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Welcome to the Digital Education Systems Help site, home to guides and information about the learning and teaching systems available at the University of Leeds. There are guides for staff on using systems for teaching and guides for students on using systems for learning.
Visit our News and Updates page to find out about new developments across digital education systems, updates on existing systems and details of any downtime or known issues. See Courses and Events for details of training courses, workshops and roadshows, while the monthly system updates page provides staff with an at a glance summary of what's new each month.
Latest News
Minerva Monthly Update - July 2025
In the July update, there is a new Activity Stream for staff, a new option to add captions to images in Minerva Documents and the option to create Test Question Banks via QTI. It is also now possible to see which students have reviewed Announcements in your Minerva modules and, for colleagues who utilise Blackboard Group Assignments, navigation is improved. Finally, the option for configuring Progress Tracking has moved to Module Settings.
PebblePad: Updated LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability)
PebblePad LTI 1.3 is now enabled for Minerva modules and organisations. The LTI allows the integration of PebblePad's tools and resources within the Minerva platform.
Minerva Monthly Update - June 2025
In the June update, there is a new Jumbled Sentence question in Blackboard Test, some Gradebook improvements and a new Discussion activity indicator.
There are also some updates to Annotate (the inline marking tool for Blackboard Assignment).