Tweet As you are aware, the Elevate Team will be supporting staff with their module inductions to Wolsey. This is through a set of FAQs, and a short introductory video (http://www.showme.com/sh/?i=23089). If you’d like to discuss your student module induction needs please email us at elevate@ucs.ac.uk.
Posts for the ‘Wolsey’ Category
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
Student Induction Video: Getting to know Wolsey at UCS: An absolute beginners guide
AndyR 
August 18th, 2011 
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Student user accounts re-enabled
AndyR August 18th, 2011 Tweet For your information, the student accounts on Wolsey have been re-enabled. We are working with IT to reduce the likelihood of this occurring again. We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused, as Blackboard was unavailable for students upto 1.00 pm this afternoon. If you have any questions, please email us at elevate@ucs.ac.uk
Wolsey, Student Enrollments & SafeAssign Gradebook
AndyR August 18th, 2011 Tweet I’d just like to add a little more detail around an earlier blog post. As mentioned, a feed file failed last night which disabled student accounts in Wolsey. ITS have manually enabled these accounts, however, there are likely to be some consequences as some students maybe missed, will take time to work through the [...]
FYI – Users on Wolsey: Not syncing from SITS
AndyR August 18th, 2011 Tweet This is a quick heads up, you may find you student enrollment on Blackboard (Wolsey) courses is out of sync by 24 hours. This is due to the sync between SITS, AD and Blackboard not occurring last night. This should be rectified this evening. We’ll keep you posted.
Annual Rollover Update
AaronB August 2nd, 2011 Tweet Just a quick update on the progress of the annual rollover, a day late, apologies for that. Everything has gone very well, all 11/12 modules pulled through from SITS, staff rollover of enrolments has happened. There appear to have been a small number of staff not having their enrolments copied across, but we have [...]
Tags: Ready for the Annual Rollover
AaronB July 28th, 2011 Tweet The Wolsey Summer Plan is progressing well, we are on schedule to have everything completed for the deadline of Monday 1st August. Tomorrow, Friday 29th will see us start the process of importing all new 2011/12 moules in to Wolsey, we will then run the final process of the staff enrolment rollover, automatically adding [...]
Wolsey Summer Plan
AaronB July 15th, 2011 Tweet 2011/12 will see a number of changes to the way Wolsey is used at UCS. Wolsey is built upon the Blackboard Learn platform and UCS currently has the complete suite of 3 systems, they are: Learning Community Content Collection We will be moving to an installation of just the Learning system, removing the Community [...]
WSAAG – A successful start
AaronB May 24th, 2011 Tweet Monday 23rd May saw the inaugural meeting of the Wolsey System Admin Advisory Group at the Waterfront Building. We had seven attendees for the meeting, two members from Academic Services, one from UCS Bury, one from UCS Great Yarmouth and the three of us from the Elevate Team. The agenda for the meeting was: Welcome [...]
Inaugural Wolsey System Admin Advisory Group
AaronB May 18th, 2011 Tweet The Elevate Team are pleased to be able to announce that the inaugural meeting of the Wolsey System Admin Advisory group will be held on Monday 23 May 2011 at 11:00am in the Waterfront Building. This is the first of the Elevate run advisory groups to meet, we are hoping that a more open [...]
How do we use Blackboard in Teaching and Learning at UCS?
AndyR February 17th, 2011 Tweet As part of the VLE review, I’ve undertaken a short review of how we are currently using Blackboard at UCS in our teaching and learning. This is a preliminary review on assessing the methodology (sample size is 91 or 8.4% of current (2010/11) active Blackboard modules). It will be repeated to include a much [...]
