Back in January the University of South Africa (Unisa) announced that it would be upgrading its myUnisa student portal to use the Moodle learning platform, and now that upgrade seems to have had an effect on how students submit their assignments.
“Due to the upgrade of myModules on the myUnisa website, Unisa is closing the assignment submissions on the myAdmin platform. Students must now submit their assignments on their myModule s2022 module sites,” a message from the university reads.
This message also comes with a link to several guides called “Basic Skills” which can be accessed here.
These guides seem to show students how to navigate the new sections of the portal.
Interestingly, while Moodle is not mentioned by name on the page, its icon (a lowercase “m” with mortarboard hat on top of it) appears in the tab information at the top of a web browser.
For assignments students need to navigate to lesson 12, which shows them how to submit assignments. This lesson is broken down into two sections which you can access at the following links:
Reading through these guides and they seem rather comprehensive with written instructions backed up with images, and the images have clear highlighted sections so students can be sure what parts of the interface they should interact with.
That being said big changes to important processes like submitting assignments can be stressful and it opens up the possibility that an error can be made while trying to learn these new systems.
Unisa has not left students on their own for this, with webinars on the use of the new system taking place. Students are directed to find details of the webinars under their announcements.
An email address is also provided for the Academic Development Open Virtual Hub (ADOVH) Team which seems to be linked to this new portal. That email address is ADOVH[AT]unisa[DOT]co[DOT]za.
