This article is part of a series explaining the enhancements that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 18-20 January 2019. Collaborate Ultra is now listed as one of the communication and collaboration tools available for groups. When creating groups within your Blackboard sites you can allow group members to use…
This article is part of a series explaining the enhancements that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 18-20 January 2019. The Attendance tool allows instructors to manually create a record of student attendance in each Blackboard site. Blackboard will automatically create an attendance session labelled today, but instructors can create…
This article is part of a series explaining the enhancements that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 18-20 January 2019. The Blackboard Instructor app now allows Instructors and graders to review, annotate and grade student submission attempts and publish the grades back to students on iOS (Apple) and Android devices.…
This article is part of a series explaining the enhancements that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 18-20 January 2019. Instructors and students will have the option to download files that have been marked-up with Box View annotations. This function will be available for text-based file formats supported by Box…
Turnitin have a scheduled system maintenance on Saturday 5th January 2019 from 16:00 until midnight (6th January). Due to the maintenance, Turnitin will be unavailable between those times.
We have scheduled an upgrade to Blackboard to take place during the weekend of 18-20 January 2019. The upgrade will begin at 5pm on Friday 18 January and continue throughout the weekend. We anticipate that Blackboard will be available again by the morning of Sunday 20 January but it should be considered at risk all…
We’ve updated the staff Assessment essentials channel on Blackboard to incorporate the links to resources and notification tools that are available to students via their Assessment essentials channel. The intention is to give staff knowledge of the resources and notifications provided to students to help them manage their assessments – and they can refer students…
Jisc have published their Digital experience insights survey 2018: findings from students in UK further and higher education. The report shares the findings from their 2018 student digital experience insights survey on students expectations and experiences of technology. An at-a-glance summary of the findings is also available. The data presented in this report was collected…
The Blackboard upgrade scheduled for this weekend (14-16 September) has been postponed. This is to allow further time for Blackboard to release improvements to Box View such as the ability to download annotated files. These improvements are scheduled to be released this autumn. We are currently investigating the best time to upgrade Blackboard later in…
Turning Point Lunch & Learn event, Tuesday 18th September, 12:15 to 14:45 at City Campus On Tuesday 18th September we will be joined by Turning Point for a ‘Lunch & Learn’ staff development session. Turning Point is an easy-to-use polling and assessment solution which SHU has a staff license for. It allows learners to participate…