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Create a Profile on Blackboard
Blackboard’s ‘Social Learning Tools’ form a small scale social networking style environment within Blackboard, which students can use outside of their course areas. They include the Profile tool, People tool, Messages tool, and Spaces tool. The Profile tool is the one you are most likely to be interested in. This allows you to add a…
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Award Winning Leadership in Mobile Teaching and Learning!
Learning Services have been awarded a Mobile Innovation Award as part of the 2013 Blackboard Catalyst Award programme. This exciting achievement recognises the impressive growth of mobile enhanced provision and practice at Edge Hill University and specifically, Learning Services’ strategic approach to supporting all staff and students to embrace the educational affordances of mobile technology.…
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Edge Hill has its very own Mobile App!
After some careful time in development the very first dedicated Edge Hill University app is now available on Android as well as iOS! Available via free download from the Apple Apps or Google Play stores, the new app brings together useful and interesting features, functions and fun – from Flickr and YouTube to Blackboard Mobile…
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Emerging Technologies Staff Development Monday 21 November 2011 – The Right Image For Blackboard
Want to learn how to make your images more accessible? By optimising them you are creating a resource which is both less demanding on Blackboard and eShare storage and also more usable by your intended audience. Image optimisation is using the most compressed (smallest file size) which remains visually acceptable for the specific role of…
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Winners of students e-learning survey!
We are pleased to announce the winners of EHU’s third annual e-Learning survey! First prize of £50 Amazon vouchers went to Helen Gadie, a 3rd year Psychology student. She popped into the SOLSTICE office to pick up her prize and is pictured here with EHU’s e-Learning Strategy & Development Manager, Lindsey Martin. The two runner…
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Campus Pack: 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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Students – last chance to win Amazon vouchers!
We now have 740 responses to our third annual students e-learning survey and only need another 35 to match the number of responses we had last year…..so please take a few minutes to complete the survey if you’ve not already done so. A grand prize of a £50 Amazon voucher and two runner up prizes…
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Students, time is running out! Have your say with the EHU students e-learning survey…
We’re now in the last week of our third annual EHU students e-Learning Survey and would like to encourage any student who hasn’t already completed it to do so before it’s too late! 692 students have already responded (thank you!) and last year we had a total of 775 respondents so we would love it…