Course areas for the 2025/26 academic year are now live! Faculty Administrators can begin enrolling Programme and Module Leaders onto their spaces.  This year’s areas come with a refreshed template, designed to support you in building high-quality courses and improving the student experience. Here’s what’s new: 

Did you know you can now convert a Blackboard folder into a Learning Module with the click of a button? Simply click the 3 dots to the right of the folder and select Create Learning Module.

Interactive teaching tools have become essential in keeping students engaged during lectures. We spoke with Dr John Shaw a Senior Lecturer in Psychology here at Edge Hill University, who has been using Vevox to enhance student participation. Here’s what he had to say about his experience.

In recent months, we’ve seen a growing trend in the use of online tools to boost student engagement and collaboration, and it’s easy to understand why! Our institution offers licenses for both Padlet and Vevox. While we’ve already covered Padlet in a previous post, it’s time to highlight the fantastic features of Vevox!  Vevox is…

The September updates to Blackboard will introduce several significant improvements that will benefit academics, students, and course administrators. These updates focus on enhancing instructional design, improving the course content page, and supporting learner progression.

Blackboard have just released one of the most impactful enhancements in course design with Document pages. Document pages are a great way to create and present a variety of visual elements. The good news is that they are now even easier to create, and the new content designer gives you more options on how to lay…

An update to Release Conditions means you can now create multiple rules to govern the release of content to students, limiting access to content until conditions for at least one rule is met.  If you used Blackboard Original in the past this is similar to Advanced Adaptive Release but much simpler to use! You can…

Last year we collaborated with a module leader managing a relatively large cohort of students who wanted to organise the class into groups of students. Her objectives were to: All of this was achieved by using the Groups tool within Blackboard. Groups of Students working together on Discussion Boards A Group Set was created called…

Are you an Edge Hill student looking for a summer opportunity to enhance your employability while earning money and working as part of a team? Look no further than our Digital Student Internship! Starting June 10th, 2024, this 10-week paid program offers three positions, with two interns per role, fostering potential teamwork across positions. You’ll…