The Assessment Statement (going live on 22 September) will provide students with the formal and consolidated course view of the summative tasks and sub-tasks that contribute to their overall award. The statement will show assessment dates for the current and previous years, and students will be able to access the statement via My Student Record >…
Following last weekend’s Blackboard upgrade, a refresh of shuspace is now underway. You may have noticed some of the changes already, others are still in the process of being implemented and are expected to be finished by the end of the week. This refresh has been driven by student feedback on shuspace which highlighted a need…
We have now successfully completed the upgrade of Blackboard. In addition to the changes discussed in earlier blog posts, there are a few other changes worth drawing to your attention. Blackboard Collaborate Ultra/Classic – If last year you set up a Blackboard Collaborate link in your Blackboard site, it will now redirect to the Classic…
Turnitin will not be available for any purpose on Saturday 5 August 2017, 3pm-9pm, due to essential maintenance. This means students will not be able to upload work, and both students and staff will not be able to access reports during that time period. We apologise for any inconvenience, however we have no control over…
As part of the upcoming Blackboard upgrade a new feature called Achievements will be made available. This tool allows staff to create digital badges that can be awarded to students, either manually or automatically according to a defined set of criteria, to either recognise student achievement or provide them with a way to track their…
This is a reminder about the Blackboard upgrade taking place at the end of July. The upgrade will start at 6pm on Friday 28th July 2017 and is expected to be completed on the afternoon of Saturday 29th July 2017. However, Blackboard should be considered at risk throughout all of Sunday 30th July, which means…
Starting on 31 May 2017 we will try to automatically set up Blackboard sites for the coming academic year. We expect the process to take about a week. Module sites Where a 2017/8 module is indicated as running in SITS (i.e. marked active with a module leader) and had a Blackboard site in 2016/7, we…
This summer’s Blackboard upgrade is scheduled to take place during the weekend 28-30 July 2017. The upgrade will start at the end of the day on Friday, 28th July and continue throughout the weekend. It is predicted that the Blackboard system will be available again by the morning of Sunday the 30th but it should be considered at…
A new solution has been integrated with Blackboard which will allow students and staff to upload media files (currently, upto 2GB in size), such as video assignments and video or audio feedback, safe in the knowledge that the files are stored securely. Other benefits of this new solution for handling media files include: files are…
We have been informed that Turnitin will not be available for any purpose on Saturday 7 January 2017, 3pm-11pm due to essential maintenance. This means students will not be able to submit their work and staff will not be able to access reports during that time period. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause…