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

Minerva now detects and supports device reduced motion setting.

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.

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

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

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.

There will be a four hour maintenance window taking place on the Turnitin system on Saturday 27 January 2024.

The January update brings some improvements to assessment tools (including the introduction of a Test attempt log), changes to conditional release functionality, and Gradebook.

Scheduled Minerva maintenance will take place Tuesday 12th December between 1:00 and 2:00AM (GMT). My Leeds page will be inaccessible, all other parts of Minerva will be unaffected.

The December update brings some improvements to the Gradebook and assessment tools. Support for adding images via the content editor is also expanded.

From the end of 2023 MathJax content added to Minerva will no longer render. This will typically affect modules from 21/22 and earlier.

The November update brings some improvements to the content editor (for adding images), the Gradebook and Assessment tools, and a new feature in Turnitin allowing assignment settings to be copied. A known issue relating to progress tracking is also resolved.

This online training session is aimed at staff and postgraduates who are new to Minerva and need to use it to deliver or support learning and teaching.

Turnitin will undergo scheduled maintenance on Saturday 28 October 2023, from 9:00am to 9:30am BST.

Staff and students should now be able to access Minerva as normal.

Staff and students may be unable to access Minerva. The issue began at approximately 10.20am.

Staff and students may be unable to access Minerva.

The October update to Minerva introduces updates to Blackboard Assignments, Tests and improved functionality to send reminders to students for Turnitin assessments. Changes have also recently been introduced to the grading interface for Blackboard Assignments and Tests.

The issue with Inaccuracies with automatically created Minerva Groups in School and Faculty organisations has now been resolved.

A new 'flexible grading' interface is now available for Blackboard Test and Assignment.

We have become aware of inaccuracies in the membership of student groups (specifically made for communications) within School and Faculty organisations. Whilst these are investigated we advise that staff should not use these groups.

In Minerva, Progress Tracking is not working for Web Link content.

Our vendor has released a new grading interface which we will enable in Minerva w/c 18th September. This will affect the marking of Blackboard Assignments and Tests only.

New Minerva module areas for the 2023/24 academic were made available for population in June, and staff are now reminded to build their modules before teaching begins in the new academic year.

The September update to Minerva introduces updates to Learning Modules, Module Banners, Batch Editing and Progress Tracking. Additionally, a Recording Tool has been enabled and there is now the option to remove Blackboard Collaborate from the Details & Actions menu.

A thirty minute scheduled maintenance window is taking place on Gradescope on Saturday 23 September between 15:00 to 15:30 BST

An eight-hour scheduled maintenance will take place on the Turnitin and Gradescope systems on Saturday 12 August 2023, between 15:00 to 23:00 BST.

The August update to Minerva introduces updates to Learning Modules, Messages, Gradebook and Groups. A known issue relating to Calculated Numeric Test questions is resolved.

Sharing good practice: how module builders could enhance their Minerva Module Content Area by considering students' perspectives.

There will be an eight hour scheduled maintenance window taking place on the Turnitin and Gradescope systems on Saturday 12th August 2023 between 15:00 and 23:00 BST

The July update to Minerva introduces updates to assessment, options to resize media added to Documents, copying, and progress tracking (student view). The option for students to self-enrol is now also possible in Ultra Course View Organisations.

A summary of key Minerva updates made since summer 2022 is now available.

Minerva will be unavailable for up to 30 minutes on Thursday 15th June between 5:30am and 06:30am (BST) for essential maintenance.

All modules due to run in 2023/24 have been created, and enrolments have been added.

An issue has been identified with submission dates for submissions where the grades have been returned.

The June update to Minerva introduces improvements to Tests and Module Links. Announcement now also appear in the top menu and there is a new icon for Learning Modules.

Information to help you prepare your 2023/24 module areas, including support and guidance for content copying, and a summary of key updates to Minerva functionality since June 2022.

Minerva will be unavailable for up to 30 minutes on Thursday 18th May between 5:30am and 06:30am (BST) for essential maintenance.

The May update to Minerva introduces improvements to Gradebook, Tests, drag and drop functionality, editing options for LTI assessments (e.g. Turnitin) and Ally.

The issue causing staff and students to intermittently see errors with content loading in Minerva is now resolved.

The issue where Minerva messages were incorrectly sent to people with inactive enrolments has been resolved.

There is an issue that may intermittently affect staff and students using Minerva. You may find content fails to load or see an error message. Waiting then trying again by refreshing the page may resolve the issue.

The issue causing staff and students to intermittently see errors with content loading in Minerva is now resolved.

There is an issue which may intermittently affect staff and students using Minerva. You may find content fails to load or see an error message. Waiting then trying again by refreshing the page may resolve the issue.

The April update to Minerva introduces a new module search function for both staff and students. Improvements have been made to Gradebook, Tests and copying.

The issue some staff were experiencing when using the filter in the Gradebook grid view filter has been resolved.

The March update to Minerva brings improvements to assessment grading, scheduling of announcements, and the ability to control the visibility of module/organisation enrolments to students.

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