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Critical Dates for TEL Systems

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If you know the dates of your Critical Activity on Blackboard or QMP until the end of August 2015, please forward them to TEL-Help@bristol.ac.uk

Please provide the following information:

* Course ID or name

* Date and time of activity

* Type of activity e.g. Submission, Exam

(For online assessment activity could you please include the following code – M for mock, A for assessment and E for final exam)

* Number of students sitting the exam/Submitting

* Room name or number where the activity will take place, along with a contact number (if applicable)

* Contact Name and phone number

This information is vital for the TEL Team to plan system maintenance and upgrade.

Blackboard unavailable – 12th November Noon – 17:00

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To ensure that we are providing the best possible service to our users, our colleagues in IT Services need to undertake some maintenance work on Blackboard.

Blackboard will not be available to users between noon and 17.00 on the 12th November, to allow this work to be completed.

If you have any questions, or critical activity (eg submission deadlines or tests requiring Blackboard) during this time, please email tel-help@bristol.ac.uk.

To help us schedule this type of work, we use the “critical dates” information provided by our users. If you have not done so already, please forward to the email address above the following information about critical activities you are running using Blackboard or QMP:

  • date of activity
  • time of activity
  • type of activity
  • course ID
  • number of students undertaking the activity
  • contact name and phone number.

Issues with feedback in Turnitin Grademark

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Some staff and/or students may have noticed issues with feedback provided in Turnitin Grademark over the past day or so. We have reported these to Turnitin and they have today responded as follows:
 “Some users have reported a display issue with the downloaded PDF format of their Originality and GradeMark reports. The text may be misaligned, and some highlights or GradeMark comments may be missing, also within GradeMark reports the voice comments are inaccessible possibly due to a save error. Our engineering team is currently investigating the issue, and any updates will be provided as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
 Until we hear back from Turnitin that the issues are fixed we suggest that:

1. Staff use only text feedback (not audio)
2. Students view their feedback online rather than on printout

 

New tool available for online marking

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A new tool for online marking is now available in Blackboard. The “inline grading” tool allows markers to annotate work directly in Blackboard, without having to download and upload files.

Blackboard’s 3 minute video tutorial shows how to use the tool.

If you would like to find out more about online marking or online submission please visit the TEL website or email us at tel-help@bristol.ac.uk.

Blackboard workshops for staff

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

  • Introduction to Blackboard for administrative and support staff
  • Introduction to Blackboard for Academic Staff (including Research Staff)
  • Effective course design

For further information and booking please see the “Training and events” section of the TEL website.

Questionmark Perception Groups

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Dear colleagues ,

This email is for Questionmark Perception administrators and anyone who manages student accounts and groups using Enterprise Manager.
For this coming academic year, we recommend that you use your existing group (s) where possible. If this is not possible, please email tel-help@bristol.ac.uk with the name of the new group along with the names of any colleagues who need access to this group, and we will create it for you. 
 
Renaming or editing groups is not recommended if you need to run reports against these groups with Reporting or Analytics. 
 
Please subscribe to the TEL blog to receive Questionmark updates and communication.
 
Kind regards
Roberta