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…
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…
Staff members at Sheffield Hallam University are eligible to purchase heavily discounted Microsoft software for use on their own laptop or PC. This means that the latest Pro versions of Windows 7 and 8 are available for only £7.80 pounds each, as are the latest Pro versions of Office for Windows and Mac. You can purchase the software from…
Blackboard are seeking staff and student opinions about virtual collaboration tools. The information collected will help inform future developments made to Blackboard Collaborate. If you have used Blackboard Collaborate in your practice (or have experience of other real-time collaboration tools such as Adobe Connect or Skype) and wish to feed into this process, please complete…
A recent Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) security update will cause IE 11 to crash when an instructor accesses a Blackboard site with Edit Mode on. It can also affect students attempting to use the private or group blogs, or wiki tools in Blackboard. Our university machines have Internet Explorer 9 installed on them and there…
Some staff may have missed this but we think it will be very popular among staff, so we wanted to re-highlight this recent message from IS&T. Soon it will be possible to access your timetable inside of Outlook, and you will be emailed instructions on how to do this. For more details please read the full message.
Staff who use Google apps on a University PCs may have noticed a message saying they are using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer. This happens with gmail, google calendars, google docs, google drive and google sites for both personal and institutional Google accounts. The message gives a link to upgrade the web browser. Please…
We are planning to hold an event on the 7th March 2014 showcasing some of the ways that Google Apps are effectively being used in teaching, along with some practical workshops. Are you using Google Apps in an innovative way? would you like to present what you have been doing or deliver a workshop on…
The Technology Enhanced Learning team has been working with staff across the university to develop resources to assist academic staff in identifying alternative teaching approaches and technologies suitable to their discipline. Along with the various materials, we have also designed a workshop to support this process. The workshops – aimed at department or subject groups…
Submissions to Turnitin made by students between 22 January and 29 January 2014 may not have appeared in the Grade Centre. This issue is now resolved, and those submissions should now appear. If you have submissions that you think should appear but don’t, you can ‘force’ the submissions to synchronise with the Grade Centre by: Expand Control Panel…