Sessions for 28th October – 5th November

Below are sessions taking place over the next two weeks.  For more information or to book a place, please click on the link below: Good practice in Blackboard 9 site design and preparation Thursday 28th October, 11:30am – 1:00pm, Owen 330, City Campus Using Turnitin for automatic referencing feedback Monday 1st November, 10-11:00am, Howard 5221, City…

Sessions for 24 September – 1 October

Below are sessions taking place over the next week.  For more information or to book a place, please click on the link below: Good practice in Blackboard 9 site design and preparation Friday 24th September, 9:30-11am, Adsetts 6624, City Campus Supported time for preparing your 2010/11 sites Monday 27th September, 3-4pm, Adsetts 6624 (accessed from…

Did you know? Students and personal email addresses

Did you know that now students can have their Blackboard emails automatically forwarded to another email address, such as a personal or work email? One frequent question from staff over the years has been if students can choose to receive Blackboard emails at an account other than their SHU email address.  As part of last summer’s email upgrade to…

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…

Blackboard 9: What’s New channel

One new feature of Blackboard 9 is the What’s New channel, part of the new Module Home Page section.  This channel notifies staff and students about content that has been added recently which is visible to those users.  It also notifies users about unread discussion board messages in both general and group discussion boards.  This…