Digital education

First Steps with Blackboard Collaborate

Posted on 11 May 2015 by Dewi Parry

by Geraint Evans (SOCSI) Geraint is an eLearning Officer within the SOCSI eLearning team at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences. He is the eLearning lead for the Continuing Professional Education […]

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 […]

CMALT – Advice for Learning Technologists

Posted on 16 March 2015 by Dewi Parry

by Dave Ruckley (WCPPE, School of Pharmacy) This week, our guest blog post is written by Dave Ruckley, Learning Technologist for The Wales Centre for Pharmacy Professional Education (WCPPE) within the […]

Using Grademark for marking and feedback

Posted on 19 February 2015 by Dewi Parry

After you have received and read a piece of your students' work, you can use a tool in Turnitin called 'GradeMark' to feedback comments directly on the work, just as […]

Accessing Turnitin assignments and originality reports

Posted on 19 February 2015 by Dewi Parry

Once the deadline has passed for a Turnitin assignment, it's time to look at your students' submissions.  This narrated screencast shows you how to access the submitted papers, and how […]

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 […]