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Upgrade to the eShare repository
Please make a note in your diaries. On May 2nd 2017 our eShare repository will be upgraded to the latest version of the core ePrints repository software. We have been informed that for 48 hours, the repository will be ‘at risk’. Access to the repository will be frozen, therefore staff will be unable to upload…
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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…
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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…
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eShare – staff development
What is eShare? Why do we have it? How can it benefit me? Come along on Wednesday 16th January for an introduction to our digital repository for teaching and learning and see how you can make the most of eShare. eShare offers you the opportunity to showcase your work to the world, store presentations, videos…
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eShare – Staff Development
What is eShare? Why do we have it? How can it benefit me? Come along tomorrow for an introduction to our digital repository for teaching and learning and see how you can make the most of eShare. eShare offers you the opportunity to showcase your work to the world, store presentations, videos and images in…
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What technologies did you get for Christmas?
Many of you lucky folks will have been fortunate enough to have received amazing new personal technologies or tools this Christmas and we’d love to hear about what you’ve got and how you’re using them in your studies, or for your teaching. You can use the comments box below to tell us all about how…
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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 –…
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Emerging Technologies Session: Using Audio and Video in Teaching and Learning
The next session in the Emerging Technologies staff development series will be an overview of using audio and video with your students. It will run on Wednesday 7th December between 1 and 2pm and you can book on the staff development pages. We’ll look at six possible uses of audio and video: Online sessions Recording…
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Introducing eShare
eShare is a repository for managing the universities growing volume of digital teaching and learning content for its use within Blackboard. Why use eShare? a digital home for teaching and learning resources enables better management of the lifecycle of teaching and learning resources easily upload, download and share resources store your presentations, videos, images and…
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Blackboard 9.1, behind the login page…
We’ve talked about data systems integration, staff development activity and the imminent “people systems integration”, but what can students expect to find on the other side of the login page? Once logged in, Blackboard 9.1 provides an instant overview of each course a student is enrolled on and any related announcements or upcoming events. Students can…