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Let’s use PowerPoint to move away from PowerPoint with iSpring!
Love it or hate it, Microsoft PowerPoint has been the go-to tool for learning content for many years now and it will more than likely continue to be a staple in the Learning Edge tool box for years to come. As we all know PowerPoint does have its limitations when incorporating multimedia + instructional tools…
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Screencasting Formative Feedback
How one tutor increased students’ engagement with feedback. In this video blog post Carl Simmons explains why assessment is so problematic and suggests how tutors can increase the amount of useful information that students receive using screen and voice recording software. The issues are: Good quality feedback consumes significant tutor resource; Students tend not to…
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Learning Edge Upgrade Success!
The scheduled summer upgrade has been completed successfully and you can now login to Learning Edge as normal. The upgrade introduces a number of improvements – most significantly a new true student preview and anonymous & delegated grading options. Where can you learn more? As mentioned in a previous blog post, the LTD team will be hosting…
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Summer 2014 – Blackboard Upgrade Awareness Webinar
Summer each year allows a window of opportunity for Learning Technology to update Blackboard to the latest version, containing new features and fixing a number of niggles. This year, the upgrade will occur on the evening of Sunday 20th July into the morning of Monday 21st July. During this time, there will be no access…
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Learning Edge Upgrade 20-21 July 2014 – What’s coming this summer
The summer is on the horizon, bringing with it not only better weather but a better Learning Edge too! We are currently working with Blackboard to introduce a number of new features which will improve your experience and use of Learning Edge. The upgrade will introduce exciting innovations as well as improvements to core capabilities, some…
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Introduction to Profiles and Social Learning Tools in Blackboard
Blackboard’s ‘Social Learning Tools’ form a small scale social networking style environment within Blackboard, which your students can use outside of their course areas. They include the Profile tool, People tool, Messages tool, and Spaces tool. The Profile tool will be the one you are most likely to have noticed. The profile pictures feed into…
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Alas Prescott and Ellis
… it’s a bit like having a tutorial with you … An initial request to create an online session for the PG Cert in HE has resulted in a wealth of video resources ranging from academic writing to change management and leadership that are now used across a number of programmes in the Faculty of…
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Are you sitting comfortably? Start your dissertation the easy way!
Are you getting ready to start your dissertation? Here is an opportunity to learn some new skills in a place that suits you! Not finding the results you require when searching online, on the library catalogue or journal databases? Then you need to attend the live webinar to gain some new skills which will improve…
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Blackboard Community Update for Learning Edge: Your Chance to have a Sneak Peek on 15th Jan
Hey folks, we’re doing a live webinar session on Wednesday 15th Jan to give you the very first look of how our new Blackboard add-on ‘Community‘ is going to look like. Don’t be the last to know! Join us online for a very short session showing you the highlights of the new features. Follow the…
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Don’t be the last to know! Sneak peek of Community 9th January 1pm
We’re doing a session tomorrow to give you the very first look of how our new Blackboard add-on ‘Community Edition‘ is going to look like. Don’t be the last to know! Join us online for a very short session showing you the highlights of the new features. Follow the link below on our new dedicated…
