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Adding Online Content citations into your MyUni course/s

Staff who require 10 or more citations to be added to their MyUni course/s can request assistance by filling in the 10+ Online Content Links form.
This service is only available for staff who have already lodged their list/s with DRMC and will only be offered to staff until Tuesday 23 February 2009.

For staff with less than 10 citations to add - instructions can be found at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/myuni//help/onlinecontent/

For more details please contact Online Learning at CLPD, telephone 8303 6040, email online.content@adelaide.edu.au

posted by Peter Murdoch 23/12/2009
 

New feature in MyUni - Online Content

The Digital Resources Management Centre (DRMC) in the Library provides a service to staff by creating digital versions of copyright text material and making them available online to students. Previously, the DRMC returned to staff a web link (URL) that was copied to a relevant webpage or MyUni course so that students could access the file. In order to provide the necessary control and reporting of the use of copyright materials the University is implementing a new system around resources subject to copyright.

From July 2008 a new database will be used to manage DRMC copyright material. The new system will allow you to place links to copyright material within MyUni using a new drop down tool called Online Content; this tool will be readily available inside your MyUni course.

The DRMC will continue to scan text documents and find text-based papers as they have done previously, the only change is how you will find the digital file and place it in MyUni. You will need to know how to manage this process for any material added by DRMC staff from July onwards. Any material that you have already submitted for DRMC to copy and for which you have already been given a link (a URL), will continue to be accessible with the new system until the end of 2008. However, from the beginning of 2009 there will no longer be access to the copyright material through the library catalogue (your allocated link will not work). All access from 2009 onwards will be via Online Content in your MyUni course.

Nothing different will be required from you if you have already submitted all of your required material for Semester 2 courses to DRMC before the end of June. If you add new material from July onwards you will need to know how to add the link to the material in MyUni by using the new drop down tool (Online Content) that will be available in MyUni.

The Centre for Learning and Professional Development (CLPD) will be making online and face-to-face training courses available as we get closer to the launch date. These courses will explain how to link to the material processed for you by DRMC.

For more details please contact CLPD; Allan Carrington. Telephone 830 38085

Questions relating to DRMC services, such as article scanning should be directed to drmc@adelaide.edu.au.

posted by Tristram Lawson 20/6/2008
 

Effective Use of MyUni Training

The ITS training team in collaboration with Online Learning, CLPD, has developed a new face to face course and accompanying manual on the effective use of MyUni. This new monthly course offers staff the opportunity to learn how to use some of the more advanced features of MyUni including:

• Discussion boards
• Quizzes
• Gradebook
• Assignments
• Respondus
• Learning units

Click here to book  |  Click here for more information

posted by Dayle Hall 11/6/2008
 

TestGen - editing Pearson test banks and creating quizzes for MyUni

You are invited to an information session on Pearson Education's 'TestGen' software for editing test banks and creating quizzes for MyUni. This session will be of particular interest to staff who are using text books published by Pearson Education as they have free access to associated test banks.

Please email dayle.hall@adelaide.edu.au to register your interest, or ph 8303 8064

posted by Dayle Hall 18/4/2008
 

MyMedia usage in Semester 1, 2008

There has been a significant increase in the usage of MyMedia in Semester I 2008. A total of 447 lectures (156 audio and 291 video) have been recorded so far, an increase from 333 at this time last year. There has been a particular increase in the number of video recordings. All audio and video content is processed automatically, but increased use has caused an increase in the processing time for MyMedia material. Links to media should be delivered by the start of the next business day.

 The top 3 causes of failed recordings are:

1. Failure to press "Start Presentation" on the lecturn touch panel in a common teaching venue. This will fail to initiate AV equipment in the venue.
2. Failure to turn on the radio microphone in the venue. This will result in a recording with no audio content.
3. AV equipment failure or problems with the connectivity between AV equipment and the pc installed in the venue.

Anyone who does experiences problems in a venue or a delay in receiving links should report these as soon as possible to the IT Helpdesk on 33000 and provide details of the venue and time.

MyMedia website

posted by Dani Hopkins 16/4/2008
 

MyUni service outages in 2008

From 10 February to 5 March 2008 a series of unscheduled outages were experienced that affected MyUni, MyMedia and MapleTA as well as other University services. There were 2 primary causes for these outages:

1. A bug in core network equipment caused approximately 5 outages that affected many University services. The issue was raised with the network vendor and workarounds put in place to stabilise equipment until the bug can be fully resolved in April.
2. A bug in Oracle software for the MyUni production environment caused 3 separate outages from 15 minutes to 13 hours in duration. The bug unfortunately triggered the corruption of a database index which led to the longest 13 hour outage while the corrupted file was repaired. An emergency patch was applied to the database during week 1 of semester and the database has been stable since.

MyUni has a target availability of 99.5%. An estimated 16.5 hours of unscheduled downtime have been experienced so far in 2008 bringing the current availability to 99.81%.

 posted by Dani Hopkins 16/4/2008

Semester one 2008 courses

Courses for semester one 2008 are now available in MyUni.

posted by Dani Hopkins Dec 2007
 

MyUni Upgrade to Blackboard 7.2

During December 2007, MyUni will be upgraded from Blackboard version 7.1 to 7.2. The upgrade will fix a number of current issues and introduce some new functionality.

Functionality changes that instructors will see are:

• The form used to send email to selected users within a course has now been reverted back so that names are displayed in "lastname, firstname" format.
• It is now possible to generate an email when creating or modifying an announcement. This email will be sent to all users enrolled in the course, and will contain the title and body of the announcement
• A new Course Email tool has been added that allows email to be sent to all student users within the course without an instructor having to select them individually.
• In the Gradebook, for each grade instructors can now add comments that are visible to students.
• This release of Blackboard introduces The Early Warning System - a new feature that builds upon the Performance Dashboard and introduces the ability for instructors to proactively measure and monitor student performance based on key performance metrics.
• Minor enhancements to the discussion forums area.

Issues for instructors to be aware of include:

• If a forward dated announcement is created, the title of the announcement appears immediately in the "New Content" tab.
• If an instructor elects to send e-mail when creating/modifying a forward dated announcement, the email is sent immediately to all course users regardless of when the announcement is set to be visible to students.
• Instructors who use filters on their inbox should note that the course e-mail tool now includes the course name at the end of the subject line rather than at the beginning. Email generated from the announcements tool or from the export/archiving tool puts the course ID at the beginning of the subject line.
• When new courses are created automatically and content copied from a source course, some course tools may be re-enabled in the destination course. Instructors will need to check and modify course tool availability in 2008 courses.
• Tracking statistics functionality is not reporting accesses to content items correctly when enabled.
• .docx file extensions (produced by Office 2007) are now supported as content items but problem exist if these documents are send using the e-mail tool or submitted in the digital dropbox. .docx files are supported in the assignments feature.

The Faculty Release notes for 7.2 and Instructor Manual can be downloaded here. Please note that these documents may refer to products, functionality or tools within Blackboard that we are not licensed for at the University.

posted by Dani Hopkins Dec 2007
 

MyUni 7.1 Upgrade Successful

A MyUni upgrade occurred on July 6-8 2007. The University is now supporting Blackboard V7.1.

The Instructor and Student Manuals for release 7.1 can be downloaded here.

For an overview of the new discussion board functionality, please view this audio narrated presentation:

Overview of the New Discussion Board
(requires speakers or headphones, opens in new window, 3 min 30 secs, 5MB)

The following pdf document provides an overview for students:

How to... Overview of the Discussion Board (for Students)  (pdf 411kB)

You can also drop in to the Wednesday MyUni Drop In session.

posted by Dani Hopkins July 2007