Students attempting to access Collaborate sessions from links added to content areas in Blackboard sites will receive an error. This issue is a consequence of the Blackboard upgrade that took place on 11-13 July 2014, and is being worked on as a matter of urgency. In the meantime, if you have Collaborate sessions that you wish…
This article is part of a series explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 11-13 July 2014. You will notice that the way in which Blackboard Collaborate sessions are created and scheduled looks slightly different and more streamlined. In addition to scheduling a Collaborate…
This article is part of a series explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 11-13 July 2014. The student My Grades tool has a refreshed look and feel with newly introduced filtering and ordering options, including viewing only graded, upcoming (in progress or not started),…
This article is part of a series explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 11-13 July 2014. The Date Management tool allows the availability and due dates for existing items in a Blackboard site to be easily adjusted from a single location. This includes…
This article is part of a series explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 11-13 July 2014. The new Student Preview mode enables you to experience your site exactly as your students do, e.g. view available content, submit assignments, take tests, create discussion posts,…
Reminder: This summer’s Blackboard upgrade is scheduled to take place during the weekend 11-13 July 2014. NB. This is a repost of some information originally published on 11 April 2014. The upgrade will begin at 18:00 on Friday 11th July and should be completed within 24 hours. Staff and students will not be able to…
Each year we automatically create copies of Blackboard sites for the coming academic year. This year the process will begin on Monday 2 June and is expected to take about a week to complete. The copied sites include the content from the current year’s site but not the announcements, discussions or Grade Centre columns. Only…
This summer’s Blackboard upgrade is scheduled to take place during the weekend 11-13 July 2014. It is anticipated that the upgrade will begin at 18:00 on Friday 11th July and should be completed within 24 hours. Staff and students will not be able to access shuspace and Blackboard sites during the upgrade period. Therefore please…
Blackboard are seeking staff and student opinions about virtual collaboration tools. The information collected will help inform future developments made to Blackboard Collaborate. If you have used Blackboard Collaborate in your practice (or have experience of other real-time collaboration tools such as Adobe Connect or Skype) and wish to feed into this process, please complete…
Have you seen the red box with a number at the upper right of shuspace and wondered what it is? Well shuspace now has a feature to help you keep track of activity across your Blackboard sites. In the top right of the screen you will see your name: the number after it will tell you how…