Scot-BUG Community Site

This site is very much out-of-date. To engage with the Scottish Blackboard Users’ Group please visit the Blackboard Community Site:

https://community.blackboard.com/groups/scotbug

Best wishes to the new co-ordinators (Myles and Jim)

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Event – 6th April 2017

The next meeting of Scot-BUG is on Thursday 6th April at University of Dundee.

The presentations are being agreed but we should have items on the Grades Journey, Blue Pulse and Online Grading.

Full details and the booking form can be found on the Next Event Page.

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Event – 14th April 2016

The next meeting of Scot-BUG is on Thursday, 14th April at University of Edinburgh.

There will be presentations on ‘Interacting using Adobe Connect’ and Edinburgh’s experiences using Collaborate Ultra. Alongside these there will be an update from Blackboard, a presentation on Explorance Blue and Turnitin Next.

Full details and the booking form can be found on the Next Event Page.

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Event – 12th June 2015

The next meeting of Scot-BUG is on Friday, 12th June at Perth College.

The theme is Open Badges with case studies from University of Edinburgh and Abertay University. Gary Finnigan from Turnitin UK will also be talking about the future plans for Turnitin UK. As always there will be update from Blackboard. There will also be a presentation by Keith Symth, Professor of Pedagogy at University of Highlands and Islands (our hosts for this event).

Full details and the booking form can be found on the Next Event Page.

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Event – 26th November 2014

The next meeting of Scot-BUG is on Wednesday, 26th November at Abertay University.

The core theme will be assessment with talks on online grading across the University from Carol Maxwell and Alice LaRooy, Experience with Delegated Marking from Laraine d’Antin and an Assessment Roundtable. The day will be rounded off with presentations on Xerte and Blackboard’s support for the LIS specification.

Full details and the booking form can be found on the Next Event Page.

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Event – 20th June 2014

The next meeting of Scot-BUG is on Friday, 20th June at the University of Stirling.

There will be presentations from Blackboard on the April 2014 release and the roadmap, plus Enterprise Surveys and MOOCs.

Full details and the booking form can be found on the Next Event Page.

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Event – 27th February 2014

The next meeting of Scot-BUG is on Thursday 27th February at Aberdeen University.

The theme is ‘Bridging [In]Formal Learning’ and will include presentations on Open Badges, Cloud Tools and Blackboard Collaborate. Full details and the booking form can be found on the Next Event Page.

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Event – 1st March 2013

The next meeting of Scot-BUG is on Friday 1st March Glasgow Caledonian University.

The meeting will have presentations on the Helix streaming server, Blackboard roadmap and a number of presentation on the community tools. Full details and the booking form can be found on theĀ Next Event Page

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Event – 16th November 2012

The next meeting of Scot-BUG is on Friday, 16th November at Heriot-Watt University.

The meeting will have presentations on service pack 10, Kaltura, BIRT and a building block to batch upload feedback. Full details can be found on the Next Event Page

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Event – 27th May 2011

The next meeting of Scot-BUG is on Friday 27th May at Aberdeen College.

We’ll be looking at the Blackboard roadmap, shared services, upgrading to Learn 9.1 and the use of video conferencing for teaching at Aberdeen College.

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