• Qwickly Attendance: Call for Early Adopters

    It was only a few months back when we introduced the new update for Qwickly Attendance (online Register System) to our 2016 Learning Edge Summer Upgrade. Many of you attended the staff development sessions we delivered back in August and the feedback we’ve received about the new features has been superb . Though many of you…

  • Digital Productivity for Health & Social Care Staff

    This month the Faculty of Health & Social Care (FoHSC) – with the added support of their Senior SOLSTICE Fellow (Laura Taylor) – introduced a brand new resource to provide its staff with the latest in e-learning tools and resources to help deliver ‘technology enhanced learning’ to its students. The Digital Productivity Lab is a quiet work…

  • Introducing Qwickly Attendance: A Whole New Way to Create and Manage Online Registers

    We know that online attendance management for Blackboard Learn has been on your radar recently. We’re very happy to announce this week a new reliable, secure and efficient online attendance platform that ticks the box (literally). Let me introduce, ‘Qwickly Attendance’.  Qwickly will enable all staff to easily record/track (and grade – optional) student attendance in…

  • Keep Calm and Submit this Christmas

    Christmas comes around quick doesn’t it!? One minute you’re moving in to halls for the term, the next you’re back off for a fortnight! It’s hard work being a student but before you pack your Christmas hat, Playstation and elf onesie don’t forget your end of term submissions! During November our team of Student Advisors ran a series of…

  • Audacity: Create Professional Audio Narrations for all your Learning Resources

    It’s usually around this time of the year when most of us free up some time to create or even review our learning resources for the new academic year. I know a lot of staff at Edge Hill are really starting to move away from standard PowerPoint based materials and producing some really engaging resources…

  • iSpring: Video Case Study 3 of 3

    iSpring Early Adopters Project: Video Case Study 3 In the Learning Technology Development team we’ve recently completed the early adopters’ project in the use of iSpring. Following on from Sertip and Maggies previous videos, we would now like to introduce Carl Simmons from the Faculty of Education. Carl shares his experience and advice from the iSpring…

  • iSpring: Video Case Study 2 of 3

    iSpring: Video Case Study 2 of 3

    iSpring Early Adopters Project: Video Case Study 2 In the Learning Technology Development team we’ve recently completed the early adopters’ project in the use of iSpring. Following on from Sertip in last month’s case study, we would now like to introduce Maggie Webster from the Faculty of Education. Maggie shares her experience in the iSpring…

  • iSpring: Video Case Study 1 of 3

    iSpring: Video Case Study 1 of 3

    iSpring Early Adopters Project: Video Case Study 1 In the Learning Technology Development team we’ve recently completed the early adopters project in the use of iSpring. Over the coming weeks we’ll be sharing the knowledge and experience of three selected participants who have successfully embedded iSpring into their eLearning toolkit and produced some impressive learning materials…

  • Keep Calm and Submit this Christmas

    Christmas comes around quick doesn’t it!? One minute you’re moving in to halls for the term, the next you’re back off for a fortnight! It’s hard work being a student but before you pack your Christmas hat, XBox and onesie don’t forget your end of term submissions! We’ve drawn together some good practice to ensure that your…

  • Blackboard Catalyst Award: How Learning Edge helped the win!

    The Learning Technology Development (LTD) Team has had a very successful 2014.  We’ve implemented and seen some great things happening with technology enhanced learning throughout the University.  More noticeably the faculty specific tabs and resources generated on Learning Edge and of course the continuing success of all the iSpring resources for staff and students. With…