This weekend’s upgrade has now completed. You can log in again as normal, to access both Blackboard and Turnitin. The upgrade was carried out primarily to enable RISIS-Blackboard integration to take place later in the academic year, but it also brings a number of bug fixes, and makes available a few new features: Blackboard Assignments […]
Staff from the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team and Electronic Management of Assessment (EMA) programme enjoyed meeting our new students at Welcome Week’s Academic Success Fair. We had some great discussions with students about Blackboard (our Virtual Learning Environment, VLE), submitting work and accessing marks and feedback online. It was interesting to hear about students’ […]
As we start a new academic year, here’ s a summary of changes that have taken place over the summer. Blackboard redesign You can’t fail to have noticed that Blackboard has a crisp new look. The redesign was informed by feedback received from student and staff focus groups held in the Spring term. As well […]
Blackboard will look a little different from Friday morning (31 August), and there are a couple of things you will need to do before logging in for the first time. In response to staff and student feedback, we’ve been working to improve Blackboard’s look, feel, accessibility and the experience of our staff and students when […]
Blackboard will look a little different from Friday morning (31 August), and there are a couple of things you will need to do before logging in for the first time. As you may remember from previous communications, we’ve been working, in response to staff and student feedback, to improve Blackboard’s look, feel, accessibility, responsiveness and the […]
There is currently a known issue with Blackboard Learn where users using small screens, ones set to a low resolution or users on mobile devices will not be able to navigate Blackboard Learn as the top level tabs will not render properly. We are aware of the issue and are looking into this. If […]
We are now into the 2018-19 academic year, and from Monday any 2018-19 course enrolments already registered in RISIS will start to flow into Blackboard. Module Convenors on Part 2 and 3 modules: if you want your students to be able to access your Blackboard course, simply make your course available. You’ll also want to email them […]
Blackboard has been upgraded to the latest version – for those of you who like to know such things, we are now running Blackboard 9.1 Q2 2018 Cumulative Update 2. New features Blackboard Tests: Students are now able to clear their selection on a Multiple-Choice question. This is useful in a test where negative scoring is […]
Annual course rollover took place on Saturday 30th June, with work continuing on related tasks throughout July. Many thanks to our colleagues in the IT TEL/AV team who are principally responsible for ensuring that rollover is carried out successfully. Blackboard courses have now been created for all 2018-19 modules and programmes which are scheduled in RISIS, and […]
Updated 20th July – further updates to follow Annual course rollover took place on Saturday 30th June, with work continuing on related tasks throughout the following weeks. Many thanks to our colleagues in the IT TEL/AV team who gave up their Saturday to carry out the rollover process (as well as spending many hours in preparation and […]
