How-to guidance
These articles give you practical guidance on using various learning technologies. If you’ve used any of these tools, feel free to leave a comment about how you employed them and whether you found them useful.
| Date | Title | Category | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 March 2010 | Accessing Alt-J (E-Learning Journal) As part of our membership of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), we have access to the Journal ALT-J, about research in learning technology. |
How-to guidance News and Events | research |
| 24 February 2010 | Terms and Conditions with Selective Release In the past, people have asked how to set things up on Blackboard so that students have to accept some terms and conditions before they can access a particular piece of content. This can be done with a combination of an Assessment (i.e. a quiz) and the Selective Release functionality. This article describes what this solution looks like and goes through the steps required to achieve it. The steps should take no longer than about 15 minutes to carry out and in doing so you will learn about both the Grade Book and the Selective Release functions in Blackboard. |
How-to guidance | blackboard, grade_book, selective_release |
| 20 January 2010 | Visualisers and Q-Review Many