This is a repost of information about the Blackboard upgrades this summer This summer we will have two upgrade periods scheduled for the Blackboard system. Students and staff will not be able to access shuspace and Blackboard sites during the upgrade periods. Please do not schedule teaching and learning activities in Blackboard during these times,…
This is a repost of information about the Blackboard upgrades this summer This summer we will have two upgrade periods scheduled for the Blackboard system. Students and staff will not be able to access shuspace and Blackboard sites during the upgrade periods. Please do not schedule teaching and learning activities in Blackboard during these times,…
This summer we will have two upgrade periods scheduled for the Blackboard system. Students and staff will not be able to access shuspace and Blackboard sites during the upgrade periods. Please do not schedule teaching and learning activities in Blackboard during these times, such as online submission of assessments. The first upgrade will be to…
This article is the last of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade coming up 20-21 July. The Blackboard upgrade includes various other changes to benefit staff and students. These include: Ability to navigate between sites quickly After the upgrade you 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 coming up 20-21 July. During this summer we are implementing a new Blackboard product called Collaborate. Collaborate is a virtual classroom tool which is about facilitating synchronous (at the same…
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 coming up 20-21 July. In Blackboard, a feedback rubric is a tool that displays the assessment criteria for an assignment; they will be available on Blackboard after the upgrade. Feedback rubrics can…
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 coming up 20-21 July. As part of the upgrade, there are various improvements being introduced to the Blackboard test feature. This feature allows you to set up multiple choice, multiple…
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 coming up 20-21 July. The upgrade will be the next step in transitioning the Blackboard online submission tool from SHU Assignments, a custom Sheffield Hallam tool, to the default Assignment tool Blackboard…
During the testing of the upgrade process, we determined that we could minimise downtime for staff and students by beginning the upgrade on Friday, 20 July at 17.00 UK time instead of Saturday morning as originally advertised. This should mean the upgrade will be complete by lunchtime on Saturday. However the system should be considered at risk on…