Blackboard for External Examiners

What is Blackboard?

• Content Repository

• Collaboration Spaces

• Staff & Student Communication Tools

• Assessment Creation/Management Tools

• Used at SHU since 2001

• Supports 95%-97% of modules

How do People Get Access?

• Tutors

– Request enrolment onto module site(s)

• Students

– Automatically enrolled

• External Examiners

– Manually enrolled by Module Leaders

How are Module Sites Structured?

• Organised as content areas and links to

other tools

• Created with a template layout

• Student access to materials and activities

can be restricted

Where are Assessment Marks Held?

• Grade Centre

– Table format

– Can add weighted total columns, averages, etc.

– Supports audio, video and text-based feedback

– Students have private view of their (provisional)

marks

Turnitin

• Available for any module

• Used on some modules

– Plagiarism checking only

– Marking features not used

Login details - in email from Ruth Feather

Demonstration

• Access Blackboard through SHUSpace:

https://shuspace.shu.ac.uk/

then click the login button at the top left

• Or, go directly to login page at

https://shuspace.shu.ac.uk/webapps/login?action=relogin