Box View have introduced a drawing mode. To access the drawing mode, click the ‘pencil’ button in the toolbar in the top right of Box View. You can then mark-up student papers with free-hand drawings or strike-through text. It is currently limited to drawing using black ink only. Please note the following caution…
This summer’s Blackboard upgrade is scheduled to take place during the weekend 27-29 July 2018. The upgrade will start at 5pm on Friday 27th July and continue throughout the weekend. It is predicted that the Blackboard system will be available again by the morning of Sunday 29th July but it should be considered at risk…
Turnitin has advised us that the service will be unavailable to all users from 4pm – 10pm on Saturday 17 March. This maintenance is due to hardware updates and performance improvements that will ensure Turnitin remains stable, particularly during high submission periods.
The Blackboard inline marking tool Crocodoc is being replaced with Box View by its suppliers. Blackboard do not have any control over this change and have provided us with an update to allow us to make this change to the new product. The new Box View tool adds support for viewing more file types and works in…
The Assessment Statement (going live on 22 September) will provide students with the formal and consolidated course view of the summative tasks and sub-tasks that contribute to their overall award. The statement will show assessment dates for the current and previous years, and students will be able to access the statement via My Student Record >…
Turnitin will not be available for any purpose on Saturday 5 August 2017, 3pm-9pm, due to essential maintenance. This means students will not be able to upload work, and both students and staff will not be able to access reports during that time period. We apologise for any inconvenience, however we have no control over…
A new solution has been integrated with Blackboard which will allow students and staff to upload media files (currently, upto 2GB in size), such as video assignments and video or audio feedback, safe in the knowledge that the files are stored securely. Other benefits of this new solution for handling media files include: files are…
We have been informed that Turnitin will not be available for any purpose on Saturday 7 January 2017, 3pm-11pm due to essential maintenance. This means students will not be able to submit their work and staff will not be able to access reports during that time period. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause…
If you are using Blackboard Feedback Rubrics when marking over the Christmas break, read the following tips and guidance to ensure that you are using them effectively: 1. When marking only open and mark using one view of the Feedback Rubric to avoid losing feedback You must not start marking using the panel view (shown…
There is a potential issue affecting students who submit their assignments to Blackboard using the Microsoft Edge browser. Students who submit their work using Edge and who have a copy of the work open whilst the submission is in progress are encountering an issue whereby the content of the file that is submitted becomes blank…