Jisc have published their Digital experience insights survey 2018: findings from students in UK further and higher education. The report shares the findings from their 2018 student digital experience insights survey on students expectations and experiences of technology. An at-a-glance summary of the findings is also available. The data presented in this report was collected…
The Blackboard upgrade scheduled for this weekend (14-16 September) has been postponed. This is to allow further time for Blackboard to release improvements to Box View such as the ability to download annotated files. These improvements are scheduled to be released this autumn. We are currently investigating the best time to upgrade Blackboard later in…
The University is to replace shuspace, our current student portal, with a new student portal called MyHallam. This will be hosted on the same content management system that runs our external webpages. The change is due to take place in early October,
In the end there were nearly 500 entries to student competition to choose a name for the new student portal replacing shuspace. The following five names were picked by the shortlisting panel: SHUniverse HallamHome HallamCentral MyHallam HallamSpace There was also a prize of SHU-branded items the shortlisting panel agreed to give to the most humourous name…
Turnitin has been added to SHU’s PebblePad system, meaning that student submissions can now be sent directly to Turnitin for originality checking rather than needing to be downloaded and sent separately. Guidance on how to enable the feature within an Atlas workspace and send student submissions to the service is available in TELHelp.
We have decided to reschedule the Blackboard upgrade originally planned for this weekend. This is to allow extra time for Blackboard to release improvements to Box View such as the ability to download annotated files. These improvements are scheduled to be released in August, so we have chosen a new upgrade date in September to…
For the last few years we have been hosted by a Blackboard Collaborate server in Canada rather than an EU one, as an EU server was not available at the time we signed up. However for reasons related to GDPR and to improve performance, we are moving to the EU server in September, with the exact…
The University is replacing shuspace, our current student portal, with a new student portal which will be hosted on the same system that runs our external webpages (www.shu.ac.uk). This new student portal will provide some advantages over the current shuspace, such as a modern look and feel, reduced duplication of web content, a better mobile…
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 will be completely unavailable from 4pm-midnight on Tuesday 10 July. Neither staff nor students will be able to access it during that period.