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Blackboard Mobile and Clinical Education
I was recently asked to present on how the Clinical Education programme uses Blackboard Mobile to deliver their blended learning courses to students. Unfortunately I couldn’t be there on the day – so I made a video to demonstrate instead. The video demonstrates how the Clinical Education programme organises it’s Blackboard course to be mobile…
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eAssignments: Which is the right tool for me?
eAssessment is gaining more and more popularity in the HE sector. Students are demanding the convenience that electronic submission gives them and so with a number of tools on offer within Learning Edge you have the opportunity to give your students what they are looking for. Learning Edge currently has 3 tools to allow your…
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‘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…
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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…
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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…
