• ‘Digital Practitioner Series – What’s New With Service Pack 8′ – Session Notes

    For those who couldn’t make it to this week’s session on Blackboard’s recent Service Pack 8 update, I thought it would be worth making the session notes available. The notes take you through ten changes to Blackboard, including the new Text Editor, new Course Themes and Structures, as well as changes to the Tests tool.…

  • ‘Digital Practitioner Series – What’s New With Service Pack 8’ – Thursday 6th September 2012

    The next session in the Digital Practitioner staff development series will look at the recent update to Blackboard – Service Pack 8. Service Pack 8 was applied in July and adds improvements such as a new Text Editor, full support for Google’s Chrome browser, and a clearer interface. In this session we will show you…

  • Campus Pack: An Introduction to Wikis

    Campus Pack is a new addition to Learning Edge and one of the tools that comes with it is a Wiki tool. Wikis were originally created as a very simple way to put information online, that all users could edit. They weren’t designed to look pretty, just to be quick and easy to use. Wikis…

  • Podcasting with Campus Pack

    It is now possible to create podcasts within Learning Edge using the Campus Pack podcast tool. So exactly what is a podcast? A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of files (either audio or video) subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication (RSS Feeds) Podcasting lets you automatically receive…

  • Blackboard 9.1 Journal Tool – Reflections in Writing.

    JOURNAL Communication – Blackboard 9.1 offers new opportunities for using social communication tools including Journals, blogs and wikis.  The main difference between a blog and a journal is that blogs tend to be used for group debate and to comment, and the Journal tool for individual reflection.  Journals offer a personal writing space for self-reflection…

  • Creating Accessible Content

    Creating accessible content is an important aspect to consider when putting content in Learning Edge. It is important to make sure information is easily available to everybody. By using a simple tool from the Web to create content and using this in Learning Edge it can transform your course pages. The tool can be found…

  • Staff Reminder: Learning Edge Drop In 16.04.12

    Are you working on something new in Learning Edge? Do you want help or ideas? Staff are invited to visit the LINC Development* room at lunch time on Monday to: Explore the potential of Learning Edge Focus on enhancing current practice Resolve any queries These regular open door Drop In sessions have been organised to…

  • Staff Reminder: Learning Edge Drop In 03.04.12

    Are you working on something new in Learning Edge? Do you want help or ideas? Staff are invited to visit the LINC Development* room at lunch time tomorrow to: Explore the potential of Learning Edge Focus on enhancing current practice Resolve any queries These regular open door Drop In sessions have been organised to support…

  • Staff Reminder: Learning Edge Drop In 23.03.12

    Are you working on something new in Learning Edge? Do you want help or ideas? Staff are invited to visit the LINC Development* room at lunch time tomorrow to: Explore the potential of Learning Edge Focus on enhancing current practice Resolve any queries These regular open door Drop In sessions have been organised to support…

  • Staff Reminder: Learning Edge Drop In 05.03.12

    Are you working on something new in Learning Edge? Do you want help or ideas? Staff are invited to visit the LINC Development* room at lunch time on Monday to: Explore the potential of Learning Edge Focus on enhancing current practice Resolve any queries These regular open door Drop In sessions have been organised to…