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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.
Extra credit option in Tests to be disabled in March.
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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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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
Turnitin has introduced new functionality where Grade Centre columns are unhidden when the Feedback Release Date is reached.
From the 27th of June, all users will notice that Microsoft Teams meeting recordings are no longer automatically saved to Microsoft Stream, they will be saved to the either OneDrive or SharePoint. The way you create, start, and take part in Teams meetings will not change. Essentially, this change affects: Where a meeting recording is...
Minerva will be unavailable for up to 30 minutes on Tuesday 14th June at 3am (BST) for essential maintenance.
The University’s Reading List tool is changing ahead of the 2022/23 academic year. Support sessions and demos are available for tutors to update their reading lists using the new system. The new Leeds Reading List system is available in Minerva Ultra from Thursday 9 June, with all previous reading lists transferred over to the new system....
Ultra Course View modules will be available from Thursday 9 June, along with support to assist in the transition over the summer period.
Information about the upcoming move to Ultra Course View, with details on training resources and support.
Resolved - Minerva issues reported 17 May
In an attempt to resolve the recent issues with Minerva, our vendor will apply a fix overnight. The fix will be applied on Wednesday 25 May 02:00-05:00 BST.
Combined student and assessor-initiated submissions to be added to PebblePad.
Minerva is continuing to experience performance issues. In an attempt to resolve these issues, our vendor will apply a fix overnight. The fix will be applied on Saturday 21 May 02:00-05:00 BST.
Minerva is currently experiencing performance issues affecting Activity Stream, content copying and emails from announcements.
As reported on 17 May, Minerva is currently experiencing performance issues. The Activity Stream is not loading and staff may experience issues copying content between or within modules and organisations. To resolve these issues, our vendor will apply a fix overnight.