• 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…

  • 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…

  • Keep Calm and Submit this Christmas

    The smell of spices, alcohol and pine, warm log fires, spending time with family and friends, crackers, pudding and brandy cream… Yes! It must be that time of year… end of semester one before Christmas and time for submissions! We’ve drawn together some good practice to ensure that your submissions over the next week go…

  • Are you appy with your mobile?

    Helping you get the most out of educational apps In the summer we asked you (our students) about how you use your mobile phones and we received some great feedback. In relation to one particular question of use, you told us that on the whole you used apps, but aren’t sure which ones may help…

  • Your Digital Tattoo: What the web says about you! – For Staff

    Is how you present yourselves online important? When people search for information about you what might they find, and how does that affect your reputation and employability? How can you take control of what people can find about you online? Over the last few years we’ve spoken with hundreds of Edge Hill students about issues…

  • Expired Passwords Need Your Attention

    We’ve established an excellent record of Learning Edge Blackboard 9.1 availability (achieving 99.95% uptime last year) and we take your need to access the system very seriously. So, on Monday, having noted a higher volume of calls to the helpdesk and tweets from some of you saying that you’d been having trouble accessing Blackboard we…

  • Facts and Figures about Mobile Technology

    Over the last 40 years, mobile technology developments have changed the way we engage with content, communicate, collaborate and learn. Device ownership has reached a critical mass globally, with CISCO (2013) reporting that by the end of this year there will be more mobile-connected devices than there are people on earth! In the UK, 61%…

  • Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards…Journals for reflection

    Reflection in UG and PG programmes has become a very important element of assessment and one that is often regared as a key skill in teaching and learning by leading educational theorists (Schon, Kolb, Brookfield etc.) With this in mind, I thought that a short blog on one of the commonly overlooked tools in Blackboard was…

  • iOS SOS: mobile users need your help!

    As more of our students are using devices such as iPads and iPhones – which do not have Microsoft packages installed – we need to change the way we save items in eShare so that students can view them whichever device they are using.  PDF is the way forward! There’s a simple solution – save…

  • Developing Digital Excellence programme

              Opportunities in November to find out more about using technology within your teaching and learning and research.   Learning Services teams are delivering a range of sessions within our Developing Digital Excellence programme. Our Learning Technology Development team have developed a number of specific sessions around using some of the key…