• Find out more about Learning Edge

    Have you ever thought, what really is Learning Edge, what does it contain, why is it seen as eight tools in one!!!  What are the eight tools and do they effect me?

    The Learning Technology Development Team are holding a pop up road show in the foyer of the University Library.  You can go along on Thursday 22nd November 2012 11.30 am – 2.30pm to speak to members of the team about all things technology, mobile, or VLE. 

    The road show is for everyone – staff and students can come along to ask questions, share any issues and also share good practice.  We have mobile devices to show you how valuable the Blackboard mobile app can be in keeping in touch with your course and your students.  We will also have support and information about using other apps for resources.

    We will have some freebies to give away – you can have a 1GB Learning Services wrist band if you tell us on a flip camera video (helpful staff will be around with the camera) what technologies help you with your studies – it can be anything!

    Looking forward to seeing you

    The Learning Technology Development Team

    Rachel

  • eShare – Staff Development

    What is eShare? Why do we have it? How can it benefit me?

    Come along tomorrow for an introduction to our digital repository for teaching and learning and see how you can make the most of eShare.

    eShare offers you the opportunity to showcase your work to the world, store presentations, videos and images in an easily accessible way and find ready-made, adaptable materials for your teaching.

    In this hands-on session you will:

    • Create a profile – your profile can then be used for departmental webpages, EHRA and CV creation.
    • Learn how to search the repository for teaching resources, guides to teaching and learning technologies and learning resources.
    • Upload your own items – copyright and creative commons will be explained and demystified.
    • Enjoy the benefits of sharing with a Cake Tasting session!

    Thursday 15th November 11.00-1.00.  Book online here.

     

    Michelle

  • How Blackboard 9.1 Enrolment Works

    Enrolments are always high on the agenda at the start of a new academic year and this year has been no exception.

    There have been many enquiries on how students are enrolled so let’s take a look at how enrolments are processed:

    As you can see the Student Information Database (SID) dictates what is fed in to Blackboard 9.1. Student enrolments are processed automatically based on each students registration status.

    “In terms of Blackboard student enrolments – SID is king!”

    Currently enrolments are fed into Blackboard via the enrolment snapshot feed file (pipe delimited text file):

    EXTERNAL_PERSON_KEY|EXTERNAL_COURSE_KEY|ROLE|ROW_STATUS|AVAILABLE
123456|STAT_LS_ACADEMIC_SUPPORT|STUDENT|ENABLED|Y

    The feed file contains all valid students and their respective enrolments for qualification, course and module areas.

    Manual Student Enrolments – Don’t do it

    If students are not appearing in course areas as expected do not enrol them manually!
    There are generally two reasons for students not being enrolled:

    1.  They are not enrolled correctly in SID
    2. The student’s cohort is not part of a course merge

    In both instances please refer to your course/departmental administrator(s).

    Course Availability

    By default all new courses in Blackboard are set to unavailable. If students are enrolled and they can not see their course, the course must be made available. Please see the following guide on how to change course availability.

    If you have any questions please leave a comment or alternatively contact your Faculty Learning Technologist for further information.

     

     

     

     

    John Langford
    Learning Technology Systems Officer

    John

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