Over the summer months, staff will be preparing their 2012/13 Blackboard sites so they are ready to use with students. Supported time sessions will be available from late May through to August where you can prepare your site with e-learning staff on hand to explain the process and provide support. The session will also provide…
Shortly we will finish the process of automatically copying Blackboard sites for the 2012/13 academic year, and you will be able to access your new sites and start preparing them. When the sites are finished being copied, an email will be sent to all staff. Staff enrolments will be carried across to the new sites. You will need…
Over the summer months, staff will be preparing their 2012/13 Blackboard sites so they are ready to use with students. Supported time sessions will be available from late May through to August where you can prepare your site with e-learning staff on hand to explain the process and provide support. The session will also provide help and…
This is part of a regular series of articles exploring some of the terms used in e-learning. We’ll do our best to break down the jargon and explain what things are from a basic perspective. shuplayer is a university website that supports the use of video and audio for teaching and learning. It can be accessed from a link…
The IT Help service now has its own twitter feed, which it will be using to point out information and self-help guidance about IT to staff and students. Look there for tips on getting the most out of the software the University provides. Follow them on twitter at @ITHelpSHU, or look at the right menu bar of…
This summer we are planning to transition our Blackboard online submission tool from SHU Assignments, a custom Sheffield Hallam tool, to the default Assignment tool Blackboard provides. This is being done to ensure that we can take advantage of current and future enhancements to the online submission, grades and feedback features of Blackboard. More details…
Social media are channels that “allow users to share information about themselves and their interests” (Cunnane, 2010). These include sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube. These channels are reasonably new to the world, and the effects of interacting with them are not always clear to users. To help address this, we now have guidelines about…
The shuTech student blog was launched last February as a resource to provide support and information on the use of technology to improve the student experience. It is student-led, with the content written by two student e-learning assistants, Holly and Andy, and it is aimed directly at Hallam students. The blog has recently undergone a…
You may have noticed that a new Content Collection area appeared as the top sub-menu in the Control Panel yesterday. Most staff can ignore this area, as it is not necessary to manage your site. We have enabled it to allow those staff who use package files (zip files of learning objects) to more easily add…
This is a reminder that deadlines for assessments in Blackboard (such as Assignment and Turnitin submissions, Test attempts, and Self-and-Peer Assessments) should not be set after 4:00pm on Fridays, or at any time on Saturdays, Sundays, or when the University is closed for holidays. These times are considered ‘at-risk’ periods when essential systems maintenance on…