Important changes to Blackboard - Summer 2023

The UWE developed Online and Offline marking tools will not be supported by Blackboard after September 2023.

For AY 23/24, the options for marking coursework submissions in Blackboard will be:

• Blackboard Grade Centre, including marking Rubrics
• Spreadsheet Marking tool

Please see the guidance and video tutorials on the Blackboard Support website.

Please also see FAQs UWE Marking Tools End of Life.

As part of a wider pilot of Microsoft Teams, Blackboard Collaborate meetings will be replaced by Microsoft Teams for AY 23/24. Microsoft Teams will be available through Blackboard in a similar way to Collaborate:

• A Class Team will be available for each Blackboard course with staff and student membership synchronised.
• Teams Meetings can be scheduled within Blackboard or Microsoft Teams.
• Blackboard announcements, content updates and coursework submissions can be surfaced in Microsoft Teams.
• Blackboard course content can be linked within Microsoft Teams chat.

As part of move away from Blackboard Collaborate, the Collaborate Assessments Tool will also not be supported after September 2023. Any student recordings that need to be retained will need to be exported from within the Assessments Tool. Please see the guidance for exporting the recordings on the Blackboard Support website.

Access to Kaltura will end in July 2023 and all content will be deleted from the platform after this date. Any remaining teaching and learning content using the Kaltura platform will need to be downloaded and moved to Panopto before July 2023. In preparation for this change, Kaltura was made read-only from September 2021 to allow enough time for academic teams to move content.

If you still need to move any content from Kaltura to Panopto, please review the Panopto Guidance on the Blackboard support website.