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Microsoft has provisionally rolled out premium Teams features to all Microsoft users (not just the University of Leeds) for a grace period.

China Connect is being upgraded between 9am and 12 noon on Tuesday, 14 March. Users should experience minimal impact.

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

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.

Some staff are seeing an error message when using the Gradebook Grid View Filter.

Students who receive straight-away email notifications from Minerva are incorrectly receiving "mark cleared" notifications from Turnitin submissions.

Within this article you’ll find a background to the Minerva project, a reminder about module content rollover for the 2023/24 academic year, and an opportunity to provide feedback to the Minerva Project Team.

The issue preventing users from logging onto Top Hat has been resolved.

Extra credit option in Tests to be disabled in March.

If you're interested in developing your digital experience and skills, the Jisc Discovery Tool can help.

The issue affecting Turnitin has now been resolved.

There is an unexpected service issue and users of Turnitin may be experiencing system issues which may have resulted in slowness in generating Similarity Reports.

Minerva Messages are being incorrectly emailed to people with inactive enrolments in Minerva modules and organisations.

From 20 February you will no longer have the choice to upload new videos to Stream (Classic).

Due to an unexpected service degradation on Sunday 5th February, users of Turnitin may have experienced issues with access via the Minerva integration.

Some users may have experienced issues joining sessions today, if you are experiencing issues, refreshing your browser can help.

There is an intermittent issue, which is affecting some users, where a grade entered in the Turnitin Feedback Studio is not being posted to the module Gradebook in Minerva.

Frequent visitors to this site may notice it looks a little different following a recent update focusing on improving
the browsing experience for users with visual impairments.

Some Collaborate recordings made on the 18th of January may not contain whiteboard content shared during the session

The issue affecting Turnitin has now been resolved.

There is an unexpected service issue and users of Turnitin may be experiencing system issues.

When using the arrows to move back and forth between group assignment submissions from the Gradebook, the submission file does not update, making it seem that the groups all submitted the same file.

Turnitin has scheduled maintenance from Saturday 14th January 2023, 17:00 to Sunday 15th January 01:00 GMT

The issue affecting Minerva Class Teams is now resolved.

Staff are currently unable to create new Minerva Class Teams via Minerva modules and organisations. Direct links to Minerva Class Teams are also not displaying in Minerva at present.

Colleagues in OD&PL are offering PebblePad training sessions week commencing the 9th of January 2023.

Gradescope has scheduled maintenance from Saturday 14th January 2023, 17:00 to Sunday 15th January 01:00 GMT. During this period there will be interrupted service.

Discover how to set up a PebblePad workspace and assignment from a Minerva module or organisation, allowing the capture of your Minerva student cohort and enable grades to pass back to the Minerva Gradebook

Explore some of the integrated assistive technology of the Office 365 package. This includes, Teams, Word and PowerPoint This remote event is open to all students and staff.

Top Hat has scheduled maintenance on the 27th of November from 06:00 to 09:00 AM. During this maintenance window, Top Hat will be unavailable to all users.

The issue affecting display of the Turnitin submission inbox has now been resolved, due to the vendor applying a fix. Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused as a result of this issue.

New and experienced academic personal tutors may be interested in the session on how to build authentic tutor/tutee relationships.

There appears to be an issue with the page trying to resize inbox columns when it is above a certain pixel size. Colleagues may see the inbox window rapidly flickering and will be unable to unable open any of the submissions.

To resolve an issue where some staff users have reported that they are not able to see the Microsoft Teams link in Minerva modules, the vendor will be carrying out maintenance.

There is a known issue affecting the roster sync of students between Minerva modules and the Turnitin assignment inbox. Staff may see the following error message when attempting to open the assignment inbox. "The membership service encountered some errors. Click here for details Error fetching memberships URL" The issue may affect assignment in modules where...

Top Hat has scheduled maintenance on the following dates and times: September 25, 2022 from 06:00am - 09:00am GMT October 2, 2022 from 06:00am - 09:00am GMT October 9, 2022 from 06:00am - 09:00am GMT During this maintenance window, Top Hat will be unavailable to all users. If you have any questions please contact the...

Staff can now create Microsoft Class Teams directly within Minerva Ultra Course View modules and organisations.

The new LeedsforLife systems – PebblePad, StREAM@Leeds and Microsoft Bookings with me – will support APT in their roles. There are currently three training options available.

Information on resources and support to assist staff and students in the transition to Minerva Ultra Course View.

The next series of PebblePad training sessions start week commencing the 5 September

Gradescope have introduced a new look to the Create Assignment workflow. Create Assignments has moved to a separate page to provide instructors more screen space and allow more space for upcoming section management features. Gradescope guidance has been updated to reflect this change.

Top Hat has updated the navigation header for all staff and students. All functionalities of the old header remain, this update is for a fresh new look! Old Top Hat Header: New Top Hat Header: The biggest change to note is the location of the Course Settings and the Add Educator button no longer sits...

The issue affecting Grade Centre columns for Turnitin assignments in Original Course View (21/22 modules and earlier) first reported in July and resulting in the column being un-hidden from students after making changes to the assignment settings within the Turnitin interface has been resolved.

Since the new LeedsforLife systems (PebblePad, StREAM and MS Bookings) were launched in autumn 2021, many of you have been in touch to tell us about some changes you’d like to see.

The unexpected service issue affecting Turnitin has now been resolved.

Turnitin have reported an unexpected service incident issue with their service. For continued updates, you can track the issue using Turnitin’s service status: https://turnitin.statuspage.io/

Saving Turnitin assignment settings causes an issue where the Grade Centre column is made visible. Please be aware when saving Turnitin settings while a fix is being developed.

Turnitin will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance from midnight to 8am (BST) on 9 July. You can find out further details via Turnitin's service status page

To resolve an issue where data feeds did not run on the 24 June, the vendor will be carrying out maintenance.

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