• What Equipment do I Need to Collaborate?

    Blackboard Collaborate is a real-time web conferencing and online learning tool that can be used to support teaching and learning and other collaborative projects, and is generating a great deal of interest within Faculties and Departments at Edge Hill University. There has been a major increase in its use for taught sessions, meetings and student…

  • A Knight’s Tale – ebooks the ultimate creation

    Learning Service’s Learning Technology Development Team wanted to find out if it is possible to create an eBook of course content and distribute it to students without publishing through a 3rd party but via the institutional Virtual Learning Environment (Blackboard), as a way of providing media rich content which can be downloaded to their device.…

  • Geography are hands-on with Assignment Handler

    Edge Hill’s approach to eAssignment is to offer a number of flexible tools and not tie departments down to any one method.  After considering the choices available to them, each Faculty has gone with their preferred method of assignment submission. Learning Edge currently has 3 tools: Blackboard Assignment, Assignment Handler and Turnitin. Nigel Richardson (Head…

  • A Library of Answers

    Technology Roadshow Learning Services and IT Services are again joining forces to offer advice on the latest technology developments. We will be setting up a pop-up stall in the University Library where all your students can come along and ask us questions at the ‘Technology Roadshow’.           The aim of the…

  • Blackboard 9.1 Journal Tool – Reflections in Writing.

    JOURNAL Communication – Blackboard 9.1 offers new opportunities for using social communication tools including Journals, blogs and wikis.  The main difference between a blog and a journal is that blogs tend to be used for group debate and to comment, and the Journal tool for individual reflection.  Journals offer a personal writing space for self-reflection…

  • Join the Slim-Down Revolution….Image Optimisation for Everyone

    Part of the “55 Minute Learning Bites” series. Looking at the basics of producing images which are small in file size and without compromising on quality can also be more accessible to your audience. This session is aimed at anyone who wants to make their image files less demanding on documents and storage space –…

  • Emerging Technologies Staff Development Monday 21 November 2011 – The Right Image For Blackboard

    Want to learn how to make your images more accessible? By optimising them you are creating a resource which is both less demanding on Blackboard and eShare storage and also more usable by your intended audience. Image optimisation is using the most compressed (smallest file size) which remains visually acceptable for the specific role of…