Discover what students love in Learning Central
9 September 2025
Marianna is a Learning Technology Officer at our Learning and Teaching Academy. She works closely with student champions. In this blog, she highlights the features students find useful, engaging, and enabling for active and independent learning, based on their experiences and feedback. She also explains how you can make the most of the features available.
As we approach the new academic year, we have been exploring which features of Learning Central truly resonate with our students. From personalised dashboards to interactive feedback tools, our virtual learning environment is designed to support learning effectively, and more resourcefully. It’s the center of the student digital experience. I’ve been working with student champions over the last year to improve our digital learning environment. I wanted to capture what really matters to our students, so I ventured out to meet some of them to discuss what it was they really liked about our Learning Central.
Please watch this short video to hear from Lyla (Biomedical Science student in School of Biosciences) about her thoughts on the top Learning Central features.
Here are the key takeaways from our students:
- Search functionality
- Quick content access
- Timesaving, especially when navigating content rich modules
- User-friendly, because suggested content appears as clickable links that take you directly to the relevant section
- Grades and Feedback display
- Instant view of new marks and feedback via Gradebook tab
- Rubric view details criteria and how they were scored, which supports learning and self-assessment
- Notifications
- Stay updated with Announcements and alerts
- Easily adjust the settings in ‘My Profile’ so it fits with how you like to stay updated and informed
- Discussion boards
- Great for ideas sharing and learning from others
- Option to respond anonymously
- Interactive questions can lead to knowledge checks
- Follow your favourite topics and get notifications about new posts
- Favourite modules
- Most-used modules can be pinned as favourites
- Filtering modules makes it quick and easy to find what you need
Final Thoughts
As we continue to explore and enhance our Learning Central, it’s clear that the features students value most are those that make learning more intuitive, accessible, and engaging. By listening to student voices, we can ensure our virtual learning environment remains a powerful digital partner in their academic journey. Future upgrades and innovations will ensure more ways to make learning meaningful, connected, tailored and personal.
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