It is important to be in control of your online interactive sessions with students. The following advice explains how to set meeting options to ensure students join Teams Meetings with the role of ‘attendee’ and how you can manage attendees…Continue Reading Take control! Managing participants in Teams Meetings
Advice re common queries during w/c 28 Sept 2020
If you have a TEL query, please contact TEL via the DTS Service Desk: email dts@reading.ac.uk OR log a ticket on the DTS Self-Service Portal. The following info is based on common queries and issues that have arisen during the last week and is…Continue Reading Advice re common queries during w/c 28 Sept 2020
Teams Meeting PowerPoint sharing workarounds
This issue has now been fixed Some users may be experiencing an issue with the slide order when running a PowerPoint presentation in Teams Meetings using the Teams desktop app. When moving between slides, the slides appear in the wrong order on the screen. …Continue Reading Teams Meeting PowerPoint sharing workarounds
MS Stream video permissions & interactive online sessions
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…Continue Reading MS Stream video permissions & interactive online sessions
Blackboard-Stream integration goes live this week
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…Continue Reading Blackboard-Stream integration goes live this week
Blackboard Annotate – new marking tool for Blackboard Assignments
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…Continue Reading Blackboard Annotate – new marking tool for Blackboard Assignments
MS Stream update
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…Continue Reading MS Stream update
Blackboard Annotate Quick Start FAQs
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…Continue Reading Blackboard Annotate Quick Start FAQs
Blackboard upgrade completed
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…Continue Reading Blackboard upgrade completed
Blackboard SaaS – what to expect
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…Continue Reading Blackboard SaaS – what to expect