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An app update you don’t want to miss! Blackboard Mobile Learn 4.0
Do you update your apps?With obvious alerts to let you know when an app update is available, this might seem like a strange question, but not everybody updates.
I, for example, have an embarrasing nummber of app updates waiting for my attention, because I, “just haven’t got around to it yet”. I know I ought to do it, but I only really make time to update when I know it will fix a problem that’s been annoying me, or if I like the look of a new feature. Mobile Learn 4.0 is one of those anticipated app updates – let me explain why …
Blackboard Mobile Learn™ 4.0 Coming Soon!
Provisional release date: August 26thThe new version update will do away with the old cork-board and replace it with a fresh new ‘clean’ design, display a wider variety of rich content styles (including, bold, italics, underline, bullets, block quotes, links, images etc.), introduce the ability to personalise course list (by hiding, coloring, and reordering courses) AND ‘favorite‘ different areas of the app for quick access!
Check out the full feature list in this new guide
Mobile Learn 4.0 Feature Guide
Look out for the update next month, and let us know what you think!
Contact the Learning Technology Development team to share any queries or comments you have regarding the new app. Help us by leaving a comment below. Email [email protected] or call 01695 650754.
Meg Juss
Learning Technology Development Manager
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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
