Rubrics in Blackboard have been renamed ‘Feedback Rubrics’. This reflects their primary purpose and is intended to clarify the term for both students and staff. If you have already begun to create and use Rubrics in your Blackboard sites, please note that the tool, now called ‘Feedback Rubrics’, is listed higher in the Site Tools…
We’d like to thank all the participants in the mobile innovations project who have provided us with case studies on their experiences and shared their practice across the university, through conference presentations, posters and faculty events. If you missed these events, you can check out some scenarios for mobile learning, and see some of the resources on the blog. As is…
If you are using Blackboard assignments for online submission of student work, please be aware that there is a bug which may affect you and your students. Once feedback files have been loaded into Grade Centre, students can access that feedback by revisiting the assignment hand-in point if that hand-in link is still set available…
At the time of the upgrade we applied a slight change in the terminology used to help clarify the available tools for staff. Blackboard provides two types of blog tools with different functionality. Please see the new names for these below, along with an explanation of what each does: Shared blogs (formerly called blogs) allow…
During the upcoming Blackboard upgrade, we will be transitioning away from SHU Assignments to the default Blackboard Assignment (see previous message about this transition). As part of this process, we have to release all of the feedback and grades available in existing SHU Assignments at the time of the upgrade (July 20-21). Students will not…
During the testing of the upgrade process, we determined that we could minimise downtime for staff and students by beginning the upgrade on Friday, 20 July at 17.00 UK time instead of Saturday morning as originally advertised. This should mean the upgrade will be complete by lunchtime on Saturday. However the system should be considered at risk on…
The Turnitin service may be unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period on Saturday 16 June 2012, from 15:00 to 19:00 UK time. During this time, it may not be possible to make submissions to Turnitin, nor view existing submissions and originality reports. If you do have any Turnitin assignments with a due date set during…
Shortly we will finish the process of automatically copying Blackboard sites for the 2012/13 academic year, and you will be able to access your new sites and start preparing them. When the sites are finished being copied, an email will be sent to all staff. Staff enrolments will be carried across to the new sites. You will need…
Note, we have now updated this article to reflect a change to the upgrade date. During upgrade testing, we determined that we could minimise downtime for staff and students by beginning the upgrade on Friday, 20 July at 5pm. This should mean the upgrade will be complete by lunchtime on Saturday. This is a reminder…
An email was circulated recently giving prior notice that the IT network will be shut down over the Spring Bank Holiday in June for essential work to enhance security. There will be no IT services available on the university network on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 June 2012. IT services should be available, but will…