This post outlines some key information for setting up assignment submissions for the coming academic year, including how to’s, checklists and essential advice. Set up new assignment submissions points and deploy Tests Following changes to the annual course rollover process, assignment submission points and Grade Centre settings are no longer being […]
Blackboard Assignment tool – Submission receipts Students will now receive an email receipt to their University email address when they submit work to the Blackboard Assignment tool. This ensures parity of experience for students, who already receive a receipt if they submit to Turnitin and gives re-assurance to students that they have submitted their work. Further […]
If you subscribe to the Library News blog you will have seen a recent post Presenting BoB – our new resource for TV & radio: Our newest e-resource is Box of Broadcasts (BoB) – BoB is a resource that allows you to record and view TV and radio programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels.Also available is an archive of […]
A new help site has been developed for students to support them in their use of Blackboard and Turnitin! The site covers everything from answers to students’ frequently asked questions to essential advice on how to submit assignments online. Students can now access a clean and simple help site when they click on the ‘Support for Students’ tab within Blackboard. As […]
There will be some temporary limitation in some of the support services that the TEL team are able to give in 2016-2017. We have also made changes to streamline the way staff access support and advice. Details of these arrangements are as follows: Do you need help with Blackboard and Turnitin queries and trouble-shooting? 1. […]
Welcome Week 2016 is now less than a week away! It’s an ideal opportunity to introduce your new students to Blackboard and show them how to submit assignments online and where to find self-help materials. You’ll be pleased to hear that the TEL team have produced some customisable PowerPoint resources to help you to do this. Visit Blackboard’s […]
In the past, when students have submitted work to the Blackboard Assignment tool they did not receive a receipt. This was a source of dissatisfaction for both staff and students, as work submitted via the Turnitin tool does generate a receipt, emailed to their University email address. This issue has now been addressed – the University has paid […]
The Blackboard upgrade originally scheduled for Bank Holiday Monday has been postponed until later in the academic year. However we have applied some changes to the colour scheme and styles in use on our Blackboard system. For most users the most noticeable change will be that – in response to user comments, and after consultation with […]
As part of Turnitin’s series of webcasts on topics associated with their product, Academics from Australia will be presenting on how they have used Turnitin as tool to improve students’ academic writing skills. The webinar will look at how initiatives to use Turnitin as an educational tool and the development of resources to support students in their use […]
Blackboard Course Rollover for 2016-17 is now complete. All course copying has taken place for courses which ran in Blackboard in 2015-16 and are scheduled in RISIS for 2016-17 Shared and non-RISIS courses, where this was requested by staff. In addition, for 2016-17 courses created through the rollover process staff enrolments (Instructors and Teaching Assistants) […]
