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Critical Dates

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We are currently collecting information on critical activities for Blackboard and QuestionMark Perception for this coming academic year. Critical activities are those for which it is essential that TEL systems such as Blackboard or QMP are available, such as assignment submissions or online exams.

Critical activity information is very important as it is used to schedule downtime for essential maintenance to Blackboard, QMP and other systems with the least disruption to you and your students. The information also helps us and IT Services to more effectively support students and staff in the event of an unexpected disruption to Blackboard, QMP, Turnitin or related services (such as MyBristol). 

Please click this link http://tinyurl.com/zjb8szf and follow the instructions outlined in the form to send us the required information.

Thank you very much

TEL team

Training available on Blackboard and related topics

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There are still places on our staff workshops for the new academic year:
Course design – 13 September, 27 September, 11 October
Intro to Blackboard (academic and research staff) – 12 October, 10 January
Intro to Blackboard (admin and support staff) – 6 October, 19 January
Materials design – 14 September, 28 September, 11 October
Media in teaching – 21 September, 5 October, 18 January
Question design – 14 October

Full details and booking: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/tel/noticeboard/

If there isn’t a workshop scheduled that meets your needs or if you would like tailored training please get in touch at tel-help@bristol.ac.uk

New look for Blackboard

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Subject to final testing we are planning to change the look of Blackboard to bring it in line with other University websites and systems. You will notice a cleaner feel to the home screen and a new colour scheme, however the layout of your home page will remain the same.

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Hub Courses 2016/17

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We have now completed the recreation of Hub courses for the new academic year. Thank you for the information you sent through, it helped make the process smoother at our end. Please could you check the hub courses are set up as expected and carry out your usual maintenance. Check staff and student enrolment and let us know if you spot any issues.
We would appreciate you communicating how Hubs are working to all staff and students, so they know where to find specific resources eg: where to find eReserves, Mediasite etc.
We had planned to set up a parent and merged child style course system, but the complexity of hub courses has stopped this approach. Instead we have kept the Hubs as they were last year, as stand alone courses. This allows for access to Mediasite, submission points and ereserves.
When searching for a unit code in Blackboard you should now see both the SITS generated course and the Hub. The new hubs are using the child unit codes as their Blackboard code to aid searching for them

Places available on TEL workshops

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Places are available on TEL workshops for staff in the New Year .  These include:

  • Effective course design
  • Introduction to Blackboard for administrative and support staff
  • Introduction to Blackboard for academic staff (including research staff)
  • Media in teaching
  • TEL essentials

For further information and booking please see the TELED website.

If there is not a workshop scheduled that meets your needs or if you would like tailored training e.g. for your School please contact tel-help@bristol.ac.uk

Places still available for “TEL essentials” workshops in November and December

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Places are still available for the “TEL essentials” workshops in November and December.  This course is for teaching staff and aims to provide you with an overview of technology enhanced learning (TEL) and assessment. It provides some principles and strategies underpinning successful use of TEL, focussing particularly on a blended context where students have a mixture of online and face-to-face learning experiences. During the course activities you will also be able to try out a range of technologies.

For further information and booking please see the Staff Development website.

Places available on TEL workshops for staff

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Places are available on TEL workshops for staff.  These include:

  • Media in teaching
  • Effective course design
  • TEL essentials
  • Introduction to Blackboard for administrative and support staff
  • Introduction to Blackboard for academic staff (including research staff)
  • Questionmark Perception Enterprise Manager

For further information and booking please see the TEL website.

If there is not a workshop scheduled that meets your needs or if you would like tailored training e.g. for your School please contact tel-help@bristol.ac.uk

Turnitin “Email Non-Submitters” link should not be used

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A new link has been automatically added to Turnitin assignment inboxes in Blackboard, giving Instructors the option to “Email Non-Submitters”. Unfortunately, this feature does not currently work with all versions of the Blackboard/Turnitin integration – including the one used at the University of Bristol. Turnitin’s engineering team is planning to remove the link, where it doesn’t work, in the future. In the meantime, instructors should ignore it. Turnitin apologize for any inconvenience.

Turnitin service alert 20 July 2015

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Turnitin have issued the following announcement about an issue users may have encountered on the 18th, 19th and 20th July, 2015: 

“Some users may have encountered an issue with the Turnitin and TurnitinUK services on the 18th, 19th and 20th of July, 2015.
Images and buttons within the Turnitin service, including the assignment submission page within Turnitin may not have loaded correctly.
This issue may have prevented student users from being able to submit work.
The issue was resolved on the 20th of July, 2015 at 01.15 PST. We apologize for any inconvenience that may have been caused.”

Further information about Turnitin Service status is at:

http://www.turnitinuk.com/en_gb/support/system-status