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Turnitin Issue 28/02/22 – Update
The following advice had been given to us by Turnitin, who advise that this issue is likely caused by the privacy settings enabled in your browser. If you see an...
PebblePad: 20 minute bookable sessions
Book a 20 minute one-to-one support session. Colleagues from the Digital Education Systems team will guide you through how to incorporate this application into your teaching or assessment activities. BOOK...
Create a Buddycheck evaluation: Staff Guide
Once you have set up Buddycheck on your module (by adding group sets and creating a link in the module) you can start to create a Buddycheck evaluation. Steps in...
How to set up Buddycheck on your module: Staff Guide
Buddycheck is used to help evaluate group work contribution. To set this up on your module you will need to create Group Sets in Minerva, then connect Buddycheck to your...
Staff FAQ – Can I edit a Buddycheck evaluation?
You can edit an evaluation if the start date has not yet passed. When you click on the Buddycheck link in Minerva, you will see a list of all existing...
Interpreting Similarity Reports from Turnitin – Staff Guide
What is a Similarity Report? The Similarity report highlights text in a student’s paper that matches an online source. How do I open the Similarity Report? Go into the Minerva...
Staff FAQ – Can I review Buddycheck grades before I publish them to Minerva?
Yes, you can check you are happy with how Buddycheck adjusts grades before they are sent back to Minerva. You can also make some adjustments to the weightings as you...
Staff FAQ – Can students see the Buddycheck labels/explanations?
No, students cannot see the labels and corresponding explanations in Buddycheck. The labels and explanations only appear in the staff report. < Return to Buddycheck Staff Guides...
Staff FAQ – Can a student see what score another student gave them in Buddycheck?
No – the option for students to see who gave them what score is disabled system wide. Students will only be able to work out who gave them their score...
Staff FAQ – What do students see when you click ‘release results’ in Buddycheck?
When you click release results students receive a notification via email that their results are now available. They visit the Buddycheck link in the Minerva module to view results (a...
Changes to Minerva – Ultra Course View eLearning Resource
In summer 2021, the first phase of the Minerva Upgrade Project saw Minerva migrate to the latest version of Blackboard. This upgrade delivered many benefits, including accessibility improvements, a more...
Adjust and publish grades in Buddycheck – Staff Guide
Once the end date of the evaluation is reached, Buddycheck calculates an adjustment factor for each student, based on all the responses given to the peer evaluation. Responses are scored...
Troubleshooting Collaborate – Staff Guide
Sometimes, you may experience problems when trying to connect to a Collaborate session, or hearing the audio. If you have issues, please follow the advice below. There is also further...
Collaborate Tools – Staff Guide
Participants Panel You can think of the Participants panel as your “control centre” for conducting a session. It is from here that you manage Participants by granting and revoking their...
Automatic cleanup of archive and exports in Minerva
If you use the archive or export function within Minerva modules or organisations they will, going forward, be auto deleted after a specified time. The latest update to Minerva on...
Turnitin Issue 28/02/22
Some users may find that they are currently unable to access Turnitin assignments. Most will see an error that says ‘invalid or missing state’ when they try to click on...
Minerva performance issues – update 23/02
On Tuesday 22 February Minerva experienced issues from approximately 16:05-16:45. A second related incident occurred at 18:20-18:30, although users may have noticed slow performance immediately after this time period. Our...
Minerva performance issues – update
Our vendor has now applied a fix. We believe this has resolved the issue but will continue to monitor the service. Apologies for any inconvenience caused by this disruption.
Minerva – performance issues
Minerva is currently experiencing performance issues. We have escalated this with the vendor as a matter of urgency. Please accept our sincere apologies for this issue with the service. We...
Introduction to Turnitin – Staff Guide
Turnitin is a plagiarism detection and marking system which provides: Similarity Check: A plagiarism checking tool which identifies matches between pieces of writing and produces an similarity report. See more...
Copyright and Minerva
Anything uploaded into Minerva must be in accordance with all legal requirements and the University’s relevant policies and Terms and Conditions of Use/Employment. It is your responsibility to ensure that...
