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…
We’ve made a few video tutorials to help support you in using Blackboard 9. These video tutorials are made using a technique called screencasting, where a programme records what someone does on their computer screen, and then turns it into a video. You can also add audio to them during the production process. We’ve focused…
The Staff Enrolment Tool is one of the few locally created tools in Blackboard, so we have taken the opportunity to improve it in Blackboard 9 based on feedback from staff over the past years. Staff had commented that it was difficult to see which staff members were already enrolled upon a Blackboard site so module leaders…
Support for e-learning at Sheffield Hallam has evolved over the last couple of years. To find out where to go for the kind of help you need here’s a breakdown of what’s available : Self-help A comprehensive knowledge-base with step-by-step instructions for how to use Blackboard tools is available in the Bb-support tab in shuspace. In…
The start of the semester is quickly approaching, and many of you will be preparing your Blackboard sites for the coming semester. To help you with this the Bb-support tab includes a section called Start of the Semester, which contains a checklist for preparing your site, along with step-by-step instructions. One important thing (included in…