Some instructors and students are facing sporadic issues navigating to and viewing Peermark reviews in Turnitin. Users unable to view or navigate between peer reviews. Please ensure you are accessing feedback correctly (feedback how-to video for students here) and contact us if the reviews are still unavailable.
Customizing the Blackboard Grade Center
Need to align your Grade Center with your course syllabus? Learn how to create columns, weight grades, and adjust your schema with CIT’s Blackboard Advanced: Setting Up the Grade Center YouTube video.
Midterm Grades due March 5 at Midnight
Midterm grades are due 3/5 at 11:59 p.m. Instructors are required to submit midterm grades for all 100- and 200-level courses. Midterm grading should be used to submit grades assigned for non-attendance.
Helpful Grading Info
Zoom with Closed Captioning and Live Transcripts
Zoom live transcription is now available for UA Zoom accounts! This can be enabled by the host, and any participants can view the captioning as needed. Live transcription only supports English. To enable captioning, sign into the Zoom web portal and edit In Meeting (Advanced) Settings.
Resolved: The Blackboard Learn course list in myBama is not currently directing users to Blackboard successfully.
To access Blackboard Learn courses from myBama, select More at the top of the screen and choose Blackboard. Users can also log in to Blackboard Learn directly at ualearn.blackboard.com using myBama credentials.
Blackboard Collaborate Ultra will be performing scheduled infrastructure maintenance during the times listed below.
While we anticipate no interruption in service as a result of the work, we cannot entirely rule out short periods of intermittent connectivity during this maintenance window.
Scheduled Maintenance, February 13, 2021: Video Recording Feedback in Blackboard Learn Assignment Grading
Instructors can record video feedback to students as they are grading assignments in Learn courses. This recording feature is provided by some subcomponents of Blackboard Collaborate. Those components require maintenance over a window of a maximum of 3 hours on Saturday, February 13, 2021. Video Feedback recording may be unavailable during this time.
Update 7pm –
This outage has been resolved. More information is available on the Zoom status website: https://status.zoom.us/incidents/c9ycgpsdfzgb.
Zoom is investigating reports from a subset of users that they are unable to access the Zoom website and/or are having issues starting/joining meetings. Zoom recommends any impacted users dial into their meetings while the issue is being investigated. It appears to be a network related issue, possibly related to Verizon. Track Zoom’s progress on the issue here – https://status.zoom.us/
Using Panopto in Safari Reminder
Safari users may need to make a settings adjustment if prompted to log into Blackboard when accessing a course. We have step-by-step guidance on our website. This setting can also affect other Blackboard content, such as RedShelf or publisher content.
Zoom Airplay Issue
Our teams are investigating an issue where some presenters are unable to connect devices via Airplay when screensharing during a Zoom meeting. Visit the CIT News page for updates as our teams work toward a resolution.
VoiceThread Workshops
Our colleagues at VoiceThread are offering many free webinars in the coming weeks. One that could be particularly beneficial for UA instructors, Using VoiceThread in Blackboard. Learn more about this webinar, and others, on the VoiceThread website.
CIT Workshops
Speaking of workshops, we have our own in-house lineup. Looking ahead I suggest the Feb. 17 workshop, Using Collaborate Ultra in Blackboard. Blackboard Collaborate Ultra is a superb option for A/V and online classes as the tool is within your Blackboard course. Learn more, and register for the workshop, on our website.
You have questions, we have answers.
Give us a call at 205-348-3532, email us at cit@ua.edu or book an appointment to meet with us online.
When screensharing during a Zoom meeting, some presenters are unable to connect devices, such as iPads, via Airplay. CIT is currently working to resolve the issue.
