Turnitin Assignment Copy feedback release date should be set after the due date

Posted on by digitaleducation

Recently, Turnitin introduced a new functionality called Assignment Copy, which allows instructors to copy assignment setups for re-use. When using this feature, instructors should be careful when setting their assignment dates to ensure that the due date does not fall after the feedback release date. If a due date is set to after the feedback release date, students will gain access to their marks and feedback as soon as these are created.

If you have any queries about using this feature, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.

 

Questionmark OnDemand Scheduled Maintenance, Saturday 17 February 2024 09.00-15.00

Posted on by nova.ghorique

Questionmark will be carrying out scheduled maintenance on Saturday 17 February 2024 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.

[OPEN] Blackboard Full Grade Centre Not Downloading Correctly

Posted on by digitaleducation

Blackboard’s “Work Offline” function, which allows you to download a spreadsheet of the Grade Centre, is currently not working as intended. When you attempt to download the Full Grade Centre of a course, some columns that are present online are not downloaded in the spreadsheet. This may affect workflows with offline or in-person assessments.

We have advised the supplier of this issue and they are investigating. In the meantime, the following steps can be followed as a workaround.

Workaround:

  1. Go to Full Grade Centre.
  2. Go to Manage.
  3. Click Create Smart View.
  4. Enter “ALL USERS” into the “Name” field.
  5. Select the box for “Add as favorite“
  6. Set “Type of view” to “User“
  7. Set “Select Criteria” to “All Users“
  8. Click “Submit“.

This should produce a Smart View that contains all of the columns in the course. Navigate to this smart view and download it as you would normally, choosing to display or not to display hidden info, selecting specific columns, etc., as required.

Turnitin approved paper deletions cannot be recovered

Posted on by digitaleducation

Turnitin has announced that, from 23 January, any approved deletions of papers will be permanent and cannot be recovered.

Once an administrator approves a paper deletion request, the submission is immediately deleted and removed from Turnitin’s database and the Assignment Inbox. Once deleted, the submission can no longer be recovered by the administrator or Turnitin’s Technical Support team.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.

[Open] Turnitin rubrics and sliding scales

Posted on by digitaleducation

We have identified a bug in Turnitin rubrics, in which using the sliding scale to update a score does not update the number correctly.

Therefore, we recommend that, if you use the rubric slider to apply a grade, you should click on the rubric slider scale circle (please see the screenshot below) once you have positioned it, in order to fix the number. This should allow you to apply the grade without issues.

Turnitin is planning to address the issue in a future update of the product.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.

Recent updates to Padlet

Posted on by Jenny Thistlethwaite

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

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.

Sorting posts

Posts can now be sorted by date, reaction score, alphabetically, randomly or manually. This is done in the ‘Layout’ section of the Settings.

I can’t draw

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. 

Polls

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

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.

Post fields customisation

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.

Upcoming Talis Aspire Reading List LTI upgrade

Posted on by chris.poyser

Due to an upcoming depreciation of the current mode of creating a link to Talis Reading lists we will be upgrading to the Talis Aspire Reading List LTI in the week commencing 29th Jan. This will involve a slight change in the way you set up and access the reading lists within your course.

Currently you can add a reading list as a tool link within the course menu or as an item link within the content area, both with the link title “Resource List” These two options will continue but with a change of title to “Talis Aspire Reading List”. The content area link will move from the content Tools menu to the Build Content menu.

The current content area links

The updated content area link.

All existing resource links will continue to work once we have moved to the LTI connection.

If you have any questions, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.