Tweet As you may have seen after logging into LearnUCS, the mobile version is now available from various app stores. The software is developed by Blackboard, and not UCS. Therefore, we don’t have any control over the features and functionality. However, we’d suggest the mobile version is getting better over time, and hope to see [...]
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During the 2010/2011 academic year, the service will aim to:
- Evaluate the effective use of the WOLSEY (Blackboard) VLE in learning and teaching at the University Campus Suffolk
- Foster the emergence of a community of practice around the use of Wolsey
- Capture and disseminate good practice in the use of Wolsey at the University Campus Suffolk
- Provide a fit for purpose VLE (Blackboard) Service at the University Campus Suffolk
The following link enables you to see the latest state of the service, Wolsey Known Issues
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SafeAssign for plagiarism checking is available
AndyR 
September 3rd, 2012 Tweet Blackboard have informed us we can now roll out the SafeAssign Plagiarism checking tool for student submissions. This coincides with the roll out of the new online submission process for UCS Ipswich where the lecturer needs to liaise with their Course Administrator to manage student submissions and plagiarism checking. The new process involves improving [...]
LearnUCS: Enrolments for 12/13 released
AndyR August 29th, 2012 Tweet For your information, the enrolments for the 12/13 academic year have been released. As you are aware, these enrolments are driven by the student record system. Therefore, if you have any questions about enrolments, either students are on, or are not on the correct course, the best starting place is a quick chat with [...]
Online submission, Safe Assign & LearnUCS
AndyR August 20th, 2012 Tweet We have been in contact with Blackboard to discuss our SafeAssign issues. The current situation is they are working on the solution and we are waiting for a resolution. They have not been helpful in terms of giving us a timeframe. As mentioned in previous updates this is not just affecting on UCS. The [...]
LearnUCS – Release of 2012/13 Modules
AaronB August 9th, 2012 Tweet Just a quick update to the upgrade/migration of LearnUCS. We have now released the 2012/13 modules, these are available for lecturers to request access to. This can be done in the same way as previously, filling in the form located at the following link: Request Module Enrolment The form request is sent to your [...]
Tags: Wolsey – LearnUCS upgrade project: what you need to know
AndyR July 17th, 2012 Tweet As most people are aware we will be undertaking the LearnUCS (Blackboard) upgrade and migration project during the week starting the 30th July, 2012. This will involve taking a copy of the last two years worth of material on Wolsey, and moving it to the new hosting service provided by Blackboard. Once the material [...]
Do you use wikis, blogs or podcasts in Wolsey? If yes, read this about LearnUCS (BUMP 5)
AndyR June 15th, 2012 Tweet As you are aware we’ll be upgrading to a new version of Blackboard (LearnUCS) at the start of August. As part of this upgrade we will be simplifying the way we provide and support Wikis, Blogs and Podcasts within your Blackboard courses. At the moment we support both the Blackboard and Learning Object tool [...]
Limited Elevate Support – Friday 8th June
David Mullett June 7th, 2012 Tweet The Elevate Team will be running a limited support structure on Friday the 8th June, due to annual leave and visits to the Higher Education Academy workshop around managing the online assessment and feedback process from an institutional perspective, support will be limited to E-Mails only. We will endeavour to pick up any urgent support requests [...]
LearnUCS: Staff webinar series to get you started (BUMP Announcement 4)
AndyR May 25th, 2012 Tweet The Elevate Team will be running a number of short (20 minute) webinars for teaching staff at UCS designed to help them get started with the new software. These sessions will cover both the efficiency gains and the learning and teaching enhancements offered by the new system. We’ll also cover an update on timings [...]
Would you like to try LearnUCS? BUMP: ANNOUNCEMENT 3
AndyR May 16th, 2012 Tweet I’m glad to say the testing is progressing well with the upgrade and the migration, ad we are on track for an upgrade at the start of August. The next stage is to start testing the emerging migration path. However, there are a couple of tasks you might want to do: Invite one of [...]
