Microsoft OneDrive has some great features that can simplify how you manage content in your VLE. Embedding files can save you time and help your students access content more easily. You can manage all of your content from OneDrive and if you make any changes to the files, your students see the updates straight away in the VLE without you having to do anything else!
As usual, we’ll be making some improvements to the Blackboard website this summer. We are going to be working on a number of things: Software Improvements. A large number of software improvements & fixes for various issues. In particular, we
The Academic Registry – LTE team offers a number of professional development opportunities for academic staff. Our CPD sessions are especially designed to meet the needs of our academic staff…
Earlier this year a few colleagues and I attended the Blackboard User’s Conference, organised annually by Durham University. It’s one of the better conferences in our field and is always really well organised by our counterparts over in Durham…
A new version of our popular Batch Feedback tool was released on Blackboard last month. This new version provides a revamped user interface and new functionality, offering an improved user experience. Original Version The Batch Feedback tool was originally
This guide takes a look at some of the pedagogic implications of using quizzes in your on-line module. It’s not a technical document, but will hopefully stimulate some ideas and thoughts about using quizzes. http://docs.google.com/gview?url=https://blogs.tees.ac.uk/lteonline/files/2015/02/PedagogyGuideQuizzes1.pdf&embedded=truePedagogyGuideQuizzes
This document takes a look at different uses and the pedagogic implications of using discussion boards in your module. Whilst it is not a technical document, it does focus on the pros and cons of the discussion boards provided in
The following document explores the uses of blogs and journals in an on-line module. It is not meant to be a technical guide, and it focuses more on the pedagogy of using these tools. Whilst not specifically technical, it is
Introduction In this blog post we are going to take a quick look at 10 sites that will let you produce beautiful looking quotations. With (typically) minimal effort you can create some really nice quotes as images that can brighten
