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Making things happen: behind the scenes (part 1)
Previous blog posts have focused on the technical and staff development activity involved in moving to Blackboard 9.1. This time, we thought we’d introduce the teams who are making all this happen. First off is (most of) the team from Learning Services pictured below: Standing L-R: Peter Beaumont, Carol Chatten, David Callaghan, Lisa Farnworth, Martin…
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Working under the radar … Blackboard 9.1 update
One of the lessons I am learning about implementing a major technology project is that there are quite long stretches of time when nothing really newsworthy happens – there is a huge amount of work going on but very little of it is of interest to the majority of our readers. I could write more…
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Campus Pack Awareness Sessions: more than just an ePortfolio
Over the past few months we have been evaluating Campus Pack: a powerful ‘building block’ to further extend the potential of Learning Edge. It offers all students a personal area where they can create blogs, wikis, journals and podcasts, and allows us to build templates for things like CVs, ePortfolios, and PDP. As students own…
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Blackboard 9.1 Academic Staff Development Launches in FAS
Following on from recent work preparing the departmental administration teams to use Blackboard, we have now started working with the academic staff in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to prepare them for the upgrade. The process has begun with face-to-face sessions being delivered to each department with the aim of making sure everyone can…
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Blackboard 9.1 is now out of the box!
With the systems integration (described in the last blog post) now complete, the Blackboard 9.1 project has achieved a further two milestones and finally moved out into open view. All three faculties are now running a small number of 9.1 pilots and ‘touch wood’, are progressing well. We’ve deliberately kept to a small number of…
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Journey to 9.1 … the first milestone and a big Thank You
The week leading up to the end of the last semester saw us achieve a big milestone in the move from our current version of Blackboard to the latest version (Blackboard Learn 9.1). Colleagues from each Faculty, IT Services, Academic Registry, Learning Services and Teaching and Learning Development came together to work with Blackboard Consulting to…
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Students, have your say – the EHU Student eLearning Survey #3
Where does the time go? The third EHU student eLearning survey went live last Friday and lots of you have already been taking time out to fill it in. Telling us your experiences and expectations of technology to support your learning helps us to understand what works and what hinders. Last year we had 775 completed questionnaires…
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Welcome to the LearningEdge
Regular readers might be forgiven for wondering what has become of the VLE Review blog. With the review now over an implementation project has taken over. To reflect this new focus, the blog has been renamed and given a makeover. The name change isn’t just for the blog, it covers the whole virtual learning environment (VLE).…
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Introduction to Blackboard 9.1
Learning Technology Development are working closely with Faculties to introduce staff to the new features and functionality of Blackboard 9.1. A recorded version of of the Introduction to 9.1 Presentation currently being offered to Faculty Champions and Faculty of Education Teams is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmeq1BlIs1I. The video is about 6 minutes long and gives a brief…
