Turnitin have advised us that their services will be unavailable on the 4th January 2020 from 4pm – 10pm due to scheduled maintenance. Users will be unable to submit and grade during this window.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Category: Blackboard
Blackboard Mobile App Planned Maintenance/Outage 17th December 3:30 AM
Blackboard will be performing essential maintenance on the mobile app from 3:30AM on 17th December. The Blackboard app will be unavailable for around 5 hours during the maintenance; please access Blackboard using a web browser during this time.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Digital Education Office.
Winter workshops and webinars from the Digital Education Office
Places are available on Digital Education workshops and webinars before and after Christmas, including introductions to Blackboard, creating and managing online tests, and advanced use of the Grade Centre, as well as talks from AbilityNet on digital accessibility.
Turnitin service disruption: 5th December
Turnitin are currently experiencing an unexpected service disruption. During this time, users may not receive Similarity Reports. You can track Turnitin’s status here: https://turnitin.statuspage.io/
Blackboard maintenance, Monday 9th December 1 – 4am
Blackboard will be performing essential maintenance overnight on Monday 9th December. Blackboard will be unavailable for around 3 hours during the maintenance window which will run from 1 – 4am GMT. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Digital Education Office.
Turnitin issue resolved – Unable to submit assignments 13th November
Turnitin had reported they were experiencing issues with uploading submissions to Turnitin.
This issue was resolved at 6:40pm on the 13th November. Paper processing times may take longer then usual as service gets back to normal.
Turnitin service disruption 13th November 4:30pm
Turnitin have reported that they have been experiencing issues with uploading submissions. Submissions may not upload, or take longer then expected to upload. Their engineers have identified the issue, and are working towards a resolution. You can track Turnitin’s status here: https://turnitin.statuspage.io/
Winter workshops and webinars from the Digital Education Office
Places are available on Digital Education workshops and webinars before and after Christmas, including introductions to Blackboard, creating and managing online tests, and advanced use of the Grade Centre, as well as talks from AbilityNet on digital accessibility. We are also running a series of EMA drop-in clinics around the University.
Introduction to creating and managing tests in Blackboard Webinar, 11th December 14:00-14:45
If you are interested in using Blackboard for online tests come and join our webinar on 11th December 14:00-14:45. We will look at how to create question pools, different types of questions and how to deploy tests in your course. Sign up here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-creating-and-managing-tests-in-blackboard-tickets-80828358797
Places available on Blackboard Basics Webinar for staff – 7th November 15:00-15:30
Places are available on the Blackboard Basics Webinar for staff on Thursday 7th November 15:00-15:30.
For more information and booking see Digital Education Office Events