Course copying and the creation of new Blackboard courses took place on Saturday 9th July 2022. Colleagues in the DTS Teaching & Learning Technology team successfully carried out Blackboard Course Rollover…Continue Reading Course copying & creation of new Blackboard courses has taken plac…
Digital Accessibility: Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Thursday 19th May saw the 11th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) designed to “get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than one billion…Continue Reading Digital Accessibility: Global Accessibility Awareness Day
GAAD – 19 May 2022: How accessible are your T&L resources?
Thursday 19 May 2022 sees the 11th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) when “we get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than one…Continue Reading GAAD – 19 May 2022: How accessible are your T&L resources?
Preparing your Blackboard module(s) for the new year
*This post was sent to all teaching staff as a Bb-Users’ email in August 2021* To help you prepare for teaching in the new academic year and to set up…Continue Reading Preparing your Blackboard module(s) for the new year
Blackboard news round-up September 2021
Help finding your way around Blackboard – for staff and students A reminder that our staff help pages at https://sites.reading.ac.uk/tel-support/ contain a wealth of information about how to use Blackboard,…Continue Reading Blackboard news round-up September 2021
Course Rollover 2021 and Microsoft Stream videos – guidance for staff
Blackboard course rollover for 2021 takes place on Saturday 3rd July. Stream Groups will be set-up as a separate process and should be available to you no later than Monday…Continue Reading Course Rollover 2021 and Microsoft Stream videos – guidance for staff
Blackboard Course Rollover 2021
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 for 2021 is scheduled to…Continue Reading Blackboard Course Rollover 2021
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
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