Over the summer months, staff will be preparing their 2013/14 Blackboard sites so they are ready to use with students. Supported time sessions will be available from July through to September where you can prepare your site with a member of the Technology Enhanced Learning Team on hand to explain the process and provide support.…
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…
The process of automatically copying Blackboard sites for the 2013/14 academic year is now complete, and you will be able to access your new sites and start preparing them. Staff enrolments will be carried across to the new sites. You will need to use the staff enrolment tool in the control panel to add any…
We recommend you hide the Grade Centre column from students during the marking process. This means that when you upload grades and feedback to a student that they can’t immediately see their results. This helps facilitate second marking practices, where grades and feedback may get adjusted before they are given to students. Also when marks and feedback are…
Did you know that there is an easy way to quickly navigate betweeen students in the Grade Centre during grading without having to go back to and load the Grade Centre spreadsheet each time? Once you have accessed a student’s attempt in the Grade Centre for grading, you can simply move to the next student…
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.
Blackboard will be ‘at risk’ between 6:00pm and 7:30pm on Friday 26 October 2012 and students should avoid taking tests or submitting assignments during this period. This is also a general reminder that deadlines for assessment attempts and assignment submissions in Blackboard should not be set after 4:00pm on Fridays, or at any time on…
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…