Service announcements and essential information from the Digital Education Office
If you encounter an Access Denied error when you try to open a file or document in Blackboard or are prompted to re-enter your username and password, simply click the LOGOUT button (top right of the screen) and an automatic fix will be applied.
N.B. simply closing the browser down will NOT resolve this issue.
We have recently purchased the Blackboard Mobile Learn building block. Blackboard Mobile Learn makes the VLE accessible on mobile devices, without the need for interface or course redesign by staff. Students can browse Blackboard in an interface designed to be used on mobile devices and participate in activities, add multimedia to blogs and discussion boards, view grades and check for alerts and updates to indicate recently marked work or activity in a group project. Students will be able to browse reading lists and other information posted in Blackboard while in the library, prepare for seminars and group tutorials while on the bus or train and download and listen to podcasts and audio feedback on their way home.[1] The additional functionality of Blackboard Mobile Learn could support off campus activities such as field trips.
For a sneak preview of how Blackboard Mobile Learn looks see: http://tinyurl.com/3ecq5ta
Future updates on Blackboard Mobile Learn will be circulated to subscribers to our “BB Mobile” Category.
A quick way to remove all announcements from a course is to use the Bulk Delete function
See this video for a detailed description of the problem and how to solve it
If as an Instructor you cannot see a particular tool in the Course tools menu in the Control Panel, you may need to switch it on. An example might be the Self and peer assessment tool.
This can be done as follows:
We have currently disabled course statistics while we continue to investigate the problems with this functionality. Disabling tracking and statistics within courses will impact on instructor’s ability to generate course and item statistics and tracking data for individual or groups of users. We apologise for any disruption this may cause.
At present Blackboard course instructors still have the ability to enable tracking on individual items within a course but please be aware that the reports generated may not contain any data, or the data may not be accurate.
To batch enrol users, you need to create a csv file with course IDs in the first column, usernames in the second column, and code for user roles (e.g. “P” for instructor) in the third column (for students you can leave the third column blank).
To batch enrol users yourself, you must have access to the System Admin tab. If you do not, check to see if a colleague has System Admin access in Blackboard. If not, please email your csv file to digital-education@bristol.ac.uk, requesting a batch enrolment.
If you do have System Admin access, carry out the following steps:
Accessing feedback for Blackboard assignments (2 mins)
Accessing feedback for Turnitin assignments (2 mins)
Please note: students are automatically enrolled on SITS courses (units/programmes) based on data in SITS. They should be removed from the relevant unit in SITS to unenrol them from the corresponding course in Blackboard.
If you wish to unenrol users (e.g. from a non-SITS course) then:
1. Expand the Control panel menu
2. Click Users and groups
3. Click Users
4. Tick the box next to the user you wish to remove
5. Click Remove Users from Course
6. Click OK in the warning pop up box
1. Click on Control panel
2. Click Users and groups
3. Click Users