Author: Stella

If your students have been busy submitting their assignments online throughout the year, you will have a large number of submissions that you’ll need to keep for a number of years to come. During the academic year, it is useful to keep these within CE6 for both tutors and students to access. Once the year comes to an end and the course isn’t active, it is no longer possible, or desirable to keep assignments on the VLE as an archive. This post explains why you can’t leave old assignments in CE6 and how to get them out.

The last few years have seen an increase in both the number of us using the VLE here at Queen Mary, and the breadth of activities we’re using it for. We’ve responded to both good and bad changes in the products and now the majority of departments are making extensive use of our current [...]

Avoiding Plagiarism
A big concern amongst the academic community is how an increase in the use of learning technologies will increase instances of plagiarism. It’s true that with digital files, copying another student’s work is easier… with search engines like Google, copying from an online source is a fairly simple way of avoiding doing the work [...]

The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) was extended to education in September 2002. This means that we are now legally obliged to ensure that teaching and learning at Queen Mary is accessible to disabled people.