News of new developments across digital education systems, software upgrades or updates, along with any associated maintenance and downtime are shared here - and summarised on the Downtime and Maintenance page to help you keep track. The official Twitter account for IT at the University of Leeds, @ITServicesUoL is also recommended for service status updates, along with the service status page on the IT website.
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Are you responsible for creating learning materials, website content or digital documents? Find out how you can get involved in Global Accessibility Awareness Day on 16 May by making your digital content more accessible.
Find out how you can use the blogging tool CampusPress as part of your learning and teaching practices.
When editing the title or description of a Learning Module in Minerva, staff may experience a delay for the page to load.
Top Hat will undergo scheduled maintenance on Sunday 21 April 2024, from 7.00am - 10.00am GMT.
The April update introduces improvements to Blackboard Tests and Assignments, Discussions, Learning Modules, Gradebook Calculations, Conditional Availability, Forms and Batch Edit functionality.
Turnitin will undergo a five-hour maintenance window between 15:00 to 20:00 GMT on Saturday 16 March 2024.
The University, and the IT Service Desk, will be closed between Thursday 28 March and Tuesday 2 April 2024 inclusive.
New PebblePad releases for March 2024 includes improvements to SV2 and exporting, opening evidence in new tab and a favourites indicator.
There is a known issue with the Password Reset Feature on Athena TDM and learners will see an error message when attempting to reset their password.
Top Hat will undergo scheduled maintenance on Sunday 17 March 2024, from 7.00am - 10.00am GMT.
From 11 March as part of the the Stream (Classic) video migration project, videos owned by individual users will be moved from Stream (Classic) into Stream (On SharePoint).
Staff who wish to request a change to the owner of a Mediasite lecture capture or recording are advised to refer to guidance on the IT website for who to contact.
The March update introduces updates to the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Design Assistant, Gradebook, Blackboard Assignments/Tests and Announcements.
Interested in business simulation tools? Join Nicola Smith, Associate Professor at Leeds University Business School, for an online demonstration of SimVenture Evolution in Practice.
Turnitin will undergo a four-hour maintenance window between 14:00 to 18:00 GMT on Saturday 16 March 2024.
Our supplier has identified the issue and a fix has been applied to resolve the issue.
New PebblePad releases for February 2024 include a favourite function, and an improvement to comments and iconography.
A decision has been made to discontinue our use of Top Hat, which means that you won’t be able to host assessments, active learning, or polls on this platform from September 2024.
For anonymous Tests with questions that need to be graded e.g. Essay questions, it is possible for feedback to disappear from the Gradebook during the grading process if a specific workflow is used.
Top Hat will undergo scheduled maintenance on Sunday 18 February 2024, from 7.00am - 10.00am GMT.
The first phase of the migration began on February 5th 2024 and has now been completed. Learn more about what the team or working on and how this affects your Stream content.
Find out how you can get involved in our CampusPress blogging pilot.
Discover how you can use Minerva's AI Design Assistant to help with the creation of content within your module areas.
The February update introduces a new tool for gathering information/surveying students (Forms) and improvements to the flexible grading interface and recording tool.
Microsoft announced that they are retiring Stream (Classic) in June 2024. In preparation, IT are migrating all published video content (circa 180,000 videos) from Stream (Classic) into Stream (on SharePoint).
Are you curious to learn more about student perspectives of academic personal tutoring (APT)? This session will explore academic personal tutoring through the student lens and is available to all colleagues.
New PebblePad releases for January 2024 include submission versioning and navigation improvements.
There is a known issue with the Turnitin copy assignment feature which is causing users to see an error when attempting to copy multiple assignments.
Find out how the SimVenture business simulation tool can help you with your learning and teaching at our session taking place on Thursday 18 January.
There will be a four hour maintenance window taking place on the Turnitin system on Saturday 27 January 2024.
The January update brings some improvements to assessment tools (including the introduction of a Test attempt log), changes to conditional release functionality, and Gradebook.
Turnitin was affected by a service degradation on which may have affected some users accessing Turnitin.
The current method used to access Turnitin assignments in Minerva modules from 2021/22 and earlier is no longer available. Turnitin is working on a solution...
The University, and the IT Service Desk, will be closed between Friday 22 December and Monday 1 January 2024. Find out how you can get IT support during this period.
Gradescope was affected by a service degradation on which may have affected some users accessing Gradescope.
Scheduled Minerva maintenance will take place Tuesday 12th December between 1:00 and 2:00AM (GMT). My Leeds page will be inaccessible, all other parts of Minerva will be unaffected.
The December update brings some improvements to the Gradebook and assessment tools. Support for adding images via the content editor is also expanded.
Gradescope have advised that the issues that affecting some users when accessing Gradescope have been resolved.
Users of Gradescope may be experiencing issues when accessing the service due to an unexpected service issue.
Top Hat will undergo scheduled maintenance on Thursday 28 December 2023, from 14:00pm GMT until Saturday 30 December 2023 02:00am GMT. During this period Top Hat will not be available.
User experience improvements released.
From the end of 2023 MathJax content added to Minerva will no longer render. This will typically affect modules from 21/22 and earlier.
Some Academic Personal Tutors may be unable to login to StREAM@Leeds. They may notice the screen flashing when they attempt to do so.
Microsoft have advised that issues accessing Microsoft 365 services have been resolved.
Microsoft have reported an issue where some users may have trouble accessing Microsoft 365 services.
PebblePad was affected by an issue at approximately 11.30am on 6 November, which resulted in users experiencing saving and login difficulties.
Turnitin will undergo a 30-minute scheduled maintenance period on Saturday 18 November 2023.
The November update brings some improvements to the content editor (for adding images), the Gradebook and Assessment tools, and a new feature in Turnitin allowing assignment settings to be copied. A known issue relating to progress tracking is also resolved.
The Turnitin issues reported earlier today have been resolved. Staff and students should be able to access Turnitin as normal.
Users may be unable to access Turnitin. Turnitin are aware and are working to restore the service to optimal levels.