Blackboard workshops for September 2012

Supported time sessions for preparing 2012/13 Blackboard sites and Blackboard Assignments & Grade Centre workshops will be continuing throughout September. Supported time sessions are a time where you will be able to prepare your 2012/13 Blackboard sites with e-learning staff on hand to explain the process and provide support. If you have content ready to be…

Blackboard Assignments and Grade Centre workshops

Whether a long time or new user of assignment submissions through Blackboard and the  Grade Centre to publish feedback and grades to students, come along and see a variety of existing and new* functionality available within Blackboard Assignments and the Grade Centre that can enable and support efficient and effective assignment management and feedback online.…

Preparing your 2012/13 Blackboard sites – more sessions available

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…

2012/13 Blackboard sites will be copied shortly

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…

Preparing your 2012/13 Blackboard sites

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…

What is shuplayer?

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…

Upcoming session: Online problem-based learning

19 April, 12-1, led by Chrissi Nerantzi, Education Developer at the University of Salford Chrissi Nerantzi is visiting Sheffield Hallam on 19 April, and has agreed to lead a session on her knowledge of online Problem-Based Learning (PBL) practices. In this session participants will explore the benefits and challenges of cross-institutional learning using a PBL approach and hear findings from…

Change to Assignment submission tool in Blackboard

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…