In order to access marked student work, External Examiners need to be enrolled onto the relevant Blackboard modules. In addition, it is recommended that Departments make use of a Blackboard organisation to provide External Examiners with essential information, and as a way of sharing draft exam papers. Typically, Departments have one organisation for UG programmes […]
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The School Leader role in Blackboard is an administrator role designed for SDTLs, DDTLs, SDATs and other senior School staff, to enable you quickly and easily to access any course in your School or Department. Accessing courses Once assigned the role, you will see the Admin option on the Blackboard Menu. Navigate to this tab
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See DTS information regarding Class Notebook before committing to use. The information in this article is correct at the time of writing. TEL can provide initial orientation but not ongoing support for Microsoft products (please contact DTS for ongoing queries). OneNote and Class Notebook are a Microsoft Office application that can be used for collaborative
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What is Microsoft Forms? Microsoft Forms is an online survey/quizzing platform that is available via Office 365 apps. It can be used for student polling, word clouds, Q&A, Likert ratings, MCQs.. there is a wide range of question types. These questions can be deployed within or outside of scheduled teaching. For example, students can access
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Is Padlet digitally accessible? What practices should I follow when creating a padlet? Padlet is basically compatible with screen-reader software (such as Apple VoiceOver); for example, posts can be read out aloud and new posts can be created using a shortcut. However, screen-reader software users (and those with impaired vision) rely on padlet creators to
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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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This page provides information for university staff who work with External Examiners. It explains how to make arrangements for them to access IT resources, including how to apply for an an IT account and how to arrange their access to Blackboard. How to arrange an IT account External Examiners can be given a University external user
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Introduction If you need to give an external examiner access to your Blackboard course, there is a custom role which you can use to grant access to course materials, and to student work submitted to Blackboard and/or Turnitin. A summary of what the role can and can’t do This is a Course Role – like
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