During his keynote presentation at this year’s Learning and Teaching Conference, Simon Lancaster used Responseware system to allow the audience to vote in polls with their smartphones and tablets. For any SHU staff member who is interested in doing the same in their lectures, SHU has licences available for all staff to have access to…
#SocMedHE15 18 December 2015 Sheffield Hallam University is organising and hosting the first sector conference dedicated to the use of social media for learning in HE. It’s being put together in order to provide a hub for practitioners, strategists, academics and students alike to come together to talk about the impact Social Media is having…
We are pleased to announce a new receipting feature for our students when they submit their work online via a Blackboard Assignment. After their work is submitted, students will receive an email receipt confirming the details of their submission. For group assignments, all members of the group will receive an email confirming the group submission. All…
The University will shortly be launching a new feature for our students when they submit an assignment to a Blackboard. After they submit their work, students will receive an email confirming the details of their submission. Online submissions through Blackboard The student – or group of students if it is a group submission – will…
The process of automatically copying Blackboard sites for the 2015/16 academic year is now complete, and you can access your new sites and start preparing them. Staff enrolments have been carried across to the new sites. You will need to use the Staff Enrolment Tool in the Control Panel to add any new staff or unenrol…
Members of the TEL team and Assessment Journey Programme have recently compiled a resource to assist course planning teams in ensuring effective use of technology for learning, teaching and assessment during revalidation. The ‘Design with Online in Mind‘ leaflet provides information about key considerations related to the use of technology and links to other resources…
As part of the Assessment Journey Programme, a survey was sent at the start of the year to all academic staff involved in marking student work. The survey intended to capture marking practice at SHU during the period in which the survey was open. The responses from the 600 members of staff who completed the survey…
Jisc have recently revised their website and materials related to “student expectations of the digital environment” and how institutions are addressing the needs of an increasingly digitally-savvy student population. There is a lot of interesting material on the website, but of particular interest might be the new ‘Exemplars‘ section that features, among others, two case…
Screencasting refers to the process of recording a video of what is happening on a PC, often with narration, and making it available for students to watch whenever they want. It is commonly used for recording demonstrations of software and walkthroughs of computer-based processes, however growing numbers of staff from many disciplines are also using…
We are advertising for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in TEL, with an end date of September 2016. This post is to cover Stuart Hepplestone’s secondment to the Assessment Journey project. It is fixed term until 30 September 2016 but we will hopefully get funding to extend the position one more year after that to cover the full…