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,…Continue Reading Students now get submission receipts for Blackboard Assignments
Changes to Blackboard colour scheme and design
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…Continue Reading Changes to Blackboard colour scheme and design
Blackboard Course Rollover is now complete
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…Continue Reading Blackboard Course Rollover is now complete
Teaching a brand new module next year? How to get access to the course in Blackboard
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…Continue Reading Teaching a brand new module next year? How to get access to the course in Blackboard
Blackboard course rollover: action required for 2016
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…Continue Reading Blackboard course rollover: action required for 2016
Blackboard course rollover: changes for 2016; advance notice of timetable and downtime
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…Continue Reading Blackboard course rollover: changes for 2016; advance notice of timetable and downtime
Which browser works best with Blackboard and Turnitin?
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…Continue Reading Which browser works best with Blackboard and Turnitin?
Uploading and embedding audio and video files into your Blackboard course
The TEL team generally recommend Google Chrome as the browser which provides the most satisfactory performance with Blackboard. During the last year, however, Google introduced changes which made it impossible…Continue Reading Uploading and embedding audio and video files into your Blackboard course
How to edit the due date on an electronic assignment
Having set up an electronic assignment on Blackboard, whether it’s a Blackboard or a Turnitin assignment, you may sometimes need to edit or amend its dates – its due date,…Continue Reading How to edit the due date on an electronic assignment
RESOLVED: Issue for students accessing feedback using My Grades on Turnitin Assignments: Error 2.6.8
NOW RESOLVED See update: Turnitin connector updated: student access problem now resolved . We have become aware of an issue that is affecting student access to feedback on a small number of Turnitin…Continue Reading RESOLVED: Issue for students accessing feedback using My Grades on Turnitin Assignments: Error 2.6.8