Minerva Monthly Update - April 2024
...information, read our guide on creating Discussions in Minerva. Learning Modules - persistent navigation To improve students' navigation in a learning module, the navigation bar has been updated. Now it...
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...information, read our guide on creating Discussions in Minerva. Learning Modules - persistent navigation To improve students' navigation in a learning module, the navigation bar has been updated. Now it...
The latest Minerva update brings improved support for device accessibility settings, now recognising reduced motion settings for Windows, Mac OS, iOS and Android devices. Minerva uses several animated elements such...
...Top Hat course with your Minerva module. This will import all the students from Minerva into your Top Hat course. You will need to be an instructor on the Minerva...
...Minerva. Once grades have been returned to Minerva, it shows the incorrect date they were returned. Students will see the correct submission date if they progress to the Turnitin/Gradescope interface...
...assessment item e.g. it will be flagged whether there are submissions waiting to be graded. This is most useful for graded Minerva Discussions, Minerva Journals and Blackboard Tests and Assignments....
What’s happening? We have had reports from some users of 404 or resource not found errors when opening files on Minerva. What are we doing about it? We have escalated...
Minerva will be unavailable for approximately 1 minute on Friday 7th January at 3am (GMT) for essential maintenance. We have been in discussion with the vendor who recommended this short...
What’s happening? There is an ongoing issue with data extracts from Minerva, beginning January 8th. This is limited to the following services. Academic Integrity Test results – recent results have...
The issue reported on 27th January with data extracts from Minerva of Academic Integrity Test results, Reading Lists updates, and Security Essentials Training results has now been resolved....
This issue has now been resolved. If you are still having issues, please contact the IT Service Desk. What happened? Some users have been experiencing issues opening files on Minerva...
Minerva is currently experiencing performance issues. We have escalated this with the vendor as a matter of urgency. Please accept our sincere apologies for this issue with the service. We...
On Tuesday 22 February Minerva experienced issues from approximately 16:05-16:45. A second related incident occurred at 18:20-18:30, although users may have noticed slow performance immediately after this time period. Our...
The Grades page in Minerva brings together all of your grading activity into one place. It offers a quick way to access marking across all modules, this is your view...
...the View Discussion performance, on Blackboard's website. Watch - Discussion Analytics Learn how to access Discussion analysis from within Minerva (1.12 minutes). Related Guides Create Discussions Posting and replying to...
Minerva will be unavailable for up to 30 minutes on Friday 13th May at 3am (BST) for essential maintenance. We have been in discussion with the vendor who recommended this...
Minerva will be unavailable for up to 30 minutes on Saturday 14th May at 3am (BST) for essential maintenance. This was originally planned for Friday 13th May at 3am, but...
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. We have escalated this with...
Minerva will be unavailable for up to 30 minutes on Tuesday 14th June at 3am (BST) for essential maintenance required to restore normal capacity following the end of the assessment...
...advised that this will result in release conditions being removed. Click Continue to confirm your request. Related Guides Using Conditional Availability to release content in Minerva Make a module available/unavailable...
...in Minerva so that the members of the Group can collaborate and communicate within their Group. Your tutor may either: assign you to a Group allow you to join the...
The August update to Minerva introduces new features and improvements to existing functionality with a focus on Tests. New features Tests You can now create Question Banks and edit/delete questions...
The September update to Minerva introduces new features and improvements to existing functionality with a focus on assessment and accessibility features. New features Assessment Grade overrides are now included in...
A recent Minerva update now means you can create Groups Sets and add members via CSV upload. Please see our guide which details the CSV upload process....
The October update to Minerva introduces the staff view of progress tracking functionality in Ultra Course View modules. There are also improvements to Tests and the rendering of Math Formulas....
The intermittent issue affecting the file upload procedure within Minerva has now been resolved, due to our vendor applying an overnight fix. Please accept our sincere apologies for any disruption...
...sequence. When copying content between modules you can't copy links for Documents and LTIs. Add a Module/Organisation Link Navigate to the area in Minerva where you want students to view...
...page, which features the usual text-editing functions commonly found when editing Minerva content. Note that when viewing a student's attempt for a Discussion or Journal, you will need to click...
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. The...
The February update to Minerva brings improvements to Tests, Gradebook, Progress Tracking and Groups. New Features and Improvements Tests The Hot Spot question now has the option to create a...
The DE Systems Team has identified an issue with emailed messages sent in Minerva modules and organisations to All students or All instructors. This issue does not occur when sending...
...Your name isn't on the list". When you click the close option you are taken out of the module and back to your list of modules on Minerva. We have...
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. New Features and Improvements Assessment...
We have been advised that there is an issue which may intermittently affect staff and students using Minerva. What is the issue? You may find content fails to load, or...
Our supplier has advised that the issue causing staff and students to intermittently see errors with content loading in Minerva is now resolved. The nature of the issue means some...
We have been advised that an issue reported yesterday, which may intermittently affect staff and students using Minerva, may not be resolved for all users. What is the issue? You...
The issue where Minerva messages were incorrectly sent to people with inactive enrolments has been resolved by the vendor. Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused as a...
The May update to Minerva introduces improvements to Gradebook, Tests, drag and drop functionality, editing options for LTI assessments (e.g. Turnitin) and Ally. New Features and Improvements Gradebook Send messages...
Minerva will be unavailable for up to 30 minutes on Thursday 18th May between 5:30am and 06:30am (BST) for essential maintenance. This short downtime period is required to apply a...
The June update to Minerva introduces improvements to Tests and Module Links. The link to Announcements has been moved to the top navigation bar and Learning Modules now include an...
Minerva will be unavailable for up to 30 minutes on Thursday 15th June between 5:30am and 06:30am (BST) for essential maintenance. This short downtime period is required to restore normal...
The Recording tool can be used to create recordings directly within Minerva. Recordings can include both video and audio, or can be audio-only. Each recording has a maximum length of...
We have been advised of an issue in Minerva where Progress Tracking is not working for Web Link content. Web links can be identified in the module content by the...
...using Blackboard Assignment. Staff may also want to utilise the recently released Recording tool which can be used to create an audio and video, or audio-only recording, directly in Minerva....
To resolve the issue of inaccuracies with the membership of groups (specifically made for communications) within School and Faculty organisations, the groups have been removed from Minerva and reinstated with...
Staff and students may be unable to access Minerva. The issue began at approximately 10:20 this morning. We have escalated this to our vendor who is currently working to fix...