Hi Stephen
That building block sounds just what I may be looking for ... do you have a URL for it? What version of BB are you using?
Emma Duke-Williams
On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 09:09:34 +0000, APPLEGARTH S.G. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Hi Andy
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>At Durham we have always copied the courses in their entirety with all content (Turnitin and other Assignments) and Turnitin assignments have always been a problem, they still show but won't work until they've been deleted and recreated which is down to the instructors to do each year.
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>Last year we did two things differently, we tried to persuade departments to create new modules from provided blank templates with some small uptake, and we tried to remove Turnitin links to force instructors to re-create (typically they didn't get re-created until someone realised they were not working)
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>The Turnitin delete worked well, I identified them at the rollover point and used a building block built by Malcolm Murray to delete them. We discovered a small flaw with this process last year, the Turnitin assignment was deleted but it left the grade centre column in place which caused a few issues, though nothing serious.
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>I am just starting to prepare this year's rollover (I literally started the process an hour before someone pointed me to this thread) and we will take the same approach as last year, but will look at modifying the tool to delete the Grade Centre column too if possible.
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>We've never tried to remove the blackboard assignments, I'm not sure of any benefit of doing that for us at Durham, but I will mention it to the team and see if we think there is merit for us.
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>Thanks
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>Stephen
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