A new ‘My Announcements’ channel has been launched in shuspace. This new announcements channel collates and lists the names of all announcements posted on all Blackboard sites that you are enrolled, and is structured site by site. Each announcement name links through to the announcements page for that Blackboard site where the full text of…
On December 3rd -5th, the Yorkshire & Humber JISC Regional Support Centre will be hosting a free online conference. The conference covers hot topics in e-learning and this year the themes is ‘MOOCs, Badges and Open Educational Resources’. There are several presentations each day and you can sign up for as many or few as you like. Sheffield Hallam will be represented…
On 4 November from 10-12 we will be holding a workshop with staff and students about learning and teaching and the role of technology in it. This workshop’s outcomes will feed into the developing University Strategy and help influence the future of learning and teaching. Due to a need to change the original workshop date, we do not have…
If you want to know more about improving your screen reading experience, marking on-screen, or digital note taking – or you just want some pointers, you’re likely to find this resource really useful: The reading onscreen wordpress site (readingonscreen.wordpress.com) It’s been put together by York University in response to their staff requesting guidance in this…
This case study explores the use of Google Sites to improve student engagement, authentic learning and employability. The tutor wanted to find an innovative approach to engage students struggling to market their HR capability to employers during their placement seeking year. Students were put in to groups and asked to ‘create’ a company and develop an intranet site…
A range of resources to support students in their use of social media is now available. Students can access these four resources at http://go.shu.ac.uk/socialmedia. The resources include – How to use social media responsibly – a guide for students – explaining why and how students need to be responsible in their use of…
This message is on behalf of Brian Irwin, Head of Technology Enhanced Learning, and Nigel Williamson, Head of IT Support We are pleased to announce that staff can now access the online applications provided by Google using their institutional login. Students have been able to access these tools for the past two years alongside their…
Have you seen the red box with a number at the upper right of shuspace and wondered what it is? Well shuspace now has a feature to help you keep track of activity across your Blackboard sites. In the top right of the screen you will see your name: the number after it will tell you how…
The following is a message from IS&T we are reposting to raise awareness of: IS&T has developed a Digital Strategy discussion website to identify innovative and more efficient ways to use IT to deliver the new emerging University Strategy. They are very keen to gather feedback from staff, students and other stakeholders to make developing it…
PebblePad is an online environment that supports students and staff with creating, maintaining and sharing e-portfolios. For many years PebblePad has been available only in two faculties, D&S and HWB. Work is now underway to make it available across the institution. Later today we will connect PebblePad with single sign-on (which means users will use their University login to access it). …