From today, staff have access to the Blackboard 9 Site Development System. This separate Blackboard 9 system is for developing your blank template 2010/11 sites and becoming familiar with Blackboard 9 before the upgrade of the live system on 2 July. The Blackboard 9 Site Development System will be available until 25 June. You can…
In July 2010 we will be upgrading to Blackboard 9. This post tells you what will happen prior to the upgrade and what you need to know now. From 12th April a Blackboard 9 Site Development System will be available for you to become familiar with the new system, and to develop your sites for…
As a part of the Refreshing e-learning at SHU initiative, Blackboard will be upgraded to Blackboard 9 in July this year. Blackboard 9 has a more modern interface and is estimated to take about 40% fewer clicks to accomplish the same tasks. Other benefits include: What’s New channel to notify students and staff when new…
There have recently been some issues raised around students using the Google Chrome browser when accessing Blackboard at home. Chrome is not installed on campus machines. The most common problem when using Chrome occurs when submitting assignments on Blackboard. If students try to submit a file using Chrome, they will receive a message that their file type is invalid…
The online SHU Module Survey tool has now been replaced by a customisable Blackboard survey. We received many staff requests for the survey questions to be customisable for their module and for the ability to capture student results at more than two points. We also determined that we needed a survey tool that would work…
*** Blackboard: Archiving of 2008/9 Sites *** Blackboard sites from 2008/9 will be archived/deleted on Friday 18th September 2009. Archived sites will be retained on the system for 1 year after archive, which means that although you will not be able to access them, they can be retrieved in case of any query or appeal…