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

Top Hat will undergo scheduled maintenance on Sunday 21 April 2024, from 7.00am - 10.00am GMT.

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.

Top Hat will undergo scheduled maintenance on Sunday 17 March 2024, from 7.00am - 10.00am GMT.

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.

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.

Top Hat will undergo scheduled maintenance on Sunday 18 February 2024, from 7.00am - 10.00am GMT.

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.

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.

New PebblePad releases for January 2024 include submission versioning and navigation improvements.

There is a known issue with the Turnitin copy assignment feature which is causing users to see an error when attempting to copy multiple assignments.

Find out how the SimVenture business simulation tool can help you with your learning and teaching at our session taking place on Thursday 18 January.

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 current method used to access Turnitin assignments in Minerva modules from 2021/22 and earlier is no longer available. Turnitin is working on a solution...

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.

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

Some Academic Personal Tutors may be unable to login to StREAM@Leeds. They may notice the screen flashing when they attempt to do so.

Turnitin will undergo a 30-minute scheduled maintenance period on Saturday 18 November 2023.

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.

LinkedIn Learning’s old access link in Minerva is being retired on 31st December 2023, and content that has been added to Minerva using this method will no longer work after this date.

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.

Following on from the service disruption first reported on Monday, 2nd of October, scheduled lecture recordings should now automatically start as expected.

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.

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

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

Find out how you can get involved in the 2023/24 Noteable computational notebook pilot.

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.

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.

Attend our Noteable computational notebook information event on 6 September and find out about taking part in our 2023/24 Noteable pilot.

Academic Personal Tutors who would like to learn about the systems that support APT meetings can benefit from attending the APT Essentials course running in 2023/24.

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 planned upgrade work to move Banner to a cloud-based platform will take place tomorrow, learn how this might affect you.

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

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