Dear Students, Once your semester one unit closes on the 31st of July of this year you will retain access to your unit in a Past student role. This will allow you to view grades, discussions and content. However if you have received feedback from within Turnitin, this will no longer be accessible due to […]

On Wednesday January 11th, 2017 a number of updates will be applied to the MyLO environment and the MyMedia playback experience . The changes are summarised below. MyLO: The MyLO landing page will be updated. The tools previously accessed from the MyLO landing page are still available, but are now grouped under more intuitive menu options. Additional […]

Why are we making changes to MyLO? The system we use for MyLO – called Brightspace – has updated its user interface which they have called Daylight. Daylight will look and feel differently and will adapt reponsively dependant on the size of your device. It is has a cleaner, more modern interface and will be […]

Dear Staff Recently, an update to the Echo360 Personal capture has been released by the vendor that supports single sign on (SSO) for users. This has been a long awaited feature as it means that you now authenticate using your UTAS email address and UTAS password (previously you had a separate password for Echo360). You […]

As you may be aware there are currently two versions of Blackboard Collaborate available for staff to use within their teaching, Standard and Ultra.  The older version, Blackboard Collaborate Standard, which is accessed via Online Rooms within the LMS, will no longer be available for use effective 11 January 2017. Blackboard Collaborate Ultra will continue […]

Dear Staff, As you may be aware over the past 6 months we have been migrating all recordings that exist in the old MyMedia Service: EchoSystem to the new cloud based service Active Learning Platform (ALP). The process is now nearing completion with only 5% of the 58,000 recordings remaining to be migrated to ALP […]

The August update of Ultra Collaborate Web Conferencing has given moderators the ability to create break Out rooms. For more information on how to create break out rooms please read this guide: https://en-us.help.blackboard.com/Collaborate/Ultra/Moderator/070_Collaboration/Breakout_groups Ultra is updated in the first week of each month. To keep up-to-date with what is happening in this space please read […]

Turnitin is preparing to release a major product upgrade. The new version of the service, called Turnitin Feedback Studio, offers all the functionalities of Turnitin, but with a simplified, more intuitive interface designed for the modern classroom. We plan to upgrade our version of Turnitin to the Feedback Studio on 4th of July 2016. You […]

The fifth regional users conference Ignite Asia Pacific, will be held by Desire2Learn on the sunny Gold Coast this year. Join D2L and users from throughout the AsiaPac region on the 18th & 19th August. If you are interested in presenting at the conference then please Submit your presentation proposal by 3rd June . D2L […]