We are pleased to announce that SafeAssign, Blackboard’s originality checking tool, is now available for use in all courses using Blackboard Assignments.
The Digital Education Office has provided guidance on enabling this tool within Blackboard Assignments, which can be accessed as part of our supplementary resources for staff.
If you have any questions, please contact digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
On Saturday 18 November, between 17:00 – 17:30 GMT, Turnitin will be performing maintenance on their system. During this small window of time, 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.
Some students are experiencing issues when trying to view Re/Play videos embedded in Blackboard, receiving an error message stating that there is a problem with the LTI launch due to not being authorised to view the content. Playback via the link in the left-hand menu of courses is not being affected.
The supplier is aware of this issue and is working to bring the service back to normal functioning. We will update this blog with any further developments.
You can add content via the ‘Build Content’ menu in your Blackboard course to mitigate the issue:
If you have any concerns or questions, please contact us by emailing digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
Turnitin has now informed us that the incident that prevented users from accessing Turnitin Assignment Inbox and Feedback Studio has been resolved.
Starting at 11:42 AM today, an unexpected service incident occurred in Turnitin, particularly impacting users of the Feedback Studio and the integration. As a result, some users may have experienced difficulties logging in and accessing submitted papers. The impact of this issue affected all of our Turnitin users.
If you have any concerns or questions regarding this issue, please contact us by emailing digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
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.