Make a difference to eLearning developments

18 Jul 2012

Get your voice heard

Did you know you can submit your proposals for changes or enhancements to either Turnitin or Blackboard?

For Turnitin (online submission, plagiarism detection and marking including Grademark):

1. From within Blackboard go to Turnitin
2. Click Feedback (top right)
3. Click Go to Feedback Forum
4. From here you can type in your suggestion. You can also view and vote for suggestions put forward by your colleagues / people from other institutions.

For Blackboard

1. Search for ‘Blackboard suggestions’ in Google or go direct to Blackboard Feedback, Learn Product Suggestion Box
2. Fill in the form and Submit

If you and your colleagues have a shared view about changes and enhancements, it’s worth each of you submitting your thoughts separately.

There are a number of other ways to contribute to and take part in developing and testing Blackboard e.g. focus groups.  All of these opportunities are publicised via the internal Blackboard Users Mailing List.

You can join the list by visiting Blackboard users

This list is for Blackboard user support at Manchester.  For service availability and updates, see Staffnet.

You can also get your voice heard by letting us know about:

• issues you bring up with your eLearning team and via your Teaching and Learning Committees
• reviewing specific requests for change using the Change Management Process

We’re currently working on ways to ensure priorities, current changes and developments are more widely communicated to users and we’ll be in touch with more information as soon as possible.

For more information please contact your eLearning team elearning@manchester.ac.uk