As mentioned in a previous blog post, there are a few changes being introduced this week to the interface used when marking work submitted to a Blackboard Assignment. Please note – this change does not affect Turnitin assignments, only Blackboard assignments. The new Box marking interface will go live at 8 a.m. this Wednesday, 10th January. […]
Happy new year! If you missed Brighton University’s excellent online Burning of the Apps TEL showcase just before the festive break, you can access the videos of the 1 hour sessions here (or individually below): New Learning Spaces at the University of Brighton (video) From Lecture to Lego: […]
This information is relevant to staff involved in marking work online Over the next few weeks, many staff will be marking work which has been submitted via Blackboard or Turnitin. To avoid any issues, please consult our E-marking essentials page, which provides essential information for anyone marking coursework and returning feedback to students online. The page covers all aspects […]
What is changing? The Inline Grading features in Blackboard make use of a third party tool called Crocodoc. The company who own Crocodoc are moving to a new tool called Box, and all Blackboard institutions need to switch to this new interface by 15th January 2018. We will be making the transition to Box at […]
Colleagues will be aware that Module Evaluation is currently underway. Following the collection and distribution of student responses, Module Convenors are required to write a brief commentary on the module evaluation and upload this to the appropriate Blackboard course. For further detail on this, please see our Module Evaluation support page. To facilitate this, every […]
A showcase of the best of Brighton University’s current academic practice using apps, web applications and other technology to enhance teaching and learning. Join in online on Wednesday 20 December! From http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/burningapps/ Perhaps you participated in one of the many fine examples of the 12 Apps of Christmas. At the University of Brighton, we like to […]
It’s nearly that time of year again! As the festive season approaches, it’s time to get ‘appy with the 12 apps of Christmas – a fun and quick way to learn about some educational apps that could help enrich teaching and learning and help further engage students. There are a couple […]
Dr Alice Maucheline & Professor Julian Park (School of Agriculture Policy & Development) During December 2016, we had the chance to share our teaching and learning experiences here at the University of Reading with thousands of other educators around the world by providing a case study for a seasonal online course called ‘The 12 apps […]
This weekly online hour long #LTHEchat event, scheduled for this Wednesday 8-9pm, might be of interest: The next #LTHEchat takes place on Wednesday 11th October at 8pm BST and is led by Sue Watling @suewatling and Patrick Lynch @thebigparticle (University of Hull). The title is: “Warning! May or may not include technology”. From Sue Watling and Patrick […]
Blackboard are still working on a patch to fix the issue which has affected course menu links to Talis. In the meantime, Blackboard engineers have located all 2017-18 courses where the menu includes a link to a Talis reading list (these are the links which are currently broken), and made the links unavailable i.e. not visible […]
