• 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…

  • Staff Reminder: Learning Edge Drop In 12.01.12

    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…

  • Students – keep telling us what you think!

    There is still time to win one of our prizes (£50 Amazon vouchers, 2 x £25 Amazon vouchers or a 1GB USB wristband) by completing the fourth Students eLearning Survey. We have now had 327 responses to our survey so a big thank you to all those who have completed it so far, but we…

  • Taking the online survey to the student.

    How FM and LTD used tablet technologies for a student survey. In December Facilities Management wanted to know more about how students were using the HUB, and more specifically, the food services within the new building. They were considering how they could take a survey to the students, to encourage engagement, and maximise responses. Danielle…

  • Learning Edge Maintenance: Now Completed

    The essential maintenance in the AMS datacenter has been completed ahead of schedule – the second maintenance window scheduled for early Friday morning is not required. Full access to Learning Edge (Blackboard 9.1) has now been resumed. We apologise for any disruption this may have caused to you. Katherine Richardson LTD Operations Co-ordinator

  • Learning Edge Maintenance: System Unavailable Overnight – 29th & 30th December

    Learning Edge, Blackboard Learn (version 9.1.7) will be unavailable overnight (from midnight to 8:00 a.m) on the 29th and 30th of December while Blackboard Managed Hosting carry out essential maintenance in the AMS datacenter. This proactive maintenance will ensure the highest level of network performance and stability. The Blackboard engineers hope to complete the work…

  • You’ve got to be in it to win it …

    Our fourth Students eLearning Survey has only been open for a week and we’ve already had 180 responses – thank you to everyone who has completed it so far! As you know we are giving away one of our Learning Services USB wristbands for every 20th response so this means we have given 9 away…

  • Learning Edge Upgrade: System Unavailable – 19th-21st December

    Learning Edge (Blackboard 9.1) will be unavailable from 21:30 pm on Monday 19th December to 12:00 pm (midday) on Wednesday 21st December whilst the system is upgraded. This work will introduce several fixes to minor bugs and glitches and provide you with a more stable, reliable and feature rich system. For more information about the…

  • 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 –…

  • Students – win £50 Amazon vouchers!

    Believe it or not the time has come again for us to launch our annual students’ e-Learning survey! This is the fourth year we’ve ran this survey and it’s great that we’re able to build up a picture of our students’ experiences and expectations of technology and see trends emerging over the years. The survey…