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LTD eShare Guide Recap (July-August)
Hey there folks, Mark here with your recap of all the latest LTD guide updates. Starting from August these feature posts will appear once a month to highlight any LTD guide updates added to eShare over the past 4 weeks! Well, just to skim the surface and name a few this month, we welcomed the addition of the new Turnitin app for Apple iPad, introduced the new super guide to the Blackboard Learning Module tool, kicked off an array of guides on feed readers, lifted the lid on Elluminate Plan for Blackboard Collaborate!
See the full reading list below to find out more information on everything we covered, and look out for the next eShare Guide Recap again next month.
Staff:
- Blackboard: How to add a module reading list to your course menu
- Blackboard: Comparing collaborative tools
- Turnitin for iPad: Getting started
- Blackboard: How to enhance your subject resources
- Collaborate: Elluminate Plan, how to create a basic session
- Blackboard: The discussion board tool
- Blackboard: The learning module tool
- Using external online tools in teaching and learning
Staff & Students:
Feel free to post a comment on here and let us know if these guides are helping you. You can also get in touch with us at [email protected] or call 01695 650754 if you have any questions or would simply like to know more about our staff and student guides.
Mark Wilcock
Learning Technology Development Officer
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Turnitin for iPad has arrived!
What do a sofa and a bus have in common? They are both places you can use the new Turnitin for iPad app to give your students really good feedback!
OK, so maybe you don’t imagine yourself on a bus… but a lot of you have been asking for an app to help you mark your students’ work at a time and place that suits you – so hopefully this will be exciting news.
This is fresh off the press so we’re just getting up to speed with the new features ourselves, but what we can say is that it looks good!
Click the image above to launch a video.The app has lots of features to help you give your students really great feedback on their writing. You can view your students originality reports, grade with rubrics, and annotate with QuickMark, highlights, bubble, inline, voice comments, and more. You can even sync assignments to your device to carry on grading in those annoying no internet zones!
Learn More
- You can find features information and training guides on the Turnitin website
- You can sign up to a 30-minute webcast hosted by Turnitin on Tuesday, 20.08.13 at 6pm – register for the Grade Anywhere: Turnitin for iPad to see a demo and hear more from one of the beta-users, Dr. Shannon Farris.
Try it!
We have created a Quick Guide to Getting Started with the Turnitin for iPad App as you will need to change a few settings and generate an ‘access code’ to see assignment submissions in your courses. It’s a bit fiddly but you only need to do it once.
Let us know how you get on – we’d love to hear how and where you use the app to evaluate your students work and help them improve their academic writing skills.
Contact the Learning Technology Development team to share any queries or comments you have regarding the new app – leave a comment below, email [email protected] or call 01695 650754.
Meg Juss
Learning Technology Development Manager
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Learning Edge Upgrade Webinar: “Play it again, Sam”
We wanted to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who attended the Blackboard VLE Summer Upgrade webinar yesterday. We hope it met your expectations and that you came away with a better understanding of the new Blackboard tools at your disposal, as well as the benefits you can gain from the feature improvements.
As I mentioned during the webinar, the session is now available for everyone to watch again. You have 2 options to replay the session, the first being YouTube:
Secondly, you can click on the following URL you access the entire session via Blackboard Collaborate:
http://tinyurl.com/LTDstaffdevSP12
Feel free to get in touch with us at [email protected] if you have any questions or would simply like to know more about the upgrade.
Mark Wilcock
Learning Technology Development Officer
