Digital Education Office blog – Page 60 – Service announcements and essential information from the Digital Education Office

Introduction to the new Assessment, Submission and Feedback (ASF) area in Blackboard

Posted on September 26, 2019October 2, 2019 by digitaleducation

We are running a short webinar on Friday, 27 September 2.15-2.45pm for admin and academic staff interested in finding out more about the new Assessment, Submission and Feedback (ASF) area in Blackboard.

If you would like to attend the webinar, please email david.perkins@bristol.ac.uk.

The webinar will be recorded so, if you can’t attend, please still send an email so you can be given access to the recording.

We’ll also be running the webinar again over the coming weeks as well as a webinar for designated ASF administrators for schools.

Re/Play Scheduled Maintenance, 5th October 12:00-04:00 AM

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Sophie Shippen

Re/Play will be undergoing essential maintenance from 12:00am to 04:00am on Saturday 5th October. Extended downtime is not expected, however, access to Re/Play may be unavailable for brief periods during this time.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Blackboard maintenance, Thu 3 Oct 11 pm – Fri 4 Oct 5 am

Posted on September 25, 2019 by Hanrahan Highland

Blackboard will be performing essential maintenance to their data centre overnight from Thursday 3 October to Friday 4 October 2019. Blackboard will be unavailable for around three hours during the maintenance window, which runs from 11 pm to 5 am.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Digital Education Office workshops for staff – places available

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Dan Wilson

Places are still available for Digital Education Office workshops. These include: Introduction to Blackboard, The Blackboard Grade Centre, Blackboard Collaborate, Designing and creating digital materials, and Video in teaching and learning. See the Digital Education Office events page for more details and to book.

Important update for Mac and Re/Play Desktop Recorder users.

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Pete Herbert

In the autumn Apple are releasing the latest version of their operating system ‘Catalina’ as part of this release they are withdrawing support for 32bit applications. At the current time the Re/Play Desktop recorder is one of these applications. We have been informed by the supplier that they are developing a new version and this should be with us by the end of TB1.

In the interim we would advise staff to not update the operating system until this is release if they wish to use the Desktop Recorder. If you have any questions please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk

Single Sign On Scheduled Maintenance 6pm-2am 12th September

Posted on September 9, 2019September 9, 2019 by Sophie Shippen

Please be aware that there is scheduled maintenance taking place from 6pm on 12th September to 2am on 13th September. This will impact Single Sign On, and access to Blackboard. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

For more information, please see the IT Services IT Status Page

Questionmark log in issues resolved: 2nd September

Posted on September 2, 2019September 11, 2019 by Naomi Beckett

Questionmark have now resolved the log in issue that was occurring this morning. Users should now be able to log in using single sign on.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/digital-education/support/tools/questionmark/

Issue with Questionmark OnDemand

Posted on September 2, 2019September 11, 2019 by Naomi Beckett

We are aware that there is a problem with logging into Questionmark this morning. We have been in contact with Questionmark and have been told this issue will be resolved this morning.

We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused, and will update the blog when we have more information.

Digital Education Office workshops for staff

Posted on August 19, 2019August 19, 2019 by digitaleducation

Places are available on Digital Education Office workshops in September onwards. These include: Introduction to Blackboard, Questionmark OnDemand, The Blackboard Grade Centre, Blackboard Collaborate, Designing and creating digital materials, and Video in teaching and learning. See the Digital Education Office events page for more details and to book.

New tool in Blackboard to batch upload feedback

Posted on August 19, 2019August 19, 2019 by digitaleducation

In response to suggestions from staff users, the Digital Education Office has worked with Blackboard to develop an extra tool to make marking quicker by batch uploading feedback documents. To find out more, see this three minute video:

Open video in new window: https://youtu.be/VdRdH8ylB5Y .

For further information please contact the Digital Education Office