Author: Gill Ritchie
| Date | Title | Category | Tags |
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| December 20, 2010 | E-Learning Assistant Opportunities Are you currently a student at Queen Mary (or do you know one?) who has some IT skills and would like to earn some money getting involved in e-learning related projects? We are currently looking to recruit a number students to help out with recording lectures in the School of Medicine and Dentistry. |
News and Events | |
| August 3, 2010 | Problem with Blackboard log in on SMD Education web page There is currently a problem with the Blackboard login box on the School of Medicine and Dentistry web pages (http://www.smd-edu.qmul.ac.uk/). While this problem persists, the standard College Blackboard entry page on http://www.elearning.qmul.ac.uk/ should be used to access the system. The problem with the login page on the SMD Education web site will be rectified as [...] |
VLE Service Announcements | |
| February 24, 2010 | Terms and Conditions with Selective Release In the past, people have asked how to set things up on Blackboard so that students have to accept some terms and conditions before they can access a particular piece of content. This can be done with a combination of an Assessment (i.e. a quiz) and the Selective Release functionality. This article describes what this solution looks like and goes through the steps required to achieve it. The steps should take no longer than about 15 minutes to carry out and in doing so you will learn about both the Grade Book and the Selective Release functions in Blackboard. |
How-to guidance | blackboard, grade_book, selective_release |
| February 16, 2010 | Blackboard back online Blackboard is now back online after the database upgrade. |
VLE Service Announcements | |
| February 15, 2010 | Reminder: Blackboard offline from 5pm tonight This is a reminder that Blackboard will be offline from 5pm tonight (Monday 15th February) to 12 noon tomorrow (Tuesday 16th February) so the new database servers can be put in. This is part of the VLE upgrade project which will improve the responsiveness and capacity of the system. |
VLE Service Announcements | |
| January 27, 2010 | What’s going to happen tonight? As I’m about to leave for the day, I can’t help but wonder what’s going to happen this evening. What am I talking about? Well obviously the much talked about announcement sometime today (5pm on the west coast of the USA?) of the eagerly awaited Apple tablet computer of course…what else? I’m not really interested* [...] |
Blog posts | apple, classroom technologies, hardware, tablet, twitter |
| January 25, 2010 | Training session: Introduction to QM’s VLE If you are just starting out with the central College virtual learning system (VLE), Blackboard, or you are wondering about what it might have to offer, you might be interested to know about our “Introduction to QM’s Virtual Learning Environment” session which is taking place this Wednesday afternoon. The session is aimed at staff who [...] |
News and Events | blackboard, session, training, vle |
| Assessment tool problems resolved Blackboard is now back online and problems that occurred earlier today with the Assessment (quiz) tool have now been resolved. Apologies once again for any inconvenience that may have been caused. |
VLE Service Announcements | ||
| Blackboard unavailable for a short time from 17.30 this evening Blackboard will be unavailable for around half an hour from 17.30 this evening (Monday 25th January). This is short notice however it is necessary for us to take the system offline briefly to resolve a technical issue. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. |
VLE Service Announcements | ||
| Problems with the Assessment tool We are currently experiencing problems with the Assessment (quiz) tool in Blackboard. The issue is being investigated and we hope to have the problem resolved as soon as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience this may be causing. |
VLE Service Announcements |