“For people without disabilities, technology makes things easier. For people with disabilities, technology makes things possible.” (IBM Training Manual) What is GAAD? This Thursday (21st May) is the ninth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), an annual opportunity to champion Accessibility and take time to consider how we can make changes to our practice to ensure people […]
We are pleased to announce that this summer we will be moving our Blackboard system to a new hosting platform: Blackboard SaaS. SaaS stands for ‘Software as a Service’, and the switch means that our Blackboard system will be hosted in the Cloud. Many other UK universities have moved to SaaS over the last few […]
When I last wrote, we were just 72 hours in to our new ‘normal’ working arrangements. We’re now into the summer term and we’ve had some time to further adjust and reflect on how things have been progressing since then. I think it’s fair to say that the last few weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind […]
Covid-19: Adjusting to a new ‘normal’ – the TEL team’s experience so far… Just like millions of people across the country, and indeed the world, members of the University’s Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team are having to adjust to new working practices. As we isolate ourselves to help slow the spread of the […]
On 6-8 January 2020, Durham University hosted its 20th annual Blackboard User’s Conference. In line with the recent changes in regulations governing the accessibility of websites and apps, this year’s event was themed ‘Access All Areas’. A small number of UoR TEL and Digital Technology Services (DTS) staff attended the conference which has become a […]
Turnitin maintenance Saturday 4 January 2020 from: 16:00 GMT to: 22:00 GMT Turnitin will be unavailable during this time – students will not be able to submit, and staff will not be able to mark work. Further information: https://turnitin.statuspage.io Blackboard Upgrade Sunday 5 – Monday 6 January 2020 from: 12:15 GMT Sunday 05 January to: […]
We thought we’d alert you to the ALT Online Winter Conference taking place this Wednesday and Thursday (11/12 December). ALT is the Association for Learning Technology and this is their 6th online conference showcasing interesting learning technology work across the FE and HE sectors. It’s free to attend – just register here and dip in and […]
The TEL website has moved to a brand new site with reorganised and revised content. The move makes it easier for you to find everything you need about Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) in one place. The site replaces our previous TEL Blog and TEL pages on the original CQSD site. You can use the new […]
Blackboard has been successfully upgraded, and you can now log in again. For those of you who like to know such things, we are now on Blackboard 9.1, Q2 2019 release, Cumulative Update 2. You will notice little change in the new release, but it incorporates over 200 bug fixes, and there are additional behind-the-scenes changes […]
UPDATE: The issue has now been resolved. Original Post: At the moment when accessing assignments clicking on the submission title will result in a 404 error. To work around this please click on the Pencil “Grade” icon or on the Similarity Score Percentage.
