki tool. The academic said that it had restricted what they were looking to do with the tool. I wasn't aware that there was a word/character limit on wiki pages. I've found in their help pages that there is a 2000 character limit on comments, but have not found anything for the Wiki Pages.
Can anyone confirm if there is a limit, and if so what it is?
Best wishes,
Graeme
Graeme Redshaw-Boxwell
Learning Enhancement and Technology Team Manager Learning and Teaching Development Service Marjorie Robinson Library Rooms, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 8HW
Tel: +44 (0)191 208 3903
Learning and Teaching Conference: Education for Life: celebrating partnership, encouraging innovation Wednesday 21 March 2018 Registration open at http://bit.ly/ncllt18
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 10:00:15 +0000
From: Yanna Nedelcheva <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Word Limit on Wiki Tool in Blackboard
Hello Graeme,
There is a limit on the number of characters a student can submit through the GUI regardless of the tool used, it could be a wiki, blog, journal, etc.
This was previously set to 100 000 characters. However, the new policy from the end of 2016 (if memory serves) allows 200 000 characters.
Just make sure you are on the new Policy.
Best wishes,
Yanna
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Yanna Nedelcheva, MPhil
Senior Education Technology Specialist
University of Westminster
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Phone: 0207 911 5000 ext 66012
From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Graeme Redshaw-Boxwell <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 09:29
To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Word Limit on Wiki Tool in Blackboard
Hello,
While visiting one of our academic units yesterday, I was asked about the word limit on the Blackboard Wiki tool. The academic said that it had restricted what they were looking to do with the tool. I wasn’t aware that there was a word/character limit on wiki pages. I’ve found in their help pages that there is a 2000 character limit on comments, but have not found anything for the Wiki Pages.
Can anyone confirm if there is a limit, and if so what it is?
Best wishes,
Graeme
Graeme Redshaw-Boxwell
Learning Enhancement and Technology Team Manager Learning and Teaching Development Service Marjorie Robinson Library Rooms, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 8HW
Tel: +44 (0)191 208 3903
Learning and Teaching Conference: Education for Life: celebrating partnership, encouraging innovation Wednesday 21 March 2018 Registration open at http://bit.ly/ncllt18
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 10:17:17 +0000
From: Stuart Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Word Limit on Wiki Tool in Blackboard
Hi Graeme,
We got stung by this problem too. Yanna is correct that the character limit that can be submitted through the HTML editor is capped across several tools (wiki, blog, journal, etc). You can set this value yourself by changing the "Safe HTML Policy". We increased our limit to 1000KB of data (1 million characters). Note this includes all the underlying HTML characters too. However, following our upgrade to Bb 2017 Q2, we found a bug that was specifically affecting the Wiki tool where the Safe HTML Policy value was ignored and the character limit was fixed at 200,000. The error message you see is along the lines of:
"Must not contain more than 200000 characters: Content.
Reduce the size of the input by XXXX characters."
This bug is addressed in Cumulative Update 3 for Blackboard Learn, 9.1 Q2 2017:
https://blackboard.secure.force.com/apex/btbb_articleview?homepage=true&id=kA039000000HEVzCAO
See item:
Changing Wiki Character Limit Through the MaxInputSize in Safe HTML Policy does not work - Article # 43292 https://blackboard.secure.force.com/btbb_articleview?id=kA339000000Cf8e
Therefore upgrade to CU3 to get rid of the problem you are experiencing.
Best wishes,
Stuart
Stuart Anderson | Assistant eLearning Manager, Faculty of Science and Engineering | University of Manchester | Room C55 Sackville Building, Sackville Street, Manchester, M13 9PL | tel: +44 (0) 161 30 64168 | www.elearning.eps.manchester.ac.uk<http://www.elearning.eps.manchester.ac.uk/>
Want to brush up your skills in using Blackboard?... View our current training opportunities for FSE teaching and support staff - https://goo.gl/iZN3w5
From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Yanna Nedelcheva
Sent: 01 February 2018 10:00
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Word Limit on Wiki Tool in Blackboard
Hello Graeme,
There is a limit on the number of characters a student can submit through the GUI regardless of the tool used, it could be a wiki, blog, journal, etc.
This was previously set to 100 000 characters. However, the new policy from the end of 2016 (if memory serves) allows 200 000 characters.
Just make sure you are on the new Policy.
Best wishes,
Yanna
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Yanna Nedelcheva, MPhil
Senior Education Technology Specialist
University of Westminster
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Phone: 0207 911 5000 ext 66012
From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> on behalf of Graeme Redshaw-Boxwell <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Date: Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 09:29
To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Word Limit on Wiki Tool in Blackboard
Hello,
While visiting one of our academic units yesterday, I was asked about the word limit on the Blackboard Wiki tool. The academic said that it had restricted what they were looking to do with the tool. I wasn’t aware that there was a word/character limit on wiki pages. I’ve found in their help pages that there is a 2000 character limit on comments, but have not found anything for the Wiki Pages.
