Blackboard Info Sheets

As of this year, I'm no longer the School’s Blackboard and Moodle Support technician, so I thought I'd point teaching and admin staff to a range of resources for Blackboard. The uptake of Blackboard by staff and students has been swift and deft, so you should have no fears about going solo at this point. There are, of course, numerous resources available now in place since I first started supporting the School in 2006, and these resources will help you when shelving older courses and creating new ones for teaching this semester.

I've uploaded a 'Blackboard Info' folder on the School's K drive. You'll find a range of how-to sheets from (re)categorising a weblink; managing groups; backing-up sections; adding/deleting students, creating assessments; working with columns; and troubleshooting for staff and students.

You can use QWeb (My IT@ UB job logging) on the Gateway page to request Blackboard help when removing an old or installing a new course. The drop down boxes will guide you through relevant information you’ll need to include in order to log a job in with service desk (such as course codes, teaching staff, etc). You can also use QWeb to follow up on any ongoing issues you have with IT generally at the University.

Please also avail yourself of the online teaching and learning resources being created by the ever-helpful LEWS team. You get to their repository by going through myIT@UB and selecting ‘LEWS’ followed by ‘Staff Help’.

Lastly, I’d like to thank you all for throwing yourselves into the deep end with the range of new techno-thingys that the School and University has been updating over the last three years. Whilst the Teknia newsletter will no longer exist, I will keep the BSSH Bloggers going for those interested. All the best for the coming teaching year be it online or face to face. Ciao!