Although the new version of Turnitin is being used for all assessments due after July 31st 2022, staff and students should still be able to access work submitted and marked using the previous version: students are still able to access submitted work by going to the Turnitin assignment in the…
The main way of collating video resources for a Blackboard course is to publish the videos to the relevant Channel. This makes the content accessible to all course members. See Publishing to a Channel However, as with videos stored in Stream, you will normally want to embed or link to…
What is a YuJa channel? YuJa channels are the main way of organising content for a specific Blackboard course. A channel is not a folder, but a way of assigning appropriate permissions in YuJa for the staff and students on a Blackboard course (similar to a course group in Stream)….
From November 2021 we have introduced a quota for files uploaded to Blackboard courses. Initially this applies only to new courses created as a blank shell, or from a School template. The new course quota is 5Gb. The vast majority of Blackboard courses are well below this size. Where courses…
Why do I need to do this? When a new course is created in Blackboard it is always set up as unavailable. In the Courses list it will be labelled (Private). Instructors and other staff can access an unavailable course, but students cannot. This is quite deliberate. It prevents students…
What is the Review Status tool? The Review Status tool allows you to add a button to a specific content item in a module, including folders. A student can manually click the button when they have viewed or completed it, for example an item with a document attached, a video…
Introduction Reusable Objects allow you to store in a central location (the Blackboard Content Collection) pieces of content which you regularly use on a variety of Blackboard courses. Moreover, you can update the Reusable Object in the Content Collection and the content will be updated in every course where it…
Blackboard toolbar updated from 5 November 2020 Wherever you have the option to edit text in Blackboard, you see essentially the same editing toolbar. From 5 November 2020 there will an updated version of this editor. New icons for old functions Embed Attach document, image, video and mashups Preview, Help…
Wherever you have the option to edit text in Blackboard, you see essentially the same Content Editor. The toolbar is fully responsive and will adapt to the screen size. Functions included in the toolbar are: Formatting Make text bold, italic, underlined or strikethrough. Align text…
LinkedIn Learning provides access to a wide range of online training materials. See the DTS page LinkedIn Learning for details of how to login and access these. Linking to LinkedIn Learning materials from Blackboard Currently, the best way to point your students to LinkedIn Learning courses is simply to create Weblinks in your…