Can anyone confirm if there is a limit, and if so what it is?
Best wishes,
Graeme
Graeme Redshaw-Boxwell
Learning Enhancement and Technology Team Manager Learning and Teaching Development Service Marjorie Robinson Library Rooms, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 8HW
Tel: +44 (0)191 208 3903
Learning and Teaching Conference: Education for Life: celebrating partnership, encouraging innovation Wednesday 21 March 2018 Registration open at http://bit.ly/ncllt18
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The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW.
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 10:39:02 +0000
From: Graeme Redshaw-Boxwell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Word Limit on Wiki Tool in Blackboard
Hello,
Thanks for your responses. I’ve passed this on to our IT team to investigate, and hopefully increase the limit.
Best wishes,
Graeme
Graeme Redshaw-Boxwell
Learning Enhancement and Technology Team Manager Learning and Teaching Development Service Marjorie Robinson Library Rooms, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 8HW
Tel: +44 (0)191 208 3903
Learning and Teaching Conference: Education for Life: celebrating partnership, encouraging innovation Wednesday 21 March 2018 Registration open at http://bit.ly/ncllt18
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From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stuart Anderson
Sent: 01 February 2018 10:17
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Word Limit on Wiki Tool in Blackboard
Hi Graeme,
We got stung by this problem too. Yanna is correct that the character limit that can be submitted through the HTML editor is capped across several tools (wiki, blog, journal, etc). You can set this value yourself by changing the "Safe HTML Policy". We increased our limit to 1000KB of data (1 million characters). Note this includes all the underlying HTML characters too. However, following our upgrade to Bb 2017 Q2, we found a bug that was specifically affecting the Wiki tool where the Safe HTML Policy value was ignored and the character limit was fixed at 200,000. The error message you see is along the lines of:
"Must not contain more than 200000 characters: Content.
Reduce the size of the input by XXXX characters."
This bug is addressed in Cumulative Update 3 for Blackboard Learn, 9.1 Q2 2017:
https://blackboard.secure.force.com/apex/btbb_articleview?homepage=true&id=kA039000000HEVzCAO
See item:
Changing Wiki Character Limit Through the MaxInputSize in Safe HTML Policy does not work - Article # 43292 https://blackboard.secure.force.com/btbb_articleview?id=kA339000000Cf8e
Therefore upgrade to CU3 to get rid of the problem you are experiencing.
Best wishes,
Stuart
Stuart Anderson | Assistant eLearning Manager, Faculty of Science and Engineering | University of Manchester | Room C55 Sackville Building, Sackville Street, Manchester, M13 9PL | tel: +44 (0) 161 30 64168 | www.elearning.eps.manchester.ac.uk<http://www.elearning.eps.manchester.ac.uk/>
Want to brush up your skills in using Blackboard?... View our current training opportunities for FSE teaching and support staff - https://goo.gl/iZN3w5
From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Yanna Nedelcheva
Sent: 01 February 2018 10:00
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Word Limit on Wiki Tool in Blackboard
Hello Graeme,
There is a limit on the number of characters a student can submit through the GUI regardless of the tool used, it could be a wiki, blog, journal, etc.
This was previously set to 100 000 characters. However, the new policy from the end of 2016 (if memory serves) allows 200 000 characters.
Just make sure you are on the new Policy.
Best wishes,
Yanna
_______________
Yanna Nedelcheva, MPhil
Senior Education Technology Specialist
University of Westminster
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Phone: 0207 911 5000 ext 66012
From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> on behalf of Graeme Redshaw-Boxwell <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Reply-To: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Date: Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 09:29
To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Word Limit on Wiki Tool in Blackboard
Hello,
While visiting one of our academic units yesterday, I was asked about the word limit on the Blackboard Wiki tool. The academic said that it had restricted what they were looking to do with the tool. I wasn’t aware that there was a word/character limit on wiki pages. I’ve found in their help pages that there is a 2000 character limit on comments, but have not found anything for the Wiki Pages.
Can anyone confirm if there is a limit, and if so what it is?
Best wishes,
Graeme
Graeme Redshaw-Boxwell
Learning Enhancement and Technology Team Manager Learning and Teaching Development Service Marjorie Robinson Library Rooms, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 8HW
Tel: +44 (0)191 208 3903
Learning and Teaching Conference: Education for Life: celebrating partnership, encouraging innovation Wednesday 21 March 2018 Registration open at http://bit.ly/ncllt18
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This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system.
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