Author: Jan Thomson (TELT) We are pleased to announce that Blackboard is now running as a cloud hosted (SaaS) service. All existing courses and data, as of the morning of the 11th July 2019, have now been fully migrated to the new service. Benefits of managed hosting (SaaS) include: A Read more…
Author: Jan Thomson, TELT We are pleased to announce that Blackboard, the University’s Virtual Learning Environment is moving to a managed hosting (SaaS) deployment method over the summer. This will take place between the 11th to the 15th July 2019. Please be aware that this will involve an estimated 2-3 Read more…
Author: Simon Hawkesworth, TELT Contract cheating, where a student either contracts someone to write the submission for them or has the content provided for them by another party, is an issue that’s increasingly troubling the HE sector. The fact that contract cheating can act to undermine academic integrity is compounded Read more…
Author: Chris Melia, TELT It’s been just over two years since the release of Microsoft’s collaborative workspace – Microsoft Teams, so what better time to share some advice and tips around how you can obtain and increase learner engagement with the platform. Organising your Team Appropriately title the Team to Read more…
Author: Simon Hawkesworth, TELT Turnitin’s GradeMark tool allows tutors to add a range of feedback formats to student papers. Staff can include short text comments, larger general comments, audio clips and grading schemes. One of the most widely used options is QuickMarks. Here tutor create and apply pre-set text comments Read more…
Author: Kerry Pollard – Senior Lecturer (School of Community Health and Midwifery) One PowerPoint add on I use frequently within the classroom is Meetoo. Meetoo is a real-time messaging and polling app that can be used by students in and out of the classroom. Students download the app on their Read more…
Author: Jan Thomson, TELT There are lots of enhancements and updated features following the annual Blackboard upgrade that recently took place. Some of the key changes are outlined below, but the full list is available to view via our special upgrade edition of the Blackboard Bulletin. Microsoft One Note Class Read more…
Author: Val Lawrenson SFHEA Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching valawreson@uclan.ac.uk I have been an academic at the university since 2000. I am the academic liaison representative on the Technology Enabled Learning Team. Part of my role is to bring an academics perspective to the discussions around the integration of Read more…
Author: Caroline Carlin. Microsoft Forms is a relatively new Microsoft online app and part of the Office 365 suite. Forms has two components; Forms which enable you to create surveys and offer a great alternative to Survey Monkey (supports up to 5000 responses which can be exported to Excel for analysis) and Quizzes. So what’s so great about the Read more…