Tomorrow morning (13 March), there will be a few changes to Blackboard based on issues students have had around the submission of work and viewing of feedback. Students using the Microsoft Edge web browser when submitting their work will receive a pop-up message warning them that we strongly recommend they use another browser. This is because Edge…
Box View have introduced a drawing mode. To access the drawing mode, click the ‘pencil’ button in the toolbar in the top right of Box View. You can then mark-up student papers with free-hand drawings or strike-through text. It is currently limited to drawing using black ink only. Please note the following caution…
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…
This week we completed the process for automatically setting up submission points and Grade Centre columns in 2017/18 Blackboard module sites for reassessment coursework and reassessment exams. Modules from the departments of Allied Health Professions, Social Work and Social Care, and Nursing and Midwifery have not been included in this automatic setup process at those…
Turnitin has advised us that the service will be unavailable to all users from 4pm – 10pm on Saturday 17 March. This maintenance is due to hardware updates and performance improvements that will ensure Turnitin remains stable, particularly during high submission periods.
PebblePad will be unavailable for approximately 20 minutes at 7am on 30 January as they complete an upgrade. Students and staff will be unable to access Pebble+ or ATLAS during that time. The service should be considered at risk for another 1 hour. There are two changes included in this upgrade. The first is a…
Currently, if you have Turnitin Assignment which you want students to upload their work to, you can set it so that students can upload work an unlimited amount of times up to the due date. In this instance, Turnitin will start generating an originality report for the students’ work immediately when they first upload a file…
Note that Turnitin has advised us that it will be unavailable to all users from 4pm on 27 December until 1am on 28 December. This is due to maintenance to add additional capacity to their service.
The Blackboard inline marking tool Crocodoc is being replaced with Box View by its suppliers. Blackboard do not have any control over this change and have provided us with an update to allow us to make this change to the new product. The new Box View tool adds support for viewing more file types and works in…
Each year we archive Blackboard organisation sites from the previous academic year. This is to clean up the view for staff and students and ensure the correct Blackboard sites are used in the coming year. This year, Blackboard organisation sites from 2016/7 will be archived on Wednesday 11th October. This means that they will disappear…