• Introduction to Profiles and Social Learning Tools in Blackboard

    Blackboard’s ‘Social Learning Tools’ form a small scale social networking style environment within Blackboard, which your students can use outside of their course areas. They include the Profile tool, People tool, Messages tool, and Spaces tool. The Profile tool will be the one you are most likely to have noticed. The profile pictures feed into…

  • Abandon survey fatigue and tell us what you think!

    Learning Services have run an annual student e-learning survey since 2008. This year we thought we’d do something different and focus on the academic staff experience instead. You may have seen slides on the plasma screens or received a flyer exhorting staff to take part in the Learning Services survey … and to date 70…