Blackboard will be unavailable from 5pm on Friday 1 May 2020 due to an essential security update. The University constantly monitors and acts on advice/updates from suppliers to ensure the security and performance of all SHU systems and this is part of that work. This is a preventative update and there has been no security…
This information has been moved to another webpage now. Note we are offering staff development sessions every day. For urgent queries please use our Digital Learning drop-in room (use Chrome browser to connect please), staffed 9-5 Monday-Friday, or email queries to digitallearning@shu.ac.uk
Blackboard will be unavailable from 5pm on Friday 7 February 2020 due to an essential security update. The University constantly monitors and acts on advice/updates from suppliers to ensure the security and performance of all SHU systems and this is part of that work. This is a preventative update and there has been no security…
About EesySoft Course Reports This article is part of a series explaining changes and new features introduced in Blackboard for the 2019/20 academic year. Despite its name, the EesySoft Course Report provides module level information on user activity and engagement with content and tools available in each Blackboard module site from the highest level down…
This article is part of a series explaining changes and new features introduced in Blackboard for the 2019/20 academic year. Earlier in the summer we announced that we would be adding a series of new channels to all 2019/20 Blackboard module site home pages. Now, we have launched the following two additional channels that pulls…
This article is part of a series explaining changes and new features introduced in Blackboard for the 2019/20 academic year. Course Grades Overview collates and provides a read-only view of all available grade columns (excluding survey, weighted total and total columns) from all module sites that an individual student is enrolled on. It displays academic…
This article is part of a series explaining changes and new features introduced in Blackboard for the 2019/20 academic year. If you use Collaborate from a Blackboard site, you can choose to have Collaborate send student attendance about that session to your site’s Attendance page. Attendance session reporting is off by default. You must turn attendance reporting…
This article is part of a series explaining changes and new features introduced in Blackboard for the 2019/20 academic year. Adding a due date to the linked grade column of a third party assessment tool (such as Turnitin and PebblePad) will now show to students in the Calendar and due date notifications. The due date…
This summer’s Blackboard upgrade will be undertaken in two phases. The first phase (2-4 August) is to enable an essential database update to the Blackboard servers. The second phase (30 August-1 September) is the actual Blackboard software update to provide us with additional features, bug fixes and security improvements. For the first phase of the upgrade, Blackboard…
To ensure students can access library resources from off-campus using a single username and password, Sheffield Hallam uses a server which adds some additional information into our resource URLs. The University moved to a new server (hallam.idm.oclc.org) last November from an old server (lcproxy.shu.ac.uk). All the links on the Library Gateway have been updated to…
Lynda.com is migrating to LinkedIn Learning on the 8th of July. The system will be down for approximately 18 hours and any staff or students who previously used Lynda.com will receive an email once the migration is complete. If you have previously used Lynda.com, everything from your Lynda.com account will be moved over, including your…
Turnitin have a scheduled system maintenance on Saturday 13 July 2019, from 16:00 until midnight. Due to the maintenance, Turnitin will be unavailable between those times.
Blackboard will be unavailable from 5pm on Friday 21 June 2019 due to a critical security update. The University constantly monitors and acts on advice/updates from suppliers to ensure the security and performance of all SHU systems and this is part of that work. Unfortunately this particular security update will require a greater period of downtime…
This article is part of a series explaining changes introduced as part of this year’s Blackboard rollover. We are automatically adding a series of new channels to all 2019/20 Blackboard module site home pages. These channels provide both students and staff with a consistent set of important information about that module directly from data held…
This article is part of a series explaining changes introduced as part of this year’s Blackboard rollover. Each section of a Blackboard module site has pop-up guidance to help you prepare your Blackboard sites in line with the University’s Threshold Standards for Supporting Learning with Technology. This guidance provides information about what that section of…