On 1 March 2024, we will make a change in Blackboard whereby notifications for new content being added to a course will be disabled as a default for student users, with the option for students to be able to opt-in if they wish to continue receiving notifications for content.

Have you got what it takes to complete the Student Digital Experience Survey and take home the trophy? If you take on the challenge and help shape the digital future of Edge Hill University, you could be in with a chance of winning the jackpot prize – a £200 voucher of your choice. The sooner…

Over the past couple of years the pandemic brought challenges which required us to think differently about digital education and technology. Since then, experiences, confidence and expectations of digital education have changed for both staff and students. In collaboration with CLT and our Senior Solstice Fellows, we’re looking to gain insight into the support, guidance,…

Has your tutor set up a Blackboard Assignment dropbox to allow you to submit a video for Assessment? You don’t need to be a technical whiz to do this just follow the below instructions! Firstly, we always recommend using Google Chrome or Firefox when using Panopto. Pre-recording/Uploading your video using Panopto on a desktop device.…

This year the Learning Technology Team took on 20 digital student interns to work with us throughout the summer to help with the transition from Blackboard Original to Blackboard Ultra. We asked one of our digital student interns, Alice Carter, to tell us her top features of Blackboard Ultra. Having experienced both Original and Ultra…

JISC Online Surveys is used at Edge Hill by many researchers and staff for both research and other data gathering purposes. A previous blog post in February of this year outlined a planned migration to a new version by JISC, and the steps that survey owners needed to take in preparation.   N.B. This blog has…

Today, Thursday 27th July 2023, is National Interns Day and to celebrate we want to recognise all the achievements and hard work our digital interns have been doing while working with us over the summer. This is the third year we have ran the digital student internship and this year we were lucky enough to…

The last Thursday in July marks National Internship Day for many international students, and this year Edge Hill University has employed 20 digital interns to work alongside the Learning Technology Development team to support the move from Blackboard Original to Blackboard Ultra. One of our student interns, Michelle Hopwood, has given us her account of…

With the growth in awareness and use of ‘Generative AI’ tools, there are a lot of things that Universities need to do and consider. One of the things we want to do is to help academic staff improve their understanding of these tools so they can talk more confidently to students about them. To help…

If you use the video courses on LinkedIn Learning you may be interested in Skill Evaluations. These are self-evaluations of your knowledge. Links to Skill Evaluations can be found at the top of LinkedIn Learning’s search results pages. After completion you are given suggestions of courses suitable for your skill levels. LinkedIn also has Skill…