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Mode of Submission: Blackboard Assignment (rolling deadlines)

RISIS Mode of Submission Use for What’s created in Blackboard Students submit to Channel for feedback WC08 Bb assignment (rolling deadlines) Blackboard Assignment (rolling deadlines) Weighted Total column Blackboard Assignment Blackboard Assignment For use where students will be submitting work via a Blackboard Assignment, but the deadline is not the same for all students on […]

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Accessibility: Course Accessibility Report

Accessibility, Blackboard Ally

The Course Accessibility Report shows The report provides an easy way to see which content items in your course have been flagged with an issue, and to start remediating those issues, direct from the report. The course accessibility report also provides some help with prioritisation, as it shows options such as “Content that’s easiest to

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Blackboard guidance for External Examiners

Getting Started

Your School will provide you with information about Blackboard, and how you can access the specific information you require. Practices vary between Schools, so may not exactly match what is shown below. Logging on You should log on to Blackboard at www.bb.reading.ac.uk – see Blackboard Learn: Logging in. Please note that logging into Blackboard and many other University

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EMA Integration: Grade Import Exceptions – CAM32 Import Exception

Assessment & Feedback, Electronic Management of Assessment

This is an exception which may be listed on the daily Grade Import Exceptions report. What this means Marks have not been successfully imported into RISIS. There are a number of possible reasons for this – more information may be provided in the Exception Message e.g. Result already exists for ‘20123456/1,2018/9,Y,APMA91,A,APMA91-18,702’ Action to take Where the

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EMA Integration: Assessment Provisioning Exceptions – Invalid Assessment Title

Assessment & Feedback, Electronic Management of Assessment

The Assessment title contains characters which are not permitted. Shown on the daily Assessment Provisioning Exceptions report as per this example Exception SITS Invalid Assessment Title Group project: written report / case study You will need to amend the assessment title in RISIS, so that the relevant column / assessment can be created in Blackboard.

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EMA Integration: On-time and Post-deadline submission points

Blackboard Learn Ultra

When managing Turnitin and Blackboard assignments, some Schools prefer to have separate submission points: As part of the EMA Integration, rules for the creation of on-time and post-deadline submission points are programmed into RISIS. This has been done at Departmental level – so a consistent approach is taken on modules across the whole Department (and

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Grade Approval and Transfer – approving marks for transfer to RISIS

Assessment & Feedback, Gradebook

Once all the marks are in the IC columns in the gradebook, you are ready to approve and transfer the marks to RISIS. Once in RISIS you can add any penalties and students can view their marks in the RISIS dashboard. This process uses a third party tool called Mark Approval and Transfer, which can

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EMA Integration: RISIS guides

Electronic Management of Assessment

EMA Integration Checklist (Word document) Setting up assessments correctly in RISIS is crucial to the success of the integration. RISIS user guides are held on the RISIS portal. Once logged in, go to Helpdesk then View SIS Helpdesk FAQs. Then either search for an answer, or scroll down to EMA – Sub Modular Assessment. If you do

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Mode of Submission: Flexible assessment

Electronic Management of Assessment

RISIS Mode of Submission Use for What’s created in Blackboard Students submit to Channel for feedback WC07 Flexible assessment For use where, for a single assessment set up in RISIS, students are offered a choice of assessment routes, requiring separate Blackboard or Turnitin submission points. Weighted Column Blackboard or Turnitin as appropriate Blackboard / Turnitin

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Mode of Submission: Multipart submission

Electronic Management of Assessment

RISIS Mode of Submission Use for What’s created in Blackboard Students submit to Channel for feedback WC05 Multipart submission Group presentation / performance Weighted Column Turnitin or Blackboard as appropriate Dependent on tools used for each part of the assessment Where a single RISIS assessment has separate parts requiring separate submission points. These may be

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