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Uploading a Turnitin assignment on behalf of a student

Posted on 19 February 2015 by Dewi Parry

As a rule Turnitin is designed specifically so that students can easily submit their assignment to you electronically, however, there may be rare occasions where this is not possible. In […]

Setting up a Turnitin assignment

Posted on 19 February 2015 by Dewi Parry

This narrated screencast by Allan Theophanides is designed to show you how to easily set up a Turnitin Assignment, which then allows you to receive student assignments electronically.  The tutorial […]

Learn Plus is Coming!

Posted on 17 February 2015 by Dewi Parry

This in not the Learn Plus logo!! The ELTT team have been having a lot of meetings with the Learn Plus (formerly Lectures Online) project team recently, in particular around […]

Mixing it up: interactive online learning with OfficeMix

Posted on 4 February 2015 by Dewi Parry

Catherine Emmett and Christopher Evans We've been hearing a lot more recently about the continuing development of a tool called Office Mix (currently in Beta) which is designed to help […]

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 […]

Free Open Educational Resources (OER)

Posted on 10 December 2014 by Dewi Parry

by Dewi Parry I went to an OER workshop a couple of weeks ago, run by CoPILOT (Community of Practice for Information Literacy Online Teaching), and I promised to let Catherine […]

Accessing LearningCentral (Blackboard) content offline using an Application Cache

Posted on 3 December 2014 by Dewi Parry

by Christopher John (guest blogger) Chris is the E-learning Officer for the Masters in Educational Practice (MEP) programme, a bilingual Welsh Government Masters programme available to all Newly Qualified Teachers in Wales, based in the […]

Grademark – exporting and importing quickmarks and rubrics

Posted on 28 November 2014 by Dewi Parry

by Dewi Parry I answered an e-mail this week around sharing Quickmarks and rubrics across assignments/modules/staff. While it’s still fresh in the memory, here goes. Personally, I think that the […]

Time for (Grade)Marking! – assessment, marking and feedback

Posted on 4 November 2014 by Dewi Parry

by Dewi Parry It will soon be coming up to that time of year again (marking time!) and Allan and I are currently working on a Turnitin/Grademark training session due […]

Learning Central Staff induction / refresher now available

Posted on 16 October 2014 by Dewi Parry

by Dewi Parry As you may have noticed recently, there is a new portlet on your Learning Central homepage (when you’ve logged in). Underneath the “My Announcements” and “My Tasks” […]