Reminder: This summer’s Blackboard upgrade is scheduled to take place during the weekend 11-13 July 2014. NB. This is a repost of some information originally published on 11 April 2014. The upgrade will begin at 18:00 on Friday 11th July and should be completed within 24 hours. Staff and students will not be able to…
The process of automatically copying Blackboard sites for the 2014/15 academic year is now complete, and you will be able to access your new sites and start preparing them. Staff enrolments will be carried across to the new sites. You will need to use the Staff Enrolment Tool in the Control Panel to add any…
Over the summer months, staff will be preparing their 2014/15 Blackboard sites so they are ready to use with students. Supported time sessions will be available from June through to September where you can prepare your site with a member of the central and/or faculty Technology Enhanced Learning teams on hand to explain the process and…
Each year we automatically create copies of Blackboard sites for the coming academic year. This year the process will begin on Monday 2 June and is expected to take about a week to complete. The copied sites include the content from the current year’s site but not the announcements, discussions or Grade Centre columns. Only…
This summer’s Blackboard upgrade is scheduled to take place during the weekend 11-13 July 2014. It is anticipated that the upgrade will begin at 18:00 on Friday 11th July and should be completed within 24 hours. Staff and students will not be able to access shuspace and Blackboard sites during the upgrade period. Therefore please…
Sheffield Hallam University has provided Google accounts for all students for some time, but has recently introduced them for staff too. This means that staff now have access to several very useful online tools which can be used to encourage collaboration amongst students, collaborating with colleagues, and work from varied locations. The key tools that…
Following the success of the first Social Media in LTA event in January, we are putting on two further events. These identical events will run one after the other on the morning of 1St May in Hallam Hall at City campus, and will both showcase ten examples of how colleagues and students are using social…
Please note that shuspace and Blackboard will be unavailable for approximately 3 hours from 18:00 on Friday 11 April 2014 for scheduled maintenance. During this time staff and students will not be able to access shuspace and Blackboard sites. Therefore please avoid scheduling teaching and learning activities in Blackboard during this short period, such as…
There are still places available on the current series of ‘roundtable’ events. The events provide an opportunity for informal discussion about enhancing teaching through the use of technology. Discussions are scheduled that focus on the application of specific technologies (such as Blackboard Collaborate, electronic voting systems, and Google apps), and there are those that concentrate…
There are still places available on the current series of ‘roundtable’ events (scheduled through to April 2014), with extra dates added. These events provide an opportunity for informal discussion about enhancing teaching through the use of technology. There are discussions that focus on the application of specific technologies (such as Blackboard Collaborate, open badges, electronic…