This year, the Re/Play upgrade has been scheduled to take place between 9am and 1pm on Monday 16th July. Re/Play will be unavailable during this time, so please do not schedule any activities requiring Re/Play during that period.
Please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk if you have any questions.
Blackboard will be performing server maintenance between 11 pm on Thursday 28 June and 5 am on Friday 29 June. During this maintenance window there will be a short period of downtime, which Blackboard will endeavour to keep as brief as possible. Please be aware of this and plan your Blackboard activities accordingly.
The Questionmark Perception Terminal Server needs to taken down briefly to have security updates applied to it. This work has been scheduled for Wednesday 20 June between 8 am and 9 am, although the actual downtime will only last for about ten minutes, at around 8.30 am. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this causes.
If you have any questions, please contact digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
Turnitin will be taking their services down for maintenance between 4 pm and 12 midnight on Tuesday July 10. To ensure that services remain stable, particularly during high submission periods, this maintenance will include several hardware updates and performance improvements. Users will be unable to submit and grade during this maintenance window, so please ensure that any submission deadlines are adjusted to fall outside of the window.
You can stay up to date with Turnitin system status by following @TurnitinStatus on Twitter.
This year, the Blackboard upgrade has been scheduled to take place between 7 pm on Sunday 22 July and midday on Monday 23 July. Blackboard will be unavailable during this time, so please do not schedule any activities requiring Blackboard during that period.
New Blackboard courses for 2018-19 units and programmes will become available to staff between 2 and 8 August.
Please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk if you have any questions.
We have received confirmation from the supplier that the problems experienced by students is now resolved. We have been monitoring the situation and can confirm that we have not seen any recurrence of this issues.
If you have any questions please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk
We have received reports that some students have been experiencing problems with playback from the Re/Play service. We are working closely with the supplier to rectify this as quickly as we can.
If you have any further questions please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk
The Digital Education Office is offering drop-ins for Academic or Professional staff who may have queries about using Blackboard or Turnitin for online submission, marking or feedback. This is also an opportunity for colleagues to swap tips and share Electronic Management of Assessment (EMA) Practice.
No need to book just turn up. For more information about EMA please visit our EMA Page
Dates of drop-ins:
Wednesday 23rd May, 1pm-2pm: 1.05, 30-32 Tyndalls Park Road
Wednesday 30th May, 1pm-2pm: 3.16, Senate House
Wednesday 6th June, 1pm-2pm: 1.58 Queens Building
Wednesday 13th June, 1pm-2pm: WS402, Chemistry Building
Wednesday 20th June, 1pm-2pm: LR2, 43 Woodland Road
Wednesday 27th June, 1pm-2pm: TR2 Biomedical Sciences Building, Southwell Street.
It services have informed us that the My Bristol portal is now available and Blackboard can now be accessed through the links on the page.
My Bristol is temporarily unavailable and consequently access to Blackboard via the portal is also down. Blackboard itself is still available and can be accessed using the direct web link here: https://www.ole.bris.ac.uk
IT services are currently working to restore access to the portal and updates are available here: http://itstatus.bristol.ac.uk/