On the 18th April at 9.00 am we will launch the “advanced receipting” feature for students submitting Blackboard assignments.* We will be monitoring the tool after launch. Please contact tel-help@bristol.ac.uk if you experience any issues. 

Following an assignment submission, students will receive an email confirmation. This receipt includes details on who submitted the work, the time of submission, the module title, the assignment title, and the name and size of the submitted file, as well as a link to our Help page. 

Students who submit an assignment after 9.00 am on the 18th April will receive the receipt. Those who submit before this time will not receive a receipt.

*Students submitting an assignment to Turnitin through Blackboard already receive a receipt. 

A copy of the email receipt is stored within Blackboard. (Instructions on how to access these receipts. A screenshot of an example receipt is shown below.

Some users may have experienced problems accessing Mediasite. This is now resolved. Do get in touch with the IT Service desk if you have any further problems. Many apologies for the inconvenience.

Some users are experiencing issues accessing Mediasite through Blackboard.  IT Services are working to resume normal service. We apologise for any inconvenience.

The Blackboard service is now back. There was a 10 minute outage at 3pm resulting form a server problem that affected several services including Blackboard. IT Services apologise for the inconvenience.

We apologise for the current interruption to the Blackboard service. IT Services are working on a resolution now.

The Blackboard service will be unavailable during 8.00am and 8.30am on Monday 30th November. This is due to an essential database memory upgrade to help improve performance. See the IT Services news item.  IT Services apologise for any inconvenience.

Many apologies for the issues some users experienced over the weekend. Some work IT Services were carrying out inadvertently resulted in users being directed to the Test version of the Blackboard server instead of live. This was noticed and fixed on Saturday afternoon. We are working to assess and correct any consequences.