Adam MasseyThe upgrade planned for Sunday 19 August has been postponed. The chosen date would impact students revising for resits and submitting assignments. A date during the 2018 academic year will be investigated and agreed with all of the Schools and announced in due course. This post was edited on 8 August 2018 to announce the Continue Reading…
Service Interruption: 28 & 29 June
Access to Blackboard will be interrupted overnight on Thursday, 28th June 2018 into the early hours of Friday 29th. The work will begin at 2300 BST and will last six hours. Access to Blackboard should be considered at risk during these times. See details for other time zones.
Blackboard Rolling Restart
Please note that there is a scheduled Rolling Restart on Aston Blackboard System for Wednesday 30th May at 1am BST. This is a necessary task to be undertaking to avoid future performance issues on the Blackboard database environment. We don’t expect any disruption on services over this period, but we will keep you updated on progress. Continue Reading…
Quick Tips – Test Availability Exceptions
The following video shows you how to apply specific Test/Quiz settings to specific students or groups. Subtitles/Closed captions are available in the video player and a full transcript is also available to download (pdf). PLEASE NOTE: This video was updated 05/05/2018.
Interruption to service on 27 April 2018
Blackboard will be unavailable for up to 30 mins during the early hours of Friday, 27 April 2018. The work will begin at 0100 BST and will last six hours. See details for other time zones. Blackboard’s Managed Hosting team say the six hours is for the entire maintenance work to complete, and that Blackboard should Continue Reading…
Quick Tips – File upload drag and drop locations
The following video shows you where you can drag and drop multiple files to make uploading content to Blackboard quicker and easier. Subtitles/Closed captions are available in the video player and a full transcript is also available to download (pdf).
Issues fixed in January 2018
The upgrade over new year, to prepare us for the move to New Box View, also squished some bugs. As we were moving from Q2 2017 Cumulative Update 3, to Q2 2017 Cumulative Update 5, there were lots of fixes. The following three caused us the most problems this academic year: Can’t access menus in the Continue Reading…
Inline Grading has moved to New Box View
Having been given a deadline of January 15th, when Crocodoc would stop working, we have completed the transition to New Box View. If you’ve used Inline Grading in its previous incarnation, you should be able to find your way around the New Box View. Blackboard have more detailed instructions on their support site. Note that, Continue Reading…
Quick Tip – Course to Course Navigation
The following video shows you the very simple but often useful “Course to course navigation” feature. Subtitles/Closed captions are available in the video player and a full transcript is also available to download (pdf).
Moving to New Box View
Inline Grading will move from Crocodoc to the New Box View on Friday 12th January, 2018. After this date, any annotations added to student attempts in Inline Grading will be burned into the student’s work, and you won’t be able to edit them after the transition. What Should I Do? The Inline Grading tool is Continue Reading…