Are you September-Ready?

Say it quietly – September is just around the corner. Sorry to have to bring that up.

Do you have everything in place, ready for your students to arrive? Here is our checklist to help you to prepare.

Have you enrolled on your modules?

From this year, all staff, including module leaders will need to complete the Blackboard Access form on the logged in Staff Portal for each of their modules. Please allow 24 hours for your request to be actioned.

There is also a Blackboard Access 2018-19 form still live on the staff portal. If you are taking over a module this year, it may be useful to enrol on last year\’s module.

Are you familiar with the new template?

Blackboard has a slightly new look this year. For more on this, see our previous blog post.

The sections marked out with a red stripe contain instructions for tutors and are not visible to students. These sections can be deleted once you feel you no longer need them.

If you have not yet updated your new Blackboard site the default welcome message will notify students that  their tutor has not added any content yet.

Have you transferred your content?

As ever, modules will be empty and you will need to transfer content from the 2018/19 instance of the module. Do not transfer the Assessment page as this needs to be set up afresh each year.

Instructions for transferring content can be found here.

Sharpen your skills

We run a range of courses designed to help you get the most out of Blackboard. These are published on the Staff Development Workshop page and will be advertised via our Twitter, blog and the staff newsletter.

If you require one-to-one training on a specific area of Blackboard, email us with details at TEL@worc.ac.uk