Ally is a tool that improves the accessibility of digital files in Moodle. This helps the university to meet its legal responsibilities and ensure that the content we share is easily accessible to as many people as possible. Ally Indicators Addressing accessibility issues with your course content can improve …
Turnitin works from a 1-100 percentage scale and does not have the facility to introduce other scales. This is not a problem for undergraduate assessment which is marked as a percentage, but postgraduate assessment at the University is marked using the ‘Postgraduate Scale’, a scaling system with 16 bands. Marking …
Staff access to 2022-3 modules are now available after the roll forward from last session. Use the Course Overview filters to manage which modules appear in your Moodle dashboard. These are empty course shells and so contents from previous versions need to be imported. On this page is guidance for …
Moodle was upgraded to ensure Moodle continues to receive important security updates, and to combine feature improvements from versions 3.6 3.7 3.8 and 3.9. The most noticeable changes from the upgrade will include, Building courses: Turn editing on is a bright new button, the Activity chooser can star and view recommended activities and resources, and …
** Congratulations on being runner-up at the Guardian awards for Digital Innovation ** Anne Moylan, Lecturer in School of Health & Social Care, was developing a new short course in neonatal nurse education to be delivered at one of Vietnam’s largest hospitals. The course was to run in conjunction with …
Are you thinking of flipping your classroom, changing your assessments, or designing interactive learning materials? Are you aware of the technologies available to support your module’s classroom and online delivery? This presentation gave a tour of the University’s learning technology toolbox and was part of the inaugural Research and Learning …
During this academic session the University is moving the module evaluation surveys to an online system called EvaSys. The My Module Evaluations block has been placed on the Moodle dashboard alongside your course list (not within individual modules). It provides students with links to available evaluations in EvaSys, and provides staff with …
The Universty is looking to capture the student voice and respond proactively, and will be seeking to gain student feedback on their experience through a range of different mechanisms. The touchpoint survey has been developed as a helpful tool to enhance the practice that currently goes on across the University, …
Moodle has been upgraded to version 3.4 and here you will find details of the most noticeable changes. These include a new plugin for plagiarism checking within Moodle Assignments, a new plugin for creating interactive content, and a range of other enhancements designed to improve course design and management. Managing …
A reoccurring concern from students is the volume of unwanted emails in their University inbox which makes it harder for them to notice important messages. Busy email inboxes is a fact of life for everyone and we all make use of Outlook ‘rules’ to manage incoming messages. This article describes …