Learning Central Blackboard assignments upgrade

Posted on 11 January 2018 by Martin Nosek

**Please bear in mind that this does not affect Turnitin assignments or Feedback Studio** As you may have noticed, there’s been an upgrade to Blackboard assignments on Learning Central. The only change is in grading interface for Blackboard assignments known as Crocodoc. All other steps including creation of Blackboard assignments and submissions are still the
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Mobile learning and Learning Central

Posted on 9 January 2018 by Martin Nosek

I have recently been investigating the delivery of mobile learning via Blackboard mobile applications for the blog. Learning Central users have access to a mobile application that is available to use. There are separate applications for students and instructors, and it’s useful to know you can work on or study your modules “on the move”!
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PANOPTO your first PREZI

Posted on 21 July 2017 by Martin Nosek

Whether you are Prezi expert, or thinking about using it for the first time, we’ll take a look at its new features and combining it with the University’s capture system – Panopto. Before we start, there’s a couple of things to note about using free web tools: Sites now often offer “freemium” services (the word
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Creating a Journal for Students within Learning Central

Posted on 24 July 2015 by Dewi Parry

by Dewi Parry We received a query this week about setting up a journal within Learning Central, where students could post entries, and where only the module lecturer and the individual student could see the post. I thought the best way to show this would be to create a screencast, so here goes: There is
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The Use of Blogs for Teaching and Learning

Posted on 24 July 2015 by Jin Tan

by Jin Tan Recently we received some requests from schools about allowing students to create blogs as part of their courses using Cardiff University Blogs, but restricting access to just lecturers and students. The Cardiff University Blogs platform is currently designed for public blogging. Although you could do so by password protecting posts, it may
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Introducing Learn Plus (Panopto) and Blackboard Collaborate

Posted on 23 June 2015 by Dewi Parry

by Dewi Parry The University is investing in two new learning technologies this summer designed to help you do more with teaching. These are Learn Plus and Collaborate. So, this week, we’re going to give a bit of an explanation about these. Both these technologies have already been used within University departments, and we are
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Turnitin (and a bit more besides)!

Posted on 13 May 2015 by Catherine Emmett

by Catherine Emmett As Dewi mentioned in a recent blog post, the LTET, ELTT and Medic E-learning teams have been working together to put together a range of FAQs about Turnitin. You can find them all at this address: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/Turnitin It’s a work in progress, and currently most of the FAQs relate to key parts of the workflow
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Learning Central Grade Centre – Creating Weighted Score Columns

Posted on 11 May 2015 by Dewi Parry

by Dewi Parry It’s been a while since our last update, but we do have a couple of new things to tell you about. ELTT has been assisting our friends in the LTE team on a new Turnitin and Grademark FAQ resource, along with the MEDIC eLearning team – a blog post will follow on that soon. Plus, all
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One:many communication – Forwarding replies to Learning Central e-mails on to a generic account

Posted on 15 January 2015 by Dewi Parry

By Dewi Parry and Catherine Emmett Happy new year! We hope you all enjoyed your time off! For this week’s blog post, we have a joint post with guest, Catherine Emmett, who works in the Learning Technology Systems team. We’re going to focus in this post on a query we got from one of our Schools
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Welcome Gethin Rowlands to the ELTT

Posted on 9 December 2014 by Gethin Rowlands

A very warm welcome to Gethin, who started last week and joins us from Coleg Gwent. Gethin writes his first blog post about his experience, his first week, and the Learning Technology challenges here at Cardiff University. by Gethin Môn Rowlands This is my second week working for the ELTT team at Cardiff University, and
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