In order to better support markers who mark offline, the Digital Education Office has been working with Blackboard on development of a tool which allows Instructors to:

1. batch download assignments, including by group (eg if you are marking a subset of students within a unit)
2. mark offline eg annotating an assignment or completing a separate feedback sheet in Word
3. batch upload marks and feedback files.

This video  provides an overview of how the tool works.

If you would be interested in finding out more or trying the tool please contact Roger Gardner, Digital Education Development Manager: roger.gardner@bristol.ac.uk 

Blackboard are performing scheduled maintenance on their data servers on Friday, March 1st, 2019 between 2:00 am and 6:00 am, which will result in some service interruption during this time.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

We have been made aware that there is an error in some timetabling data that means that lectures cannot be identified as being automatically scheduled by Re/Play and so are not being recorded.  The timetabling team are looking into the matter as a priority and we will update the blog with further information.

In the mean time we would advise lecturers to use the ad-hoc recorder to record their sessions. Please see our Re/Play organisation for further information on using the app, there should also be instructions in lecture theatres.

As an Instructor, if under “My Courses” on your Blackboard home page  you see “not currently available” or “unavailable” after the course name, this means the course is unavailable to students. Instructors can still access and edit the course.

There are two ways to make your courses available to students

• You can use the Quick Tools on your Blackboard Home page. Click Course Availability and turn the On/Off button next to the course to the required state.

OR

• Click on the course
• Under Control Panel, click on Customisation
• Click on Properties
• In section 3, Set availability, select Yes
• Click Submit

If you have any problems or queries please contact Digital-Education@bristol.ac.uk

Blackboard will performing infrastructure maintenance between 1 am and 5 am on Friday 25 January. You should therefore expect a service interruption to Blackboard during this maintenance window.

Thank you in advance for your understanding.

We are planning a minor update to Blackboard between 9 pm on Sunday 16 December and 9 am on Monday 17 December. We will confirm the maintenance following further testing of the update. If we can proceed with the work, there will be unavailability over this period and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.