Quite often you have a YouTube video where only a small part of it is relevant to your students (such as a single 3 minute interview in a 30 minute clip), or you just want to draw particular attention to an excerpt (for example, a specific movement within a piece of music or the buildup to a…
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…
In May, Stuart Hepplestone and I asked SHU staff members to contribute to the development of a framework identifying different teaching approaches in use at SHU and the technologies that can support/enhance them. Over the summer, along with representatives from across the institution, we have been collating the huge amount of information that we received…
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…
The Teaching Essentials site has been developed to provide information for academic and learning support staff on specific Learning, Teaching & Assessment topics. This site has been created based on recommendations made by the Elementa Review into Academic Working Practice to the University Executive Group. The recommendation was to improve the collection, storage and dissemination…
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). …
Each year at the start of September we archive Blackboard organisation sites from the previous year (2012/13 in this case). This is to clean up the view for staff and students and ensure the correct Blackboard sites are used in the coming year. This year Blackboard organisation sites will be archived on 16/09/2013. This does not…