• A collaborative experience that engages everyone, every time, everywhere

    It is now possible to engage with your students wherever they are. Keep them engaged offering them collaborative and interactive activities and a learning experience. This can be done all through the new platform Blackboard Collaborate. It allows you to create virtual classrooms to deliver presentations, show videos, show websites, communicate synchronously in real time,…

  • Viva Las Vegas…The 2013 Blackboard Exemplary Course Program is now open!

    Have you got a well-designed Blackboard module area that you’d like to gain recognition for? Since its launch in 2000, Blackboard opens its Exemplary Course Program (ECP) each year.  The aim is to support the use of e-Learning technology more effectively by identifying and disseminating best practices for designing engaging online courses. Using Blackboard’s rubric,…

  • 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…

  • Where’s the subscribe button gone?

                  Blackboard 9.1 Discussion Board Forum – Subscription Button You may or may not have noticed that the Subscribe button has recently taken a break from its duties. Well you’ll be happy to know you can fix this! In Control Panel open customisation and click on Tool Availability.         Within…

  • Blackboard Mobile and Clinical Education

    I was recently asked to present on how the Clinical Education programme uses Blackboard Mobile to deliver their blended learning courses to students.  Unfortunately I couldn’t be there on the day – so I made a video to demonstrate instead. The video demonstrates how the Clinical Education programme organises it’s Blackboard course to be mobile…

  • Accessible and Inclusive Design: Session Notes

    For those who couldn’t make it to this week’s session on creating accessible content I thought it would be worth making the session notes available. In the session we looked at how content uploaded to Edge Hill’s Learning Edge online learning environment can be created in ways that make it more accessible to a wide…

  • eAssignments: Which is the right tool for me?

    eAssessment is gaining more and more popularity in the HE sector.  Students are demanding the convenience that electronic submission gives them and so with a number of tools on offer within Learning Edge you have the opportunity to give your students what they are looking for. Learning Edge currently has 3 tools to allow your…

  • Students have your say – and win Amazon vouchers #2

    My last blog post focused on last year’s student eLearning survey winners so I thought this time it  would be helpful to explain why we think the annual survey is so important. The Student eLearning Survey is now 5 years old and is an important means of finding out how technology supports student learning at…

  • 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…

  • Developing Digital Excellence – Come with us on a mobile field trip

    Are you a member of staff who wants to connect even more with your students who are using their mobile devices? This development session, as part of the Learning Services Developing Digital Excellence staff development programme, could be perfect for you. Join us on Thursday 25th October 12.00pm – 1.00pm.  We are starting in the Staff Development training…