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…
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…
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.