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…
Please note that shuspace and Blackboard will be unavailable for approximately 3 hours from 18:00 on Friday 11 April 2014 for scheduled maintenance. During this time staff and students will not be able to access shuspace and Blackboard sites. Therefore please avoid scheduling teaching and learning activities in Blackboard during this short period, such as…
A recent Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) security update will cause IE 11 to crash when an instructor accesses a Blackboard site with Edit Mode on. It can also affect students attempting to use the private or group blogs, or wiki tools in Blackboard. Our university machines have Internet Explorer 9 installed on them and there…
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…
Each year at the start of September we archive Blackboard organisation sites from the previous year (2012/13 in this case). This is to clean up the view for staff and students and ensure the correct Blackboard sites are used in the coming year. This year Blackboard organisation sites will be archived on 16/09/2013. This does not…
In this case study, a tutor from HWB shared her experiences of using an online problem based learning approach to promote the development of intrapreneurial (an individual intention or drive to innovate within an organisation, developing and implementing novel solutions to organisational problems) skills in health professionals undertaking a postgraduate module. The tutor found that…
This is a reminder about this summer’s two upgrade periods for the Blackboard system: 12-14 July 2013 and 26-28 July 2013. It is also a repost of earlier information. Upgrade key points: Upgrade type When What changes Blackboard hardware From 6pm Friday 12th and all day Saturday 13th July (at risk Sunday 14th) No changes to Blackboard functionality Blackboard software…
Every Blackboard site includes a link called Blackboard Help by default. This links to student Blackboard Help articles which give them support in using features of Blackboard and other related e-learning tools. We did a review of the e-learning articles for students and determined that we had too many articles and the information students wanted the…
At the end of March, Stuart Hepplestone (from the TEL Team in QESS) will be participating in a Blackboard community focus group on using Twitter in learning and teaching. The purpose of this is to consider ways in which Blackboard could make this experience more powerful and engaging for you and your students. If you are…