• New Blackboard – new Browser required

    Are you missing links from the top of your Blackboard page – such as ‘Learning Edge Homepage’? Do you see something like this: If so, you are probably using Internet Explorer 7 on a PC – and will have difficulty accessing many of the facilities such as returning to the GO Portal or your Blackboard home…

  • Getting ready for THIS year!

    Next steps for academic staff – and one thing you SHOULDN’T do! At this time of year all academic staff should have gained access to the Blackboard course areas they will be using this year*.  Here are three guides from LTD that address the next steps: Enrolling colleagues: One of the first tasks that course…

  • ‘Digital Practitioner Series – What’s New With Service Pack 8′ – Session Notes

    For those who couldn’t make it to this week’s session on Blackboard’s recent Service Pack 8 update, I thought it would be worth making the session notes available. The notes take you through ten changes to Blackboard, including the new Text Editor, new Course Themes and Structures, as well as changes to the Tests tool.…

  • ‘Digital Practitioner Series – What’s New With Service Pack 8’ – Thursday 6th September 2012

    The next session in the Digital Practitioner staff development series will look at the recent update to Blackboard – Service Pack 8. Service Pack 8 was applied in July and adds improvements such as a new Text Editor, full support for Google’s Chrome browser, and a clearer interface. In this session we will show you…

  • Bristol Online Surveys: System Maintenance – 29th August 2012

    On Wednesday 29th August 2012, between 20:00 and midnight the University of Bristol will be carrying out essential maintenance work on its IT services. During this period, BOS will be offline and unavailable. This will affect both respondent and administrative access. Please note that the reduced performance of BOS is also anticipated on Thursday, 30th…

  • Learning Edge: Blackboard 9.1 System Maintenance

    Learning Edge, Blackboard Learn 9.1 will be unavailable between 01:00 and 03:00 on the 26th of August while Blackboard Managed Hosting carry out essential maintenance. This proactive maintenance will ensure database performance and stability. We apologise for any inconvenience this downtime may cause to you. If you have any queries regarding this work please don’t…

  • Are You Developing Exemplary Courses?

    Every year we all have an opportunity to improve: experience, reflection and feedback help us to do things better and do better things. This year, building on the strong foundations that have been made, we want to help you exploit the capabilities of Learning Edge to deliver even more innovative, effective and flexible learning experiences…

  • Campus Pack System Maintenance

    On Saturday, 4th August, 2012 from 23:00 Learning Objects will be performing system maintenance on the Campus Pack environment. Downtime is expected to be 6 to 8 hours. We apologise for any inconvenience this maintenance window may cause to you. If you have any queries regarding this work please don’t hesitate to contact the Learning…

  • A New Look Learning Edge is Launched!

    We did it in a record 24 hours! Just a quick post, to let you know the upgrade to Learning Edge has been sucessful and you can now log in to see the changes we’ve been talking about for yourself. We hope you like it! Do please let us know what you think – leave a comment…

  • Learning Edge will be unavailable Sunday 22nd and Monday 23rd July

    For approximately 48 hours from Sunday 22nd July to Monday 23rd July, the Learning Edge system will be unavailable due to the Service Pack 8 upgrade that will be applied. We have recently reported on what’s new in the upgrade.  You can find further details here:  http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/learningedge/2012/06/25/learning-edge-is-getting-a-face-lift-summer-2012-upgrade/ Learning Technology have been working hard to ensure…