{"id":17766,"date":"2025-06-23T15:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/?p=17766"},"modified":"2025-06-23T15:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:08:58","slug":"flie-support-for-preparing-your-units-for-25-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2025\/06\/23\/flie-support-for-preparing-your-units-for-25-26\/","title":{"rendered":"FLIE support for preparing your units for 25\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we let you know that the release of 2025\/26 units on Brightspace will be <a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2025\/06\/18\/preparing-units-for-2025-26-and-key-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slightly delayed this year<\/a> until early August. But that doesn&#8217;t mean you have to wait until then to start preparing your unit content. You may already have access to a sandbox site, which is your place to trial and develop Brightspace content on a unit which is only accessible to you. And any content you create in your sandbox unit can be easily copied over to any curricular unit. So if you&#8217;d like to get ahead of the game, we&#8217;re recommending that this year staff use their sandbox spaces to build their unit materials and then transfer them across to the real units following their August release.<\/p>\n<h2>How do I find my sandbox unit?<\/h2>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find your sandbox unit under the Guidance and Training tab of Brightspace or simply search for &#8216;sandbox&#8217; in the waffle.<\/p>\n<h2>I don&#8217;t have a sandbox unit!<\/h2>\n<p>No problem &#8211; you can easily request one via your Faculty Learning Technologist, see the email links below.<\/p>\n<h2>I have multiple sandbox sites &#8211; which one do I use?<\/h2>\n<p>If you have multiple sandboxes, use the one labelled as &#8216;Lessons&#8217; &#8211; or if you&#8217;d like to start afresh, contact your Faculty Learning Technologist to request a new sandbox site for 25\/26.<\/p>\n<h2>My sandbox has a lot of content already &#8211; is it possible to have a new one?<\/h2>\n<p>Absolutely &#8211; you are able to delete any unwanted content, or we can clean your sandbox down, or you have the option to request a new, blank sandbox via your Faculty Learning Technologist.<\/p>\n<h1>Support from FLIE<\/h1>\n<p>If you would like support with this process, or any further advice or guidance on unit preparation and Brightspace, pop along to one of our drop-in sessions in July where one of the Learning Technologists will be available over lunchtime to help you:<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 251px\" width=\"431\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"79\">Wednesday 2nd July<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">12 to 1<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">FG19\/ BGB111<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wednesday 9th July<\/td>\n<td>12 to 1<\/td>\n<td>FG19\/ BGB601<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wednesday 16th July<\/td>\n<td>12 to 1<\/td>\n<td>FG19\/ BGB601<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Thursday 24th July<\/td>\n<td>12 to 1<\/td>\n<td>FG19\/ BGB111<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tuesday 29th July<\/td>\n<td>12 to 1<\/td>\n<td>FG19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Learning Technologists also run regular drop-ins within faculties and are available to support enquiries anytime via the Faculty mailboxes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>HSS<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:hsslearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk\">hsslearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>BUBS<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:bubslearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk\" target=\"_self\">bubslearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>FMC<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:fmclearningTechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk\">fmclearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>FST<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:scitechlearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk\">scitechlearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Further guidance <a href=\"https:\/\/brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk\/d2l\/le\/content\/18315\/viewContent\/1105755\/View\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17783 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2025\/06\/Prep2526.jpg\" alt=\"Colourful lego bricks with text Preparing for 2025\/2026\" width=\"258\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>For further information on preparing units for the coming academic year, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk\/d2l\/le\/content\/18315\/viewContent\/1105755\/View\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unit Preparation Guidance<\/a>\u00a0page in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk\/d2l\/home\/18315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brightspace Staff Resources area<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we let you know that the release of 2025\/26 units on Brightspace will be slightly delayed this year until early August. But that doesn&#8217;t mean you have to wait until then to start preparing your unit content. You may already have access to a sandbox site, which is your place to trial and&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2025\/06\/23\/flie-support-for-preparing-your-units-for-25-26\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about FLIE support for preparing your units for 25\/26<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2810,"featured_media":17782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,163,5,704],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brightspace","category-digital-skills","category-news","category-teaching-and-learning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17766"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17787,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766\/revisions\/17787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}