Turnitin will have a new look and feel from 25th July 2017 when we update to the new Feedback Studio. While the process of accessing and setting up Turnitin assignments will not change, there will be several improvements to the way you can provide feedback and view originality reports. New features include: A new layer…Continue Reading Introducing Turnitin Feedback Studio
The ninth annual Learning at City Conference will take place on 21st June 2017. The call for abstracts closes tomorrow, 8th March at midnight. Thank you to all those that have submitted so far! Submit your abstract now The overall theme for the conference focuses on Developing Theory into Practice in Higher Education Within this…Continue Reading Last orders! Learning at City Conference 2017 | Call for abstracts close 8th March at midnight!
Moodle will be updated to version 3.2 on 27 June 2017. This blog post reports on the findings from our evaluation. We are using the findings to inform our work for the annual Moodle update. Identifying the pain points In term 1, LEaD and ERES gathered staff and student experiences of Moodle and Turnitin to…Continue Reading Moodle 3.2 Priorities
1st March 2-5pm Trainspotting (1996) Trainspotting (1996) depicts a story about heroin users in Edinburgh in the 1980s and 90s. On 1st March the SHS film clubs screening was introduced by mental health nursing senior lecturer Lorna Saunder with an exploration of the challenges of and success in caring for heroin users in the…Continue Reading School of Health Sciences Film Club
At the beginning of October 2016, LEaD loaned a touchscreen tablet and stylus to Professor Keith Pullen to enable him to provide hand-written notations and feedback on online assignment submissions. Keith is a Professor of Energy Systems, who teaches Part 4 Design for Mechanical Engineering students. The students on the course are required to produce…Continue Reading Marking electronic submissions with a touchscreen
Annual Moodle Update Moodle will be updated to version 3.2 this summer. Here are some of the key dates for your calendars. Moodle update Moodle will be updated to version 3.2 on 27 June 2017. For the third year, the annual Moodle update will take place on the last Tuesday in June. Tuesday morning is…Continue Reading Moodle 3.2 Key Dates
This month’s theme for the LEaD Writing Group was creativity. We started by using an activity suggested by Heather Leach in The Road to Somewhere: A Creative Writing Companion. Stretch the imaginative muscle (Leach, 2014). Choose any object that you have around you. In our case, I gave the participants a book. Make a list…Continue Reading LEaD Writing Group – Developing your creativity
Recently, I was lucky enough to attend the annual BETT exhibition . This was my third visit to BETT since 2010 and my first with an HE hat on. It continues to grow in size and frankly the quantity of stuff on display boggles the mind. Here are a few of my key impressions of the…Continue Reading BETT 2017 -The potential and challenges of technology enhanced learning
Before Christmas I was able to spend some time with a Structure 3D sensor, which is used to scan everyday objects and produce 3D models of them. This is quite an experimental piece of technology that we are using to explore the possible applications of 3D models in engineering teaching in SMCSE. We are hoping…Continue Reading 3D Scanning with the iPad
As the new year and the new academic term get under way, I find myself thinking again of the implications of the ‘Virtual Learning Environment’ (Moodle in our case). As an exercise in reflective practice, I share the following notes….Continue Reading On the ‘L’ in VLEs’: Flipping Attention Back to the Classroom