A range of resources to support students in their use of social media is now available. Students can access these four resources at http://go.shu.ac.uk/socialmedia. The resources include – How to use social media responsibly – a guide for students – explaining why and how students need to be responsible in their use of…
Please note that TurnitinUK will have a scheduled system maintenance on Saturday 10 August 2013 from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM BST. Due to the maintenance, TurnitinUK may be briefly unavailable between those times meaning that you might be unable to access student submissions or originality reports and students may find that they are unable to…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 26-28 July 2013. The My Blackboard toolbar is a dropdown menu which appears at the top of shuspace. It gives users and overview of activity across their Blackboard…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 26-28 July 2013. In the new version of Blackboard, the appearance of the Discussion Board has been improved. Now when you are viewing specific posts they display in…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 26-28 July 2013. Blackboard has had a Calendar tool for many years but it has been of poor quality and we have not recommended its use. In the…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 26-28 July 2013. The new version of Blackboard has an improved text editor. The text editor is the toolbar that provides Word-like editing features in some text areas,…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 26-28 July 2013. The Inline Grading tool will allow you to view, provide feedback on, and grade student-submitted assignment files without leaving the Grade Assignment page (i.e. the…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 26-28 July 2013. The Test Item Analysis tool provides statistics on overall test performance and individual test questions (notably item difficulty and item discrimination) to help recognise questions that might…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 26-28 July 2013. Based on user feedback we have been able to change the Announcements channel on the Module Home Page. Now it will display the last ten…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 26-28 July 2013. New settings have been added to Tests enabling questions to be added to tests ‘on the fly’, and deployment options that allow exceptions and different…