As announced last July, we have been transitioning the blogs and wikis tools available inside of Blackboard during this academic year. As part of this transition we will be disabling the ability to add Campus Pack Blog and Campus Pack Wiki tools from 28 May. These tools will no longer be supported by the supplier, and…
In March we announced that we are transitioning the Blackboard online submission tool from SHU Assignments to the default Blackboard Assignments during this summer. To ensure continuity in the student experience where possible, we recommend that: assignments with submission deadlines in May use SHU Assignments assignments with submission deadlines in June or later use Blackboard…
Stuart Hepplestone is running a number of sessions at next week’s University Assessment Week (30 April – 3 May 2012). The sessions that Stuart will be facilitating are designed to be a mix of both practical hands-on and provide opportunities for discussion with colleagues about their experiences and generate ideas for the application of technology to support assessment…
The IT Help service now has its own twitter feed, which it will be using to point out information and self-help guidance about IT to staff and students. Look there for tips on getting the most out of the software the University provides. Follow them on twitter at @ITHelpSHU, or look at the right menu bar of…
The deadline for submitting to the Learning & Teaching Conference has been extended to Monday 16th April 2012. If you want to share your practice in technology enhanced learning with the University, please submit something! The University’s Learning & Teaching Conference provides an opportunity to explore the future of HE. The conference welcomes submissions from…
The HERSG conference has a strand on pedagogy and technology-enhanced learning this year, so staff interested in technology enhanced learning may want to share their practice at the conference, and we are highlighting the call for proposals that has been sent out: HERSG 2012 Annual Conference Making Higher Education Count: Pedagogies for post 2012 June…
This summer we are planning to transition our Blackboard online submission tool from SHU Assignments, a custom Sheffield Hallam tool, to the default Assignment tool Blackboard provides. This is being done to ensure that we can take advantage of current and future enhancements to the online submission, grades and feedback features of Blackboard. More details…
The Technology Enhanced Learning team are looking at different approaches to improving the way staff access quality, online self help information with a focus on supporting learning, teaching and assessment (LTA). The starting point for the project has been to identify resources currently available across the University, initially concentrating on assessment and feedback, employability, inclusive practice…
Staff interested in technology enhanced learning may want to share their practice at our University-wide learning and teaching conference, so we are repeating the call for proposals that went out via email: The University’s Learning and Teaching Conference will take place on Wednesday 11th July. Its main theme is “Higher Expectations: Meeting our Students’ Expectations…
Please note this message from IS&T, as you may need to change links on your Blackboard site if you are directly linking to the SHU regulations and codes page from your Blackboard site: The current SHU regulations and codes pages on shuspace have been replaced by a new set of pages entitled Academic Regulations and…