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New and Improved Content Editor for Blackboard
Arriving with a *※BANG※* 5th November! An updated, easier-to-use, more powerful Content Editor will be available from 5th November within Learning Edge (Blackboard). The Content Editor, if the term doesn’t sound familiar, can be found in many places across Blackboard such as when you create an item, folder or blank page or when formatting text…
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Summer Upgrade (Blackboard)
The summer 2018 upgrade has been quite a big deal for the Learning Technology Team. We have been months in planning for the latest upgrade with the idea in mind that if we do it right then you shouldn’t see any difference! It does make sense… honestly… let us briefly explain; For a number of…
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Turnitin Feedback Studio: Ready for marking
As we are swiftly heading on through this semester and towards end of term assessments we thought it would be helpful to once again highlight marking through Turnitin. Turnitin recently released Feedback Studio; an updated and revamped way of marking papers with some nifty new features such as page navigation and Grading/Similarity layers. Access to…
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Blackboard Student Mobile App
The summer brought a number of changes to the learning technologies used in the University and one in particular I wanted to highlight here is the new Blackboard Student Mobile App available for iOS, Android and Windows mobiles and tablets. It is radically different to the previous app (Mobile Learn) having had a complete redesign.…
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Technology Supported Learning – Advanced Grade Marking and Grade Centre use
Clinical Education, now housed within the Faculty of Health and Social Care, re-won a tender in March 2015 to deliver the Postgraduate Certificate in Workplace-Based Postgraduate Medical Education from September 2015. With this came an overhaul of the way that the marking and grades were managed within Learning Edge and as a result a more…
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Technology Supported Learning – A Wright Rubric
Andrea Wright – FLM3023 (CW1) This summer, for the first time, Film Studies moved over to marking using Turnitin, and we decided that we wanted to make that marking as useful to the students as possible by indicating how they were scoring in relation to the grade criteria of 0-100, how well they were meeting…
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Rubrics… So what are they anyway?
Recently in the Learning Technology Department we’ve been taking lots of calls and emails from staff wanting to use Rubrics in their teaching and learning but specifically, marking. What are they? Rubrics could also be called Grading or Marking Criteria. I’m sure many of you are used to the grid system used to mark students…
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Summer’s over… Let’s welcome the new term!
We wave goodbye to the long days, sunshine(?!) and quiet campus but instead we greet our new students and all the fun – and challenges – that the new term brings! So what’s been happening lately in the world of learning technology? Well, possibly not much that you can actually see but plenty has been…
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Blackboard World Conference – Part 3
Washington DC – National Harbour Conference Centre, 20th-23rd July Final day! The conference has been interesting but in particular our colleagues from across the globe have been wonderful. We’re still getting people coming up to us saying “your session was great” and “so cool what you guys are doing”. This is fantastic feedback to receive.…