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Hi Mark, Good luck with this, I'm sure Richard and I will be keen on following this. Good to meet you at Antwerp and please do feel free to get in touch to discuss our anonymous assignment submission tool as discussed. Best, Simon On 30 April 2012 10:58, Mark Gamble <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi All > > Like many institutions, Bedfordshire is using Turnitin as an integration > in Blackboard and this can generate grades, which we need to get as easily > as possible into our Student Record System, SITS. I have been talking to > Blackboard about this for some time and at the recent Bb Learn Conference > in Antwerp, discussed it again. It seems that there are now quite a few > similar conversations going on, and between us we arrived at the notion > that it might be possible to devise a collaborative project for those UK > Universities using SITS to work together with Blackboard to deliver a > tool/process that would benefit all of us. > > In simple terms, each unique assignment code will need to be generated > from SITS and passed into the Bb Grade Centre. In our case, we'll need to > make sure any provisional grades from Turnitin will need to be entered in > the associated grade column. Then there will need to be a trigger to send > the results back to SITS. > > A consortium could share development costs, at least of core components, > if not of a complete solution. Blackboard is likely to want a single > billing-point and this may prove to be contentious among our Finance > Departments, but I suspect this project may well be worth a try. At least > we could get together to open a collective discussion with Blackboard. If > you think your institution might be interested, please come back to me. > > > -- > Regards > Mark > > Mark Gamble, FHEA > Head of Learning Technology, Centre for Learning Excellence, University of > Bedfordshire, Park Square, Luton, Beds, LU1 3JU > Tel (+44)1582 489260 Mob 07720 068605 > Int ext 9260 / 6360 (mobex) > > BREO HELPLINE 01582 489205 / int 9205 > -- Simon J Davis - E-Learning Adviser E-Learning Development Team, Academic Support Office LFA 0132, 1st Floor Harry Fairhurst Building 01904 321143 Stay up to date - subscribe to our blog: http://elearningyork.wordpress.com/ General VLE support: [log in to unmask] Yorkshare HQ: http://vlesupport.york.ac.uk/ Times Higher Education University of the Year 2010 EMAIL DISCLAIMER http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm