Turnitin is currently experiencing an unexpected service incident.
During this time, you may find that you are unable to log in or access reports.
Users accessing these services via Blackboard may also be affected.
Further information is available on the Turnitin status page.
If you have any concerns or questions, please contact us by emailing digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
Questionmark will be carrying out scheduled maintenance on Saturday 18 November 2023 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.
Places are available on the new DEO webinar “Introduction to Turnitin”
This will cover how instructors set up and manage submissions using Turnitin. The session will include a demonstration and Q and A. Upcoming dates; 6 November, 16 November and 28 November. For further information and booking ( via Develop. ). Please share with any colleagues interested in using Turnitin.
Changes to the way you access McGraw Hill content.
Due to McGraw Hill upgrading the integration between Blackboard and their content we will be upgrading to LTI Advantage in the week commmencing 6th Nov. There will be a slight change to the way you have to set up and access the McGraw Hill content within your course.
Currently there are a couple of ways to add/enable content from McGraw Hill, but this will be changing to a single link which will be visible via the Build Content menu.
McGraw Hill LTIA link example
With the upgrading of the integration come the following:
Current users will be aided in pairing McGraw Hill content by representatives from McGraw Hill, who will provide documentation for students accessing Connect from Blackboard.
On Saturday 28 October, between 09:00 – 09:30 BST, Turnitin will be performing maintenance on their system. During this window, 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.
You may be experiencing intermittent issues with searching within Re/Play when adding presentations to Unit Collections, or searching for unit folders to locate presentations to add to Blackboard content areas. As these issues are intermittent, you may have success trying again at another time.
The supplier is aware of this issue and is working to bring the search back to normal functioning. We will update this blog with any further developments.
Student playback of videos is not affected by this issue.
If you have any concerns or questions, please contact us by emailing digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
Questionmark will be carrying out scheduled maintenance on Saturday 21 October 2023 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.
IT Services worked over the weekend and have fixed the problem with importing groups from the timetabling system, Syllabus+, into Blackboard. All groups should now be available.
There has been a problem with importing groups from the timetabling system, Syllabus+, into Blackboard. IT Services has been investigating the problem and hopes to have a solution soon. In the meantime, staff will not be able to take attendance with Qwickly using these imported groups, although manually-created groups will be available for taking attendance as usual. There is also the option to take attendance using the ‘All Students’ option in Qwickly:
Alternatively, you can take a paper record of attendance and use the ‘Past Time’ option in Qwickly to enter the attendance at a later date.
We apologise for the inconvenience caused by this. If you have any questions, please contact digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
Turnitin has just informed us of its decision to cease support for assignment submissions on behalf of non-enrolled students, effective from 19 September. Submission on behalf of non-enrolled students is an integral part of the workflow that allowed instructors to bulk upload Blackboard assignments to turnitinuk.com to generate similarity reports.
From 19 September, student administrators who wish to continue to use this workflow will have to manually associate each submission with an enrolled student, following upload. If this is not feasible – due to large cohort size, for example – we recommend switching to using Turnitin assignments for student submissions, rather than Blackboard assignments. (If the submission requires multiple files per student, you will need two submission points: one via a Turnitin assignment, to generate the similarity report, and another via a Blackboard assignment, to manage the additional files.)
For group submissions, files must be submitted via Blackboard assignments; you will then need to download one file per group using the Marks and Feedback tool. Afterwards, you will upload these files to Turnitin and manually associate each of them with one group member in order to generate a similarity report.
More detailed guides for the options suggested here will be made available shortly.
If your school will be affected by Turnitin’s decision, please contact the DEO to notify us of the number of units that will be affected, by emailing us at digital-education@bristol.ac.uk