When there is a planned software update or release, often to introduce new features, bug fixes or improvements, you'll find associated News posts on this page.
Sometimes these can involve short periods of planned downtime, if so, we'll mention this in the relevant News post below and also show them on the Downtime and Maintenance page to help you keep track.
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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.
New PebblePad release for May 2024 focuses on accessibility improvements.
The May update introduces improvements to Blackboard Tests, Gradebook navigation and conditional availability.
Minerva now detects and supports device reduced motion setting.
The April update introduces improvements to Blackboard Tests and Assignments, Discussions, Learning Modules, Gradebook Calculations, Conditional Availability, Forms and Batch Edit functionality.
New PebblePad releases for March 2024 includes improvements to SV2 and exporting, opening evidence in new tab and a favourites indicator.
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.
New PebblePad releases for February 2024 include a favourite function, and an improvement to comments and iconography.
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.
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).
New PebblePad releases for January 2024 include submission versioning and navigation improvements.
The January update brings some improvements to assessment tools (including the introduction of a Test attempt log), changes to conditional release functionality, and Gradebook.
The December update brings some improvements to the Gradebook and assessment tools. Support for adding images via the content editor is also expanded.
User experience improvements released.
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.
Labster, our 3D laboratory training software, now has a custom quiz editor added to its simulation platform.
New release includes rich content editor going live.
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.
A new 'flexible grading' interface is now available for Blackboard Test and Assignment.
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.
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.
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.
Improvements to PebblePad this month include: PDFs now viewable directly within PebblePad; Activity Log and Collections features now enable a specific tempate as the criteria - this template will automatically be reportable on, without the need to create an assignment for it.
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.
31 accessibility improvements to PebblePad
A summary of key Minerva updates made since summer 2022 is now available.
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.
PebblePad releases new features inluding ability to report on data saved in tables.
The May update to Minerva introduces improvements to Gradebook, Tests, drag and drop functionality, editing options for LTI assessments (e.g. Turnitin) and Ally.
PebblePad will be updated on the 2nd May and will include several new features
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.
PebblePad will be updated on the 30th March and will include several new features.
Last month, we saw improvements and new features being added to a number of digital education systems.
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.
PebblePad will be updated on the 28th February and will include several new features.
The issue with navigating between Group Assignment Submissions in Minerva has been resolved.
Turnitin have updated the default class expiry date to twelve months
Turnitin have made improvements to the submission interface to accommodate use of smaller screens.
Turnitin have made improvements to the assignment inbox.
The February update to Minerva brings improvements to Tests, Gradebook, Progress Tracking and Groups.
Gradescope new Section Management features provide options for customising and managing assignments for module groups
On Tuesday 31st of January 2023, there will be 10 minutes of potential downtime between 7am and 7:30am whilst PebblePad update their software.
The January update to Minerva introduces updates to Messages, Tests, Gradebook and Discussions.
On Monday 12th December, there will be 10 minutes of potential downtime from 7am whilst PebblePad implement their latest release.
The December update to Minerva introduces updates to drag and drop, reporting on student progress, question banks, and more, along with a new anticipated feature: module links.
The November update to Minerva introduces updates to Tests, Gradebook and content items.
On Monday 31st October there will be 30 minutes of potential downtime from 7 am whilst PebblePad implement their latest release.
The October update to Minerva introduces the staff view of progress tracking functionality in Ultra Course View modules. There also improvements to Tests and the rendering of Math Formulas.