This article is part of a series explaining the enhancements that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 18-20 January 2019. The Blackboard Instructor app now allows Instructors and graders to review, annotate and grade student submission attempts and publish the grades back to students on iOS (Apple) and Android devices.…
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.
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…
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…
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…
There is a potential issue affecting students who submit their assignments to Blackboard using the Microsoft Edge browser. Students who submit their work using Edge and who have a copy of the work open whilst the submission is in progress are encountering an issue whereby the content of the file that is submitted becomes blank…
We are pleased to announce a new receipting feature for our students when they submit their work online via a Blackboard Assignment. After their work is submitted, students will receive an email receipt confirming the details of their submission. For group assignments, all members of the group will receive an email confirming the group submission. All…
As part of the Assessment Journey Programme, a survey was sent at the start of the year to all academic staff involved in marking student work. The survey intended to capture marking practice at SHU during the period in which the survey was open. The responses from the 600 members of staff who completed the survey…
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. When setting up assignments you will notice there are some changes to way that the Create Assignment page looks and some additional options available. Many settings are now hidden…
If you want to know more about improving your screen reading experience, marking on-screen, or digital note taking – or you just want some pointers, you’re likely to find this resource really useful: The reading onscreen wordpress site (readingonscreen.wordpress.com) It’s been put together by York University in response to their staff requesting guidance in this…