Where you are offering a completely new module, the course rollover process does not apply, since there’s no existing Blackboard content to copy. Any modules scheduled for 2016-17 in RISIS will automatically have Blackboard courses created in early August. Staff teaching those new modules will need to place a request to be enrolled on the relevant Blackboard courses. […]
Course Rollover is the annual process whereby Blackboard courses from the current academic year are copied for use in the next academic year. Course Rollover is being streamlined this year, so that all of the course copying is carried out over two consecutive weekends: Standard courses which are scheduled in RISIS to run in 2016-17 […]
When staff use Turnitin GradeMark to mark student work, the grades entered in GradeMark should automatically transfer to the Blackboard Grade Centre (for assignments with Anonymous Marking, this should happen once the Post Date has been reached). Sometimes this synchronisation does not happen automatically, and you have to use the Sync Grades tool – see Use Sync Grades […]
We have now updated our guide on course roles in Blackboard to cover what various roles can and can’t do in more detail. Different course roles have different levels of access to Blackboard areas and tools, so it is important to allocate the most suitable roles to those involved in teaching or managing a module. It […]
Have you ever wondered how if you could copy or move content items within a Blackboard course or between courses? The answer is YES and it is straight forward. Use the Copy/Move action and then select the destination. Our step-by-step guide shows how you can copy or move an individual content item or an entire content folder, and […]
Course rollover is the annual process whereby Blackboard courses from the current academic year are copied for use in the next academic year. For 2016, there are two important changes: Courses will be copied in two batches, over the weekends of 30th – 31st July and 6th – 7th August. Blackboard will be unavailable to users while this work is […]
This advice is only relevant to the Blackboard assignment tool feature called ‘Delegated Marking’. Are you thinking about using delegated marking? Do you have an assignment to mark where delegated marking has been set up? The following advice should help you avoid issues that have arisen, based on recent queries we have received.
Update: This issue has now been resolved We have had a couple of cases recently where lecturers have changed the Post Date on a Turnitin assignment, and the student grades entered in Turnitin have then disappeared. Although the marks were not irretrievably lost, this inevitably causes some anguish, and leads to a delay in the availability of […]
Invited external speaker Sue Beckingham from Sheffield Hallam University delivered a workshop for academics at Reading on how to use social media to develop an academic online presence. This staff development session provided an opportunity for academics to consider how social media can be used in a scholarly context and examples of how to apply social media […]
This is an update on an earlier blog post from November 2015. If you put this question to any member of the CQSD TEL team – or, indeed, most learning technologists around the country – the answer you will get is “Google Chrome”. That browser seems to be least troublesome when running Blackboard and Turnitin (as well as for more general web use), and […]