Staff FAQ – How do I sync students/group information in Buddycheck?
Your group sets are created in Minerva, but if student data changes in your Blackboard groups after you created the evaluation, you will need to re-sync the data. Click on...
Review and release results in Buddycheck – Staff Guide
Review evaluations When you click on the Buddycheck link in Minerva, you will see a list of all existing evaluations. Click on the evaluation to review submissions. You will see...
Resolved with workaround – Turnitin Issue reported 15 Feb
After liaising with the vendor, it is advised that adaptive release settings used on Turnitin assignments must not have a start date that is after the due date in the...
PebblePad Downtime: 30 March 22, between 7am & 7:30am
On Wednesday 30th March 2022, there will be 30 minutes of potential downtime from 7 am whilst PebblePad implement their latest release (2022.3). Two improvemets have been made to Submission...
Padlet Downtime: 25 March 22, between 11pm & 1am
Scheduled Downtime On Friday, March 25, between 11:00pm – 01:00am GMT Padlet will be conducting a round of maintenance. During this time, you will not be able to access the...
Minerva Ultra Course View – Dates to Note
You will be aware that the next phase of the Minerva Upgrade Project, which focuses on improvements to teaching areas within the platform, is now underway, and that, due to...
Navigating Feedback Studio- Staff Guide
Feedback Studio can be accessed by clicking on either the paper title, grade/blue pencil or similarity score for a selected paper. The paper will open in a new window. It’s...
Marking Tools and Methods in Turnitin – Staff Guide
Turnitin has a range of different methods available for marking and annotating submissions. Quickmarks and commenting tools Comments can be added by clicking on the paper, in the place where...
Filtering to or selecting a group in StREAM@Leeds – Staff Guide
You can create, save and use Groups in StREAM@Leeds to create cohorts of individual students across multiple courses, levels and years without the limitation of filters. Once a Group is...
PebblePad Tips and FAQs: Student Guide
Here are some frequently asked questions and tips about PebblePad. How do I submit my PebblePad assignment for assessment? What is the difference between an Asset and a Resource? Are...
Rename a Group in StREAM@Leeds – Staff Guide
You can create, save and use Groups in StREAM@Leeds to create cohorts of individual students across multiple courses, levels and years without the limitation of filters. Once a Group is...
Create groups in StREAM@Leeds – Staff Guide
You can create, save and use Groups in StREAM@Leeds to create cohorts of individual students across multiple courses, levels and years without the limitation of filters. Once a Group is...
Learning Analytics StREAM@Leeds A to Z of all guides – Staff
This A-Z includes guides written for staff and students; this is to help staff who may receive enquiries for students and want to see what guidance is available to them....
Resolved – Turnitin and Grade Centre Issue 18/03/22
Turnitin have released a fix for any assignments affected where grades are not syncing with the Grade Centre. If the instructor now goes to access any paper in Turnitin for...
Embedding PebblePad Links in Minerva – Staff Guide
There are three types of PebblePad links that can be created in a Minerva: PebblePad ATLAS PebblePad Resources PebblePad Pebble+ They can be added in the content area of a...
Deleting Submissions in Turnitin – Staff Guide
Deleting Submissions Papers can be deleted individually. Deleting submissions is permanent. To delete the submissions: Go to the Turnitin inbox and click … next to the paper you wish to...
Learning Analytics StREAM@Leeds A to Z of Student Guides
Don’t forget you can search this site for answers to questions you might have. Search this site for help with StREAM@Leeds A Accessibility statement for StREAM@Leeds APT – Using StREAM@Leeds...
Turnitin and Grade Centre Issue 18/03/22
There is currently a known issue where some Turnitin assignment grades are not syncing with the module Grade Centre, despite the feedback release date having passed. Instructors will see that...
Using Collaborate – Student Guide
To access Collaborate from a module, go to the Details and Actions menu. Click on Join Session. This will open a drop down menu where you can select the Module...
Collaborate on Mobile Devices – Staff Guide
Collaborate sessions can be accessed via the web browser on iOS (Safari only), Android (Chrome only) and Microsoft Surface devices. We would recommend joining from the browser, rather than the...