The Questionmark Perception Terminal Server needs to taken down briefly to have security updates applied to it. This work has been scheduled for Wednesday 20 June between 8 am and 9 am, although the actual downtime will only last for about ten minutes, at around 8.30 am. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this causes.
If you have any questions, please contact digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
Turnitin will be taking their services down for maintenance between 4 pm and 12 midnight on Tuesday July 10. To ensure that services remain stable, particularly during high submission periods, this maintenance will include several hardware updates and performance improvements. Users will be unable to submit and grade during this maintenance window, so please ensure that any submission deadlines are adjusted to fall outside of the window.
You can stay up to date with Turnitin system status by following @TurnitinStatus on Twitter.
This year, the Blackboard upgrade has been scheduled to take place between 7 pm on Sunday 22 July and midday on Monday 23 July. Blackboard will be unavailable during this time, so please do not schedule any activities requiring Blackboard during that period.
New Blackboard courses for 2018-19 units and programmes will become available to staff between 2 and 8 August.
Please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk if you have any questions.
We have received confirmation from the supplier that the problems experienced by students is now resolved. We have been monitoring the situation and can confirm that we have not seen any recurrence of this issues.
If you have any questions please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk
We have received reports that some students have been experiencing problems with playback from the Re/Play service. We are working closely with the supplier to rectify this as quickly as we can.
If you have any further questions please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk
The Digital Education Office is offering drop-ins for Academic or Professional staff who may have queries about using Blackboard or Turnitin for online submission, marking or feedback. This is also an opportunity for colleagues to swap tips and share Electronic Management of Assessment (EMA) Practice.
No need to book just turn up. For more information about EMA please visit our EMA Page
Dates of drop-ins:
Wednesday 23rd May, 1pm-2pm: 1.05, 30-32 Tyndalls Park Road
Wednesday 30th May, 1pm-2pm: 3.16, Senate House
Wednesday 6th June, 1pm-2pm: 1.58 Queens Building
Wednesday 13th June, 1pm-2pm: WS402, Chemistry Building
Wednesday 20th June, 1pm-2pm: LR2, 43 Woodland Road
Wednesday 27th June, 1pm-2pm: TR2 Biomedical Sciences Building, Southwell Street.
Within Blackboard there are 2 assignment types, Blackboard and Turnitin. These short videos show you how to submit assignments and access marks and feedback.
How to submit an assignment to Blackboard
How to submit Turnitin assignments to Blackboard
How to access marks and feedback through Blackboard
How to access marks and feedback through Turnitin
For problems or questions relating to submitting assignments or accessing marks and feedback students should contact their School Office in the first instance.
For problems or questions relating to submitting assignments or accessing marks and feedback students should contact their School Office in the first instance.
Video guide for markers: adding feedback through rubrics in Blackboard (3 mins)
Rubrics allow you to add feedback and/or marks against specific assessment criteria.