Please note that TurnitinUK will have a scheduled system maintenance on Saturday 10 August 2013 from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM BST. Due to the maintenance, TurnitinUK may be briefly unavailable between those times meaning that you might be unable to access student submissions or originality reports and students may find that they are unable to…
This is a reminder about the Blackboard upgrade taking place this weekend. We expect the upgrade to start at 6pm on Friday 26th and be completed in less than 24 hours. However Blackboard should be considered at risk on Sunday 28th, which means it may not be available if additional time is needed. This will…
In May 2012 we discontinued the ability to add Learning Objects blogs and wikis to Blackboard sites as part of a two year programme to phase them out. The final step of this programme will be to disable them completely on the system on the evening of 24 July when our license expires. This means that old…
This is a reminder about this summer’s two upgrade periods for the Blackboard system: 12-14 July 2013 and 26-28 July 2013. It is also a repost of earlier information. Upgrade key points: Upgrade type When What changes Blackboard hardware From 6pm Friday 12th and all day Saturday 13th July (at risk Sunday 14th) No changes to Blackboard functionality Blackboard software…
Every Blackboard site includes a link called Blackboard Help by default. This links to student Blackboard Help articles which give them support in using features of Blackboard and other related e-learning tools. We did a review of the e-learning articles for students and determined that we had too many articles and the information students wanted the…
The process of automatically copying Blackboard sites for the 2013/14 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…
This summer we will have two upgrade periods for the Blackboard system: 12-14 July and 26-28 July. Upgrade key points: Upgrade type When What changes Blackboard hardware From 6pm Friday 12th and all day Saturday 13th July (at risk Sunday 14th) No changes to Blackboard functionality Blackboard software upgrade From 6pm Friday 26th and all…
We regret to inform you that we will need to delay the upgrade to the Blackboard hardware and operating system scheduled for this coming weekend. During recent testing we identified some functionality that was not performing at the speeds we expected and that would negatively affect staff during the marking period in particular. We decided…
Through the Administration Undertaken by Academics project (part of the Academic Working Practices programme), some academic staff said they would like their external examiner be able to access their Blackboard site. For many years it has been possible to request an account which gives an external examiner access to Blackboard, but this does not seem…
This is a repost of information about the Blackboard upgrades this summer This summer we will have two upgrade periods scheduled for the Blackboard system. Students and staff will not be able to access shuspace and Blackboard sites during the upgrade periods. Please do not schedule teaching and learning activities in Blackboard during these times,…