Did you know that Smart Views in Grade Centre can help you better manage and navigate the Grade Centre, for example enabling you to see a view of only your group of students rather than the entire cohort? These custom views (based on various criteria and filters that you choose from) can streamline the grading of student…
Two screencasts have been uploaded to YouTube showing students how to submit their work online through shuspace. One demonstrates how to submit individual assignments, the other how to submit group assignments. You can share these resources with students.
All staff received an email this past week about an incident where someone sent a group of students an email using the To: field and their personal email addresses. Personal email addresses and other personal data should not be shared in this way. It is best to send emails using Bcc: (where recipients do not see each…
We are please to announce that the Technology Enhanced Learning Strategy has been refreshed for the next three years. The TEL Strategy is updated each year, and includes an implementation plan which details the work that is scheduled for this year to help meet the aims, and an indication of actions for future years. We…
The last post told you about the changes to shuspace – the resources to support shuspace are now ready. There’s three short screencasts: http://tinyurl.com/introducingshuspace covers the main features of shuspace, explains some of the tools and gives a general picture of what it’s for and what you can do there http://tinyurl.com/informationshuspace goes into more detail…
This semester there’s a couple of small but significant changes that have happened to shuspace. The top bar on every tab used to just contain the search tool, but following student input, we’ve added other things to improve navigation and access to information… Firstly there’s a link to the directory of practical information. This means…
Hopefully you’ve been able to fully prepare your 2012/3 Blackboard sites so they are ready to use with your students (see key things you need to do to prepare your site). However some staff forget the crucial last step of making a site available to students. If you don’t make your sites available, then your students won’t be…
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…
If you are using Blackboard assignments for online submission of student work, please be aware that there is a bug which may affect you and your students. Once feedback files have been loaded into Grade Centre, students can access that feedback by revisiting the assignment hand-in point if that hand-in link is still set available…
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…