Digital Capability is often described as the skills, knowledge and attitude required to work and live in an increasingly digital world, but what does that actually mean? Although the ability to do things using digital tools is an important part of it, it’s equally important to focus on being prepared for the kinds of things you’ll…
Blackboard will be temporarily unavailable for about an hour, starting at 6pm on Friday, 1 February. This is due to a need to apply security patches to systems Blackboard relies on, and unfortunately this could not be done at the same time as the recent upgrade. Please do not schedule any online learning and teaching activities…
This is a reminder that an upgrade to Blackboard is scheduled to take place during the weekend of 18-20 January 2019. The upgrade will begin at 5 pm on Friday 18 January and continue throughout the weekend. We anticipate that Blackboard will be available again during the afternoon of Saturday 19 January but it is…
The tool for enrolling students on or removing students from an organisation site will be updated during the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 18-20 January 2019. This updated tool will now instantly enrol students on or instantly remove students from an organisation site. There will no longer be a delay while the system updates site enrolments.…
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…
Turnitin says the problems they experienced are now fixed, and everyone should be able to access it as usual again. They apologise for the length of the outage. If you are still experiencing any difficulties accessing Turnitin after restarting your browser, please contact IT Help.
Some users may have trouble logging into Turnitin right now. Turnitin is trying to fix this issue as quickly as possible.
This is just a reminder that the Guidelines for students on recording teaching which were approved last year are available on MyHallam under the Rules and Regulations (IT section). We have also created a companion set of FAQ for staff about the student guidelines to help support staff.