We will re-enable the automated enrolment of students onto Blackboard courses from Tuesday 15th September. Once this has been switched on you will no longer be able to remove last year's students from your courses, so please try to recycle your c

If you are resitting exams but can't see the courses you need on Blackboard you will be able to access them from our backup service:wwwdev.ole.bris.ac.ukLog in using your university username and password.

Once you have downloaded the assignments from the Gradecentre you may want to remove the small text files that are contained in the zipped archive and rename your file.Download and save the zip file to your desktopRight click on it to rename it (if n

We are happy to say that Blackboard is now back. Apologies again for the disruption this has caused you. 

The work to resolve the current problems with Blackboard may mean you are unable to log into the service for a short time. Apologies for the disruption this may cause you.

We have been made aware of problems on Blackboard this morning, specifically when you try to open a course. IS teams are investigating. I will post when we have more information.

We are running a series of demonstrations and training sessions on what's new in Blackboard to help you get the most of the new gradecentre and self and peer assessment tools. A series of short *lunchbyte* presentations will be run throughout Aug

The testing of Blackboard has been completed and the service is now fully functional. Due to the significant nature of the work undertaken we will be tuning Blackboard over the coming weeks to hone its performance. If you encounter any issues or prob

Final testing of Blackboard is currently taking place, we hope to have a full service available by 12 noon today. Please use the service but do not change or add data until our checks are complete. We will be finished by 12 noon today. This down

Blackboard will be unavailable from 9 am on Monday August 3rd to 9 am on Thursday August 6th. The aim of this work is to ensure that our Blackboard service is more able to cope with the significantly increased demands being placed upon it.  We h

Blackboard will be unavailable from 9 am on Monday August 3rd to 9 am on Thursday August 6th. The aim of this work is to ensure that our Blackboard service is more able to cope with the significantly increased demands being placed upon it.  We h

Blackboard has been available and fully functional since just before 1 pm on Friday, however over the weekend there was a problem accessing Blackboard via the portal. We apologise for the disruption this may have caused you. We are working with the p

We are very happy to be able to let you know that Blackboard is now back and fully functional after the upgrade to version 8. Please accept our apologies for the delay in restoring the service.If you would like any additional information please email

As we are approaching the end of the academic year, please consider when you plan to archive and recycle your Blackboard courses. It is the responsibility of course lecturers to archive (save a copy of) their course, or arrange for a departmental ad

Blackboard will be unavailable from Tuesday 14th July at 5 pm until Thursday 16th July at 5 pm. This is for our annual essential upgrade of the core Blackboard software. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If you are a 4th year medical

Go to the discussion forum (either via the list of fora in Communication / Discussion board or via the content area which links to the forum).Click on the forum title to enter.To create a new thread click the Add New Thread button Enter your message

Adding a Word document or PowerPoint presentation to a Blackboard course Open the Control Panel (option on the left hand side of the page)Open the Content Area where you want to upload the document e.g. Course documentsOpen your folderChos

Powerpoint does not always automatically open when you click the link to the file in Blackboard. Simply save the file and then open it.

To make your course available:Open the Control PanelClick SettingsSelect Course availabilitySelect YesSubmit

Blackboard discussion boards now allow you to subscribe to a thread and receive email notification of any updates or changes to it.Open the forumEnter the threadClick Subscribe 

Students can easily check whether an assignment has been successfully submitted to Blackboard without needing to contact course administrators or Blackboard support. There are several ways to check that a document has been uploaded, one is by using M

Discussion board: each Blackboard course contains a Discussion board area.It lists all the discussions or fora. It can be accessed from Communications / Discussion Board Forum: a forum is just an area that has been set up to house a set of discu

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The Blackboard login problem has been fixed. Apologies for the disruption.

We have a problem accessing Blackboard from using the main *single sign on* at www.ole.bris.ac.uk.  We can still give you emergency access to Blackboard via a temporary password while this problem is diagnosed. For more information please email