This page provides help and guidance for administrative staff supporting Schools’ curriculum delivery in Blackboard.

Programmes Managers and Senior Programme Administrators in Support Centres are assigned certain admin roles in Blackboard for the School which they support, and these permissions can be extended to other staff on request.

Course and user management

Guides for staff with the ‘Senior Programme Administrator‘ and ‘Programme Administrator’ permissions:

• Managing Blackboard courses (Find courses and managing course settings)
• Managing Blackboard course enrolments
• Removing staff and students from Blackboard courses
• How to Batch Enrol users (with tips for identifying the correct courses in Blackboard, and copying data to Excel)

See also our staff user guides on the Getting Started page of the site e.g.

• Making a course available
• Customising a course menu
• Adding the ‘My Grades’ tool as a menu item to a course

 

Updating courses for the new academic year

• Course Rollover

 

Users and Groups

• Enrolling participants on your Course
• Course roles in Blackboard
• Changing the Role of a user on a Course
• Creating and managing Groups (link to the Blackboard Help site)
• Importing Group members from an Excel list
• Generate a class list from RISIS displaying student IT usernames

 

How and when are students enrolled on courses? For an explanation see this interactive model.

Access to Blackboard for non-UoR staff:

• External Examiners
• A guide on the non-UoR staff role in Blackboard

 

Assessment in Blackboard

See the EMA Help pages of this blog for guidance on

• Turnitin
• Blackboard Assignments
• Grade Centre

 

Blackboard Portal Administration

School Portals came to an end in August 2021 with the instalation of Blackboard Ultra base navigation.

The information to student on Portals is now diseminated via Organisations for specific student groups.

Blackboard Fileshare (Content Collection)

The Blackboard Fileshare is a content management system which allows you to upload files to a central location, and make them accessible to students on multiple courses, or via your School’s portal tab.

Fileshare guide for admins

Supporting Students with Blackboard/Turnitin

This guide outlines how student-facing staff in the Support Centres can assist students with Blackboard and Turnitin queries; either by providing the answer directly, by giving advice, or by directing students to the relevant support available.

Guide for Student-facing staff