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Digital Tools Webinars

Beginning August 23rd and running throughout September, the Learning Technology Support team will be delivering webinars to highlight the wide range of tools available to support your students. Each webinar  runs from 1100-1200 and will focus on one of the topics below, so register your place on the IS Training …

Moodle 3.9 Upgrade

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 …

MS Teams Training Event

Our Microsoft partner is providing a second ‘MS Teams for Education’ training event on Thursday 4th March. Registration is not essential but would be appreciated using the IS Events Calendar. The event is open to both new and existing Teams users and the session will be recorded. The event will …

Webex Meetings Update

Cisco continue to apply updates to our Webex Meetings platform which are summarised below. Staff who are still using Webex Trainings should consider switching to the more modern Webex Meetings. The ability to ‘Substitute as Host’ in the Webex-Moodle plugin is no longer available. The named Host can be changed …

Open Webex sessions

The open session have come to an end so please contact the Learning Technology Support team for Webex support, and view the Webex pages for help guides for staff and students. June 2020 Monday 1st, 1200-1300, Join here Tuesday 2nd, 1200-1300, Join here Wednesday 3rd, 1200-1300, Join here Thursday 4th, …

MEDIALecture replaces Camtasia Relay

Camtasia Relay is no longer supported by the parent company (Techsmith) and the University has withdrawn it from service. Any videos created by Camtasia Relay which are stored in the online video server are unaffected by this withdrawal. MEDIALecture is the replacement screen recorder which connects directly to the online …

Learning Technology staff development events

Over August/September/October we are running our regular Learning Technology sessions (online and f2f), and a TurningPoint Lunch & Learn event that includes (lunch!) presentations from academics on their approach to classroom voting, a participative tour of new features and hands-on training. We have also launched a self-paced Moodle Induction course …

What’s In Your Learning Technology Toolbox?

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 …