Articles tagged "vle"
| Date | Title | Category | Tags |
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| January 20, 2012 | Announcement: A New Online Learning Environment for QMUL Blackboard, the centrally offered platform for e-learning is being replaced. The new online learning environment will be an integration of Moodle (for VLE) and Mahara (for student-led learning and group tools for informal learning). The new platform will be available for previews and training from March, and people will be able to move and enhance (or start afresh) their course areas from April until September 2012). It will then be available for teaching over the 2012-13 academic year. |
News and Events | blackboard, vle |
| October 7, 2011 | Planned outage all day on 03/11/11 To all users, Blackboard will be unavailable for the entire day of Thursday the 3rd of November for a planned upgrade. Work will begin at 7am and is likely to continue well past 5pm that day. We have tried to time this for a period of low activity but we do apologise for the inconvenience [...] |
VLE Service Announcements | vle |
| April 27, 2010 | “What I wish I could do in Blackboard (but can’t)” You are invited to an open session for staff users of the VLE to give feedback about what kinds of e-learning you would like to be able to do in the VLE, but currently can’t. Wednesday 19th May 2010, Fogg Lecture Theatre, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences |
News and Events VLE Service Announcements | vle |
| April 8, 2010 | New version of Java – security issue Dear Users, If you are accessing Blackboard on a non-College PC (i.e. your own laptop, desktop or any computer that you have administrator rights to) you will need to read and note this issue. Java version 1.6.0_19 has been released. Oracle/Sun has introduced a new practice with this release where users will sometimes be presented [...] |
VLE Service Announcements | java, vle |
| March 24, 2010 | Important – Rollover 2010 Dear Colleagues, Please note that, while this announcement is targetted toward staff using Blackboard, students should also make themselves aware of this process. This is the first in a series of communications to inform you of the process to ‘rollover’ the VLE from the current academic year to 2010/2011. After ‘rollover’ you will no longer [...] |
VLE Service Announcements | rollover, vle |
| March 11, 2010 | E-Portfolio tool will be turned off on the 18th of March Dear Users, We are discontinuing the E-Portfolio tool as of the 18th of March. There are two reasons for this decision: Blackboard, the software vendor, is no longer developing this tool. It is unlikely that anything created inside your e-portfolio will be transferable to any future system. Secondly, the software has not seen the scale [...] |
VLE Service Announcements | blackboard, e-portfolio, vle |
| 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 |
| January 2, 2010 | VLE Description of Service As part of a step-change in E-Learning Provision at QMUL we are expanding our range of services, hiring new team members and formalising what we already do. This document is part of the latter. The VLE has become a core college service at QMUL and it is important that we are able to describe that [...] |
News and Events | blackboard, vle |
| December 4, 2009 | Restart planned for 5pm today (04/12/09) We will have to do an unplanned restart of Blackboard at 5pm today. We are very sorry for any disruption this may cause. If you are working in Blackboard at this time – please save your work and log out. The restart will take approximately 15 minutes. Apologies again |
VLE Service Announcements | blackboard, vle |
| October 28, 2009 | Roles in Blackboard Course Instructor, Designer, Teaching Assistant, Student, Auditor…you may be aware of the terminology but how much do you know about roles in Blackboard and what they mean? This article explains what the various roles are and provides you with enough information to allow you to ensure that the right people have the right level of access to your Blackboard course area. |
Introducing... | blackboard, vle |


