Issue 8 – April 2024
The lead item concerns our imminent Focus on Digital Learning week (29th April – 3rd May) which includes several sessions on Generative AI, Canvas, XR, and more…
Contents:
Issue 7 - January 2024
Issue 7 – January 2024
Contents:
- 2024 SoSS ‘Focus on Digital Learning’ Week
- eLearning on-campus drop-in session
- eLearning online support via Zoom
- Blackboard homepage change – end of January
- What Works in Teaching? Things to Try
- Learning design case studies
- PeerScholar (Eduflow replacement) online showcase event
- VR@Manchester on-campus Extended Reality event
- Humanities eLearning staff training and development
- Video Tutorial: How to save information from “Bookings with Me” in Excel using Power Automate
- SoSS T&L website: new blog posts from academics
Issue 6 - October 2023
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Issue 6 – October 2023
Contents:
- Replacing Blackboard in 2025
- Humanities eLearning staff training and development
- Video tutorial (repeat): Using Outlook “Bookings with Me” to schedule meetings (e.g. with students)
- ITL Open Workshop: Developing Student Understanding of Assessment Criteria through Peer Marking
- Workshop: Education enhancement in the Faculty of Humanities
- eLearning Team staff changes
- Blackboard homepage change for Semester 2
- 2-factor authentication (Duo) for students
- SoSS eLearning Twitter account
- SoSS T&L website
- How to get help from the eLearning Team
Issue 5 - July 2023
Issue 5 – July 2023
Contents:
- Cadmus 2023/24 – register your interest (now!)
- New principles from the Russell Group on the use of AI in education
- Blackboard course activation for 2023/24
- Replacement for Blackboard
- Library support for your Welcome activities
- Top Tip: Add a personalised message to your Blackboard course
- Staff Development and Training Summer update
- Video tutorial: Using Outlook “Bookings with Me” to schedule meetings (e.g. with students)
- Teaching and Learning Conference 2023
- Teaching Online Workshops 2022/23 catchup
- Call for Good Practice in Teaching podcasts and articles
- eLearning Zoom drop-in summer hours
Issue 4 - April 2023
Issue 4 – April 2023
Contents:
- Teaching Online Workshops
- Designing Your Own Cheat-Proof Multiple-Choice Exams to Improve Higher-Level Thinking Skills – on campus workshop
- The University of Manchester Teaching and Learning Conference 2023
- Box of Broadcasts – embedding On Demand TV and Radio into your courses
- Staff Development and Training Spring Update
- Staff eLearning Champions
- Top Tip: Hypothes.is – how to annotate PDFs when they are images not text
- Managing meetings and bookings – Linking MS Bookings to Excel via Power Automate
- Reminder for contacting eLearning Support
Issue 3 - Feb 2023
Issue 3 – Feb 2023
- Resources for new academics
- Drop-In: a reminder of our 1-2-1 support service
- Funding available for Flexible Learning Pilots
- Cadmus: a new tool aiming to reduce academic malpractice
- Mentimeter: a tool for live polling and more
- Hypothes.is – the social annotation tool
- Using MS Bookings to allow students to book a meeting
- Accessibility in Online Teaching: new self paced course
- Turnitin: a change to the paper deletion process
- Remote production equipment available
- New SoSS eLearning Staff
Issue 2 - April 2022
Issue 2 – April 2022
- SoSS Teaching and Learning website
- Being Organised, Structured and Communicating Effectively – Teaching Online Workshop
- Camtasia and Snagit – new screen capture tools
- Using ‘Meeting Owls’ for hybrid sessions
- Gradescope training – marking coding assignments, including auto-grading
- VoiceThread training – new features training session
- Möbius training – online adaptive assignments
- Institute of Teaching and Learning open workshops
- Staff Development training available
- Meet the SoSS eLearning Team
Issue 1 - Feb 2022
Issue 1 – Feb 2022
- Blackboard & Turnitin Changes
- Piazza vs Padlet vs Blackboard Discussion Boards – Teaching Online Workshop
- Staff Development Training Available
- Gradescope – New tool in Bb allows marking of hand written and coding assignments
- Hypothesis – New tool in Bb for annotating on the web and group reading with students
- Adobe Spark is now Adobe CC Express
- The SoSS eLearning Team
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