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A Process for Assignments that Require Submission of a Recorded Presentation
Some assignments require students to submit a recording of a presentation, either as a video file or a PowerPoint file that contains audio. The 100MB file size limit in Turnitin occasionally causes problems for students during submission of this type of assignment. Therefore we have documented a process that uses Blackboard’s Assignment tool for submission.…
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STUDENT INTERN – A DIGITAL SUCCESS!
Last year we employed 19 Student Interns to support the transition from Blackboard Original to Ultra with some great results. One area where this worked particularly well was The Language Centre. Lucy McNally (Foreign Language Programme Coordinator and Language Tutor) did an excellent job of hosting one of our Interns Michelle Hopwood. Lucy completed a…
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Top 5 Tips for Online Assessments – Turnitin
Turnitin is an online tool which your department might ask you to use, to submit your assignments. Turnitin has features for online submission, online marking and feedback, and for helping lecturers check that the assignment is original. Your lecturers should teach you about proper referencing and avoiding plagiarism. #1. How to login to Turnitin You…
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Encourage Student Engagement with Key Texts: Join the Talis Elevate Pilot
Talis Elevate is a tool for collaboratively annotating learning resources, including PDF documents, images and videos. It can be used within Blackboard Ultra course areas. Elevate has been used for a range of purposes, including encouraging close reading, promoting active reading, recording and analysing student interaction with resources, and for activities that feed into class…
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Microsoft Bookings
Microsoft Bookings is a Microsoft 365 app that makes scheduling and managing appointments easy. Microsoft Bookings can be accessed through your Microsoft 365 account. Launch the app chooser (top left-hand corner) and search for Bookings. Follow the prompts to set up your bookings calendar and it will sync with your Teams/Outlook calendar. Some of the…
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LinkedIn Learning
As a mature student at Edge Hill University, I am among the few who are currently in education when the original and rather clunky version of LinkedIn launched. The nature of my work at that time required little engagement and no requirement for me to interact with the platform, so I knew very little of…
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Marking with Marky Mark – Managing the marking period stress free
Yes, it’s that time of year again… Exams are in full flow, the academic year is beginning to come to a close (for students perhaps!) and that means one thing… marking! It can be a stressful time for tutors with the (virtual) mountains of papers requiring a critical eye cast over them, for this reason…
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Time for Students to Lead Online?
Staff, and students alike have deliberated long and hard over when, where, and how they can work more collaboratively, either in taught sessions, while engaging in a group activity, or during activities that require distance participation. Look no further, Learning Services has the right solution for you, in the Blackboard Collaborate Ultra tool. There is greater emphasis…
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Turnitin Feedback Studio: Ready for marking
As we are swiftly heading on through this semester and towards end of term assessments we thought it would be helpful to once again highlight marking through Turnitin. Turnitin recently released Feedback Studio; an updated and revamped way of marking papers with some nifty new features such as page navigation and Grading/Similarity layers. Access to…
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Technology Supported Learning – Lecture Capture (Classic User)
Natalie Reynolds is a Senior Lecture in Secondary English. Natalie was introduced to lecture capture software (Panopto) during her own studies and immediately wanted to explore its potential on the programme she teachers here at Edge Hill University. Panopto software provides lecture capture, screen-casting, video streaming, and video content management solutions. The Panopto lecture…
