Service announcements and essential information from the Digital Education Office
The Digital Insights surveys for students and for staff who support the delivery of learning are available from today.
Professional Services staff survey
https://insights2021.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/university-of-bristol-digital-experience-insights-survey-2
All surveys will close on December 6th.
The University will be running surveys with staff and students on their digital experience using the Jisc Digital Experience Insights survey.
The three surveys, which will run between November 16th and December 7th 2020, are:
The surveys will be managed by Education Services with input from other stakeholders, including IT Services.
The Digital Experience Insights survey allows us to collect and analyse data about the digital environment and how digital technologies are used in learning, teaching and support activity.
The surveys capture user expectations and experiences of technology, based on concise question sets which have been intensively trialled within higher education. The surveys will allow us to gather data on the digital experience of staff and students and benchmark our provision with other HEIs. The information generated will inform our decision-making and resource allocation, and demonstrate where we have made improvements.
Please encourage your colleagues and students to complete the survey. As a direct result of last year’s student survey, we have:
More information and project updates will be posted on the DEO website.
After the course ran successfully during the digital induction week, the DEO is updating ‘Digitally Ready’ with new content in November and January. In this update, we tell you a bit more about what students thought of the course so far and what’s coming up.
‘Digitally Ready’ is available under your list of ‘My Organisations’ on Blackboard. If you can’t access the course, follow this link where you can self-enrol onto Digitally Ready.
Turnitin have informed us that similarity report generation times are now back to normal.
More information can be found on the Turnitin Status page.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the degradation of this service.
Turnitin have informed us that similarity report generation times are returning to normal. However, some users may still be experiencing degraded report generation times, due to the backlog created by yesterday’s incident.
More information can be found on the Turnitin Status page.
We apologise for any inconvenience. If you have any questions please contact digital-education@bristol.ac.uk
The DEO have drafted two new guides to support staff planning teaching and timetables in TB2. The first guide is a summary of options for recording online and face-to-face teaching. This guide also includes options which could be used instead of recording (which might be useful for all students on a unit). The second guide summarises some questions and considerations which might be useful for any staff considering hybrid teaching (teaching online and face-to-face students at the same time) to enable self-isolating students to join on-campus sessions. Hybrid teaching can be complex and difficult to do well, and teaching rooms are not currently designed to support it. This guidance considers some of the areas you may need to address before you choose to adopt it.
Turnitin have advised us that due to an unexpected service degradation users may have experienced slowness when submitting using the service on Thursday 5th November between 17:17 and 19:13.
Submission is now back to normal.
However users may still continue to experience slow similarity report generation.
More information can be found on the Turnitin Status page.
We apologise for any inconvenience. If you have any questions please contact digital-education@bristol.ac.uk
Turnitin report that they believe they have resolved the earlier issue, but are continuing to monitor the situation. Users will still continue to experience slow similarity report generation during this time, while they process the backlog of submissions.
More information can be found on the Turnitin Status page.
We apologise for any inconvenience. If you have any questions please contact digital-education@bristol.ac.uk
Turnitin have informed us that their service is currently experiencing an unexpected service disruption. Users may find that Similarity Reports are not generating.
We will update you with any new information when we have it.
More information can be found on the Turnitin Status page.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
If you have any questions please contact digital-education@bristol.ac.uk
The issue affecting Collaborate has been resolved. The service was affected between 2.50pm and 3.15pm. During this time, some users may have experienced an error when joining a Collaborate session.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused. If you have any questions, please contact digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.