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…
This is part of a regular series of articles exploring some of the terms used in e-learning (view other articles in the series). We’ll do our best to break down the jargon and explain what things are from a basic perspective. IFTTT stands for “IF This Then That” and it is a free online service…
This is part of a regular series of articles exploring some of the terms used in e-learning (view other articles in the series). We’ll do our best to break down the jargon and explain what things are from a basic perspective. Google Sites is a tool for creating and publishing websites. It is free, entirely…
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…
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…
What is it? Video refers to a sequence of images, usually with accompanying audio, and this stimulation of two senses simultaneously makes video an engaging medium and a very useful learning tool. The videos themselves could take many forms, such as interviews, films, performances, computer screen recordings, ‘talking head’ monologues, demonstrations, debates, etc. The skill and technology requirements…
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). …
This is part of a regular series of articles exploring some of the terms used in e-learning (view other articles in the series). We’ll do our best to break down the jargon and explain what things are from a basic perspective. Bookmarks (or ‘Favorites’ in Internet Explorer) are references to web pages that you save in…
This is part of a regular series of articles exploring some of the terms used in e-learning (view other articles in the series). We’ll do our best to break down the jargon and explain what things are from a basic perspective. A ‘Mind Map’ is a visual way of representing information which works by drawing…