Pasting text from Word documents into Blackboard

Have you ever copied and pasted text from a Word document into Blackboard? If so you may have encountered problems with formatting, as Word tends to add a lot of extra hidden formatting in their documents that causes issues for Blackboard’s text editor and may mean that changing the font size, colour, etc. has no…

Blog/journal name change

At the time of the upgrade we applied a slight change in the terminology used to help clarify the available tools for staff.  Blackboard provides two types of blog tools with different functionality. Please see the new names for these below, along with an explanation of what each does: Shared blogs (formerly called blogs) allow…

New in Blackboard: Various improvements

This article is the last of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade coming up 20-21 July. The Blackboard upgrade includes various other changes to benefit staff and students. These include: Ability to navigate between sites quickly After the upgrade you will…

New in Blackboard: Collaborate – synchronous virtual classroom

This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade coming up 20-21 July. During this summer we are implementing a new Blackboard product called Collaborate. Collaborate is a virtual classroom tool which is about facilitating synchronous (at the same…

New in Blackboard: Feedback Rubrics – criteria based feedback

This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade coming up 20-21 July. In Blackboard, a feedback rubric is a tool that displays the assessment criteria for an assignment; they will be available on Blackboard after the upgrade. Feedback rubrics can…

New in Blackboard: Test improvements

This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade coming up 20-21 July. As part of the upgrade, there are various improvements being introduced to the Blackboard test feature. This feature allows you to set up multiple choice, multiple…

New in Blackboard: Assignment changes

This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade coming up 20-21 July. The upgrade will be the next step in transitioning the Blackboard online submission tool from SHU Assignments, a custom Sheffield Hallam tool, to the default Assignment tool Blackboard…