Did you know? Support for students

Did you know there is a lot of support available to help students use Blackboard? An extensive self-help knowledge base explaining how to use the features in Blackboard is available for all students. It can be accessed by going to http://bb-help.shu.ac.uk, by clicking on the “Blackboard Help” link in your 2010/11 sites, or through the…

Sessions for 18-30 August

The following are upcoming staff development opportunities for the next couple of weeks.  Click on the time for a booking form and description: Supported time for preparing your 2010/11 sites Wednesday 18th August, 12-1pm, Adsetts 6624, City Campus (accessed from inside the library) Thursday 19th August, 3-4pm, Adsetts 6624, City Campus (accessed from inside the…

Sessions for 2-16 August

The following are upcoming staff development opportunities for the next couple of weeks.  Click on the time for a booking form and description: Supported time for preparing your 2010/11 sites Monday 2nd August, 3-4pm, Adsetts 6624, City Campus (accessed from inside the library) Tuesday 3rd August, 10-11am, Learning Centre CO33, Collegiate Campus Thursday 5th August, 2-3pm,…

2010/11 Blackboard sites available now

All the 2010/11 sites have now been imported into the live Blackboard system, so you can continue preparing them for next year.  Remember that the process for preparing your sites is different this year, so you will need to copy over any content from existing sites that you want to have in your 2010/11 site.  However, you can copy…

Sessions for 13-27 July

The following are upcoming staff development opportunities for the next couple of weeks.  Click on the time for a booking form and description: Good practice in Blackboard 9 site design and preparation Tuesday 13 July, 1-2.30pm, Furnival 9307, City Campus Models of embedding e-learning into the curriculum Wednesday 14 July, 3-4pm, Owen 1021, City Campus…

Learn how to use Blackboard 9

You will probably have noticed that shuspace’s appearance has changed, and that the interface inside your Blackboard sites is different now because we’ve upgraded to Blackboard 9.  For many of you this will not be a surprise as over 40% of regular Blackboard users took advantage of early access to Blackboard 9 to preview the system…

What happens next for 2010/11 Blackboard sites?

From 12 April-25 June it was possible to start preparing your 2010/11  Blackboard sites in the Blackboard 9 Site Development System.  Now you will notice that that system is no longer available because the Blackboard admin team has begun exporting the 2010/11 sites out of it in preparation for the upgrade. The live system will be upgraded to…

Sessions for 24 June-8 July

The following are upcoming staff development opportunities for the next couple of weeks.  Click on the time for a booking form and description: Good practice in Blackboard 9 site design and preparation Thursday 24 June, 10-11.30am, Learning Centre C036, Collegiate Campus Possibilities in online formative assessment Thursday 24 June, 2-4pm, Stoddart 7509, City Campus Formative…

Blackboard 9 Site Development System – Final week

Remember, this is the last week staff can access the Blackboard 9 Site Development System, which lets you get used to Blackboard 9 before the upgrade (2 July) and start preparing your 2010/11 Blackboard sites. Next week the Blackboard admin team will start exporting the 2010/11 sites from the Site Development System and, after the upgrade, will begin putting them into…

Blackboard 9: Announcements changes

Announcements have had some subtle changes in Blackboard 9 that we think are worth pointing out. Starting with 2010/11 sites, Announcements has been replaced as the first page students see when entering a Blackboard site. Instead, the Module Home Page will be the first page users see.  The My Announcements channel on the home page will show the title…