• 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…

  • Blackboard 9.1, behind the login page…

    We’ve talked about data systems integration, staff development activity and the imminent “people systems integration”, but what can students expect to find on the other side of the login page? Once logged in, Blackboard 9.1 provides an instant overview of each course a student is enrolled on and any related announcements or upcoming events. Students can…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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).…

  • 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…

  • I'm opening the envelope … and the winner is …

    If you are a regular reader of this blog you will know that we have been conducting a virtual learning environment (VLE) Review for this past academic year. If you are not a regular reader, a scan of earlier blog posts will soon bring you up to speed on the whys, hows, whens etc. As well…

  • The Story So Far….

    The team have been working over the past few weeks to bring together all the feedback and comments the VLE has generated.  We thought this would be a good time to share some of those points. The review has captured views of staff and students in a variety of ways and this has been a…

  • Check out the presentation and Moodle showcase from Coventry University

    We have had an busy and interesting  two weeks analysing the feedback from the presentations and demo’s from the 21st May event.  For those who couldn’t make it or anyone who would like to have a good look at some of the Moodle resources Coventry are using, the Coventry team have put together a web resource for…