This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 26-28 July 2013. Blackboard has had a Calendar tool for many years but it has been of poor quality and we have not recommended its use. In the…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 26-28 July 2013. The new version of Blackboard has an improved text editor. The text editor is the toolbar that provides Word-like editing features in some text areas,…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 26-28 July 2013. The Inline Grading tool will allow you to view, provide feedback on, and grade student-submitted assignment files without leaving the Grade Assignment page (i.e. the…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 26-28 July 2013. The Test Item Analysis tool provides statistics on overall test performance and individual test questions (notably item difficulty and item discrimination) to help recognise questions that might…
This is a reminder about the Blackboard upgrade taking place this weekend. We expect the upgrade to start at 6pm on Friday 26th and be completed in less than 24 hours. However Blackboard should be considered at risk on Sunday 28th, which means it may not be available if additional time is needed. This will…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 26-28 July 2013. Based on user feedback we have been able to change the Announcements channel on the Module Home Page. Now it will display the last ten…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade scheduled for 26-28 July 2013. New settings have been added to Tests enabling questions to be added to tests ‘on the fly’, and deployment options that allow exceptions and different…
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…
This summer we will have two upgrade periods for the Blackboard system: 12-14 July and 26-28 July. 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 upgrade From 6pm Friday 26th and all…
We regret to inform you that we will need to delay the upgrade to the Blackboard hardware and operating system scheduled for this coming weekend. During recent testing we identified some functionality that was not performing at the speeds we expected and that would negatively affect staff during the marking period in particular. We decided…