After the upgrade on 8 July, there will be some changes to the Blackboard system. These changes are incremental in nature, building upon the existing interface (as compared to the changes last year which were much more significant). These changes include: The ability to attach multiple files to an item quickly without saving and re-editing…
As part of the Blackboard upgrade on 8 July, we will be moving to a new RSS feed tool in Blackboard. RSS feeds are ways of pulling information from regularly changing websites such as news sites, blogs or scholarly journals automatically into your Blackboard site. Read more about RSS feeds in an earlier blog article. Our current…
The automatic creation of 2011/12 Blackboard sites has now been completed. These 2011/12 sites contain a copy of the content from the corresponding 2010/11 site. This means the sites will need updating before they are ready to use with students next year. For instance you will want to update files such as module handbooks, ensure…
As a reminder, we will be upgrading to a new version of Blackboard from 17:00 on Friday 8th July, which result in downtime during that evening. Assessments should not be scheduled for Friday 8th July due to the upgrade. Assessments should also not be scheduled for Saturday 9th July and Sunday 10th July which are…
The new version of the Library Gateway is now live and ready for you to try out. The Library Gateway brings together all of the University’s electronic information sources in a simplified screen. However, many students still find it difficult to identify where they should start; they are confused by so many search boxes offering different options. What they want is to…
We’re pleased to announce that SHUgo, the University’s mobile app, is now available as an app for Android phones and available to all other web-enabled mobile phones through a mobile web version. We hope that a Blackberry app version will be available by the end of June as well. The map application has also been updated to include photos…
From the 21st May onwards, we will be creating 2011/12 versions of 2010/11 Blackboard sites by copying the contents of them. You will then need to prepare your 2011/12 site to ensure it is ready for use with students. There are three options to get your 2011/12 site set up: a) Normal automatic site copy…
Each separate cohort taking a module should have its own Blackboard module site. The majority of modules from the 2010/11 academic year will be taught again in 2011/12 with a new cohort, so we have an automatic copy process which copies the content of 2010/11 Blackboard sites into a 2011/12 version. This automatic copy process…
Recently the latest version of the Internet Explorer browser (IE9) was released by Microsoft. IE9 is not fully compatible with Blackboard, so you may encounter some errors if you try using it to access Blackboard. Therefore we are recommending that staff and students not upgrade their version of IE on their personal computers yet. We expect this to be resolved by…
In December we announced that SHUgo, the university’s mobile app, would be released shortly. The release took longer than expected due to unforeseen complications in releasing the app. However, we’re pleased to say that it is now available for use by staff, students and visitors at the University. For everyone who got a new smartphone for…