Service announcements and essential information from the Digital Education Office
Questionmark will be carrying out scheduled maintenance on Saturday 18 May between 09:00 and 15:00.
The purpose of the maintenance is to deploy system updates to ensure the ongoing reliability, security and up time of the platform.
During this time users may experience service disruption. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
If you have any questions, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk
As part of the DEO’s work to future-proof and improve the Re/Play service, we will be working with IT Services from 11 am on 12 April to implement an improved data service. This work will switch the data provision from legacy to current systems and introduce some improvements in the way staff are associated with recordings.
There should be no impact on the service and we will be monitoring activity prior to and during the start of term.
If you have any questions, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
On Saturday 20 April, between 15:00 – 20:00 BST, Turnitin will be performing maintenance on their system. During this small window of time, Turnitin will be unavailable. You can stay up to date with the Turnitin system status on the Turnitin status page. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Questionmark will be carrying out scheduled maintenance on Saturday 20 April between 09:00 and 15:00.
The purpose of the maintenance is to deploy system updates to ensure the ongoing reliability, security and up time of the platform.
During this time users may experience service disruption. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
If you have any questions, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk
On Saturday 16 March, between 14:00 – 18:00 GMT, Turnitin will be performing maintenance on their system. During this small window of time, Turnitin will be unavailable. You can stay up to date with the Turnitin system status on the Turnitin status page. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Questionmark will be carrying out scheduled maintenance on Saturday 16 March between 09:00 and 15:00.
The purpose of the maintenance is to deploy system updates to ensure the ongoing reliability, security and up time of the platform.
During this time users may experience service disruption. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
If you have any questions, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk
The issue with Blackboard Assist has been rectified and the service is now functioning correctly.
If you have any questions, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
We are aware that the Blackboard menu item “Assist” is currently unavailable, we are working with Blackboard to rectify this issue as quickly as possible.
If you have any questions, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
Padlet has recently introduced a number of new features that can be used in Teaching and Learning. We have noted some below that could be of particular interest:
Breakout links allow you to share access to only one section of your Padlet, meaning that each group can see only their own section. This can be done in the Share panel – see our Padlet guide for further information.
Posts can now be sorted by date, reaction score, alphabetically, randomly or manually. This is done in the ‘Layout’ section of the Settings.
Padlet now has the ability to add AI-generated images to a Padlet, helping to boost creativity and act as an icebreaker. This can be found on the post composer. 
Basic polls are now available within Padlet. The results will be available to all users after voting. Polls can be combined with the slideshow feature. This can be done by opening the post composer and selecting the Poll option from the content picker.
Submission request links ask a visitor to submit a post before they are able to view the rest of the Padlet. This is done via the Submission request link on the Share panel. Learn more about this on Padlet’s blog.
You can now add custom text fields into the post composer so that visitors will see them when they are adding posts. This can help ensure that they fully understand how a question should be answered, or provide useful prompts to help them reflect. See our Padlet guide for further information on this.
To view Padlet’s full list of updates, visit their blog or click the ‘announcements’ feature on the home page of Padlet.
If you have any further queries about using Padlet, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
Turnitin have informed us that their services will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Saturday 27 January 2024 from 16:30 to 20:30. During this maintenance window users will be unable to submit or mark papers, or view marks, feedback and similarity reports.
Further information is available on the Turnitin status page.