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Using the Academic Liaison Librarian and Careers Consultant roles in Blackboard

Introduction Academic Liaison Librarians and Careers Consultants are assigned admin privileges in Blackboard, providing you with the ability to self-enrol on courses within the School or Department with which you work. The privileges have been granted in order that you can view and, if necessary, create course content advise module staff on copyright compliance in […]

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Blackboard Learn Ultra Navigation

Blackboard Learn Ultra, Getting Started

Blackboard Learn Ultra navigation provides a modern, responsive and interactive interface, enabling users to get updates from their courses, and to easily access courses and organisations. TEL Tips The Home page has links to sources of help, and is also where we’ll alert you to new features in Blackboard, or when systems are undergoing maintenance

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Blackboard Learn Ultra Notifications

Blackboard Learn Ultra, Getting Started

Personalise your notification settings You can control the notifications you receive from Blackboard, whether in the Activity Stream inside Blackboard, via email, or via the mobile app. We strongly encourage you, and your students, to personalise your notifications to suit your individual preferences. You can do this either by clicking on the settings icon in

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Blackboard Learn: The Calendar

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As an Instructor, you can create Calendar events for your course, which will then display to your students. Most course items with an associated date will appear in the Calendar, however scheduled Collaborate sessions do not appear. Students should be advised not to rely on their Blackboard Calendar as there may be inaccuracies. For example,

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Log in to Blackboard Learn Ultra

Blackboard Learn Ultra, Getting Started

Quick steps – how to sign in? Forgotten password or login details? Please go to “Reset your password” page for guidance, or send an email to dts@reading.ac.uk for help. Detailed guide with screenshots below Step 1. To log in, go to https://www.bb.reading.ac.uk/ and click on the “Sign in with Microsoft“ button. Step 2. Enter your

Programme Administrator access to Blackboard courses

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As a Programme Administrator you can be granted a Blackboard system admin role, at either School or Department level, which allows you to search for, view, and enrol yourself onto any courses and organisations in that School or Department. The same role is suitable for Senior Programme Administrators, Programmes Managers and Support Centre Managers. This

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Using Blackboard for Programme delivery

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Introduction For the most part teaching, learning and assessment takes place at module level, and Blackboard reflects that. However Blackboard also allows you to provide students with information at a Programme level. This could include general information relevant to all students on a Programme Programme Handbooks details of Module options for the coming year information

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Blackboard course codes explained

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Introduction The move to Semesters necessitates some changes in Blackboard course names and codes so you know which course you are looking at – primarily the need to show in which semester a module runs. Course names and codes in Blackboard are based on information in RISIS. Course codes are constructed using: What is an

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Blackboard: integrating with third party tools

Blackboard Learn Ultra, Third Party Tools

Introduction Blackboard is able to integrate with a wide range of other web tools Turnitin is the most widely used of these integrations. Others include Gradescope and Talis. There are also integrations with certain subject-specific tools such as Mobius (Maths) or to web-based content licensed by Schools from commercial publishers. What happens when I need a

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

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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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