Turnitin.com is now available through Blackboard. Blackboard users can check papers for originality without leaving their course site.

• Turnitin profiles for student and staff are created automatically when
  they use Turnitin through Blackboard.
• No separate Turnitin registration is required.
• Single login for both Blackboard and Turnitin.
• Courses and assignments created in Blackboard are mirrored in Turnitin.
• Staff accustomed to using Turnitin.com may still access the system through the Turnitin website.

Instructions on how to use Turnitin in Blackboard are available from this site developed by Hofstra University.

Watch this video to learn about Turnitin Originality Reports.

Visit the Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Resources section of this site for more information.

On October 29, 2010, Blackboard at Victoria was upgraded to Blackboard Learn version 9.1.

For information about Blackboard 9.1, visit What's New. This page contains documentation and tutorials that will help you prepare to teach with Blackboard 9.1

Click on the link to view the Victoria Online Technology Survey. In October 2009, the University Teaching Development Centre (UTDC) conducted a survey of Victoria staff and students' attitudes to the use of online technology in teaching and learning. Responses to the survey were received from 192 staff members and 1820 students..

Blackboard Guidelines for Staff are available from the Guidelines section of the VUW Policy website.

These Guidelines clarify the level of support that is currently provided for Blackboard by the University and outline important matters to consider when making a decision to offer courses online.

Every year, lecturers need to request a new web site for all their courses, whether they have been offered in Blackboard previously, or not. If a course is taught more than once a year, it needs to be requested for each of the trimesters separately.

To request a course to be set up for you in Blackboard, please visit the ITS Customer Portal and fill out the online course request form via service request. The ITS Customer Portal can be accessed directly when logged onto myVictoria. Under the University Helpdesks heading (right hand side) fourth down is ITS Customer Portal, click on this and go to Log a Service Request - The Bb course request form is here.

For users off campus without VPN access, you need to send an email to the ITS Service Desk stating your Blackboard course request.

If you have to send an email request to ITS make sure to note:

• What content needs to be copied into the course. Previous year’s course, standard or school template?
• Is the requested course a joint course (e.g. THEA204-THEA207-ENGL221) or a split-stream course (e.g. CUST213 - distance learning stream, crn 15169)? In either case please make note of the CRN ’s (course reference numbers).

Information about scheduled Blackboard maintenance and upgrade outages is published under the heading "Staff - Important Notice" for staff and "Student - Important Notice" for students on the portal page of Blackboard as you log in, and on myVictoria.