News and Updates

The latest updates on developments across digital education systems are detailed below along with service information on our dedicated Downtime and Maintenance page.

You can also find status updates from Digital Education Systems on Bluesky at desystemsleeds.bsky.social and at the IT service status page for wider University IT updates.

You can also get these updates directly to your inbox by subscribing to the mailing list. Monthly summaries which provide an overview of the new features, bug-fixes, and improvements made to Digital Education Systems can also be found on the Monthly Digital Education Systems Updates page.

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CampusPress will be updated to the latest version of Wordpress between Monday 1 July and Friday 5 July 2024.

Podcasting tools are now available to both staff and students. Licence availability is limited,, so don't delay if you're interested in exploring this new opportunity!

If you need access to an assignment submitted before 2021/22, you can log a request via the IT website and we can access the content for you.

A new Turnitin Similarity Report integration is now available for Blackboard Assignments. Our guide on using Blackboard Assignment with the Turnitin similarity report integration will provide you with more information.

The supplier has resolved the issue.

There will be a two hour maintenance window taking place on the Gradescope system between 14:00 and 16:00 BST

Turnitin has experienced a service degradation which may have affected some users accessing Turnitin.

All modules due to run in 2024/25 have been created in Minerva and are now ready for population.

From 26 June, staff and students will be required to use Single Sign On to access internal GitHub repositories and organisations.

The June update introduces improvements to Announcements, Blackboard Tests, Gradebook, Group settings, and updated filtering options when accessing modules. The AI Design Assistant now also has the option to create content in different languages.

There is a known issue where the “Save settings for future use” checkbox within optional assignment settings may not work as intended.

Module areas in Minerva for 2024/25 are expected to be available by w/c 10th of June.

New PebblePad release for May 2024 focuses on accessibility improvements.

Gradescope requires third-party cookies enabled to connect with Minerva. Check your browser settings if you encounter an error.

The University, and the IT Service Desk, will be closed on Monday 27, and Tuesday 28 May 2024. To ensure service delivery, all digital education systems will be monitored during this period.

Turnitin users should no longer experience slowness when uploading submissions, the supplier has resolved the issue.

Turnitin are looking into an issue which is causing users to experience slowness when uploading submissions.

PebblePad identified the cause behind the issue that resulted in users not being able to log in and timeouts when saving. This has now been resolved.

PebblePad is experiencing an issue that could affect users logging in and saving work.

Sign up to attend the Digital Education Network on Global Accessibility Awareness Day to hear about developments around accessibility within the University.

The May update introduces improvements to Blackboard Tests, Gradebook navigation and conditional availability.

The University, and the IT Service Desk, will be closed on Monday 6 May 2024. All digital education systems will be monitored during this period to ensure service delivery.

Minerva now detects and supports device reduced motion setting.

We expect normal service to resume on Monday. Scheduled lecture capture recordings will continue to be monitored carefully throughout the day.

We have been notified that some scheduled lecture capture recordings are not automatically starting as expected. Record Now functionality remains unaffected.

The issue has now been resolved.

Turnitin has experienced a service degradation which may have affected some users accessing Turnitin.

Are you responsible for creating learning materials, website content or digital documents? Find out how you can get involved in Global Accessibility Awareness Day on 16 May by making your digital content more accessible.

Find out how you can use the blogging tool CampusPress as part of your learning and teaching practices.

When editing the title or description of a Learning Module in Minerva, staff may experience a delay for the page to load.

The April update introduces improvements to Blackboard Tests and Assignments, Discussions, Learning Modules, Gradebook Calculations, Conditional Availability, Forms and Batch Edit functionality.

Turnitin will undergo a five-hour maintenance window between 15:00 to 20:00 GMT on Saturday 16 March 2024.

The University, and the IT Service Desk, will be closed between Thursday 28 March and Tuesday 2 April 2024 inclusive.

New PebblePad releases for March 2024 includes improvements to SV2 and exporting, opening evidence in new tab and a favourites indicator.

There is a known issue with the Password Reset Feature on Athena TDM and learners will see an error message when attempting to reset their password.

From 11 March as part of the the Stream (Classic) video migration project, videos owned by individual users will be moved from Stream (Classic) into Stream (On SharePoint).

Staff who wish to request a change to the owner of a Mediasite lecture capture or recording are advised to refer to guidance on the IT website for who to contact.

The March update introduces updates to the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Design Assistant, Gradebook, Blackboard Assignments/Tests and Announcements.

Interested in business simulation tools? Join Nicola Smith, Associate Professor at Leeds University Business School, for an online demonstration of SimVenture Evolution in Practice.

Turnitin will undergo a four-hour maintenance window between 14:00 to 18:00 GMT on Saturday 16 March 2024.

Our supplier has identified the issue and a fix has been applied to resolve the issue.

New PebblePad releases for February 2024 include a favourite function, and an improvement to comments and iconography.

A decision has been made to discontinue our use of Top Hat, which means that you won’t be able to host assessments, active learning, or polls on this platform from September 2024.

For anonymous Tests with questions that need to be graded e.g. Essay questions, it is possible for feedback to disappear from the Gradebook during the grading process if a specific workflow is used.

The first phase of the migration began on February 5th 2024 and has now been completed. Learn more about what the team or working on and how this affects your Stream content.

Find out how you can get involved in our CampusPress blogging pilot.

Discover how you can use Minerva's AI Design Assistant to help with the creation of content within your module areas.

The February update introduces a new tool for gathering information/surveying students (Forms) and improvements to the flexible grading interface and recording tool.

Microsoft announced that they are retiring Stream (Classic) in June 2024. In preparation, IT are migrating all published video content (circa 180,000 videos) from Stream (Classic) into Stream (on SharePoint).

Are you curious to learn more about student perspectives of academic personal tutoring (APT)? This session will explore academic personal tutoring through the student lens and is available to all colleagues.

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