Some important advice to help you avoid common pitfalls when: 1) using MS Stream for sharing videos in Blackboard and 2) setting up your online interactive sessions. MS Stream Things to be aware of when adding Stream video permissions To ensure your students can view your screencasts in Stream, it’s essential to make sure you’ve shared your videos with the Stream Group for your […]
What does the integration do? The integration will run every night, to synchronise permissions between your Blackboard course and the relevant Stream Group. Back in July, a Microsoft Stream content area was added to all course menus, for modules running in 2020/21 (courses where the Blackboard course ID ends in 20-1MOD). This area is used […]
Blackboard Assignments have a new in-line marking tool called Blackboard Annotate which has replaced the older Box in-line marking interface. All previous marking annotations will now appear in the new marking window. Blackboard Annotate is similar to the previous marking interface, but offers improvements for providing different types of marking and feedback: Freehand drawing and shape […]
In preparation for teaching in the Autumn term, we’re pleased to announce the release of a new integration feature between Blackboard and Microsoft Stream. Stream is the platform to use for all video content for the coming academic year. It’s similar to having a YouTube tool for the University and allows you to upload, share […]
what do I need to know before i start using blackboard annotate? Before using the Bb Annotate marking interface, take a moment to familiarise yourself with the ‘What is Blackboard Annotate’ TEL Support article and some common queries below: Fig 1: The Blackboard Annotate toolbar. What will happen to my previous annotations? All […]
The migration of our VLE to Blackboard SaaS (Software as a Service) is now complete. You can can log in at www.bb.reading.ac.uk and start using the system. We’ve talked about the advantages of Saas in an earlier post on this blog, and also described some of the changes that would be coming. This blog post provides […]
As previously reported on this blog, we will be moving our Blackboard system to a cloud-based SaaS (Software as a Service) platform over the first weekend in August. We are now in a position to give further details. Timescale The system will be unavailable from 20:00 BST on Friday 31 July for the whole of Saturday […]
“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 […]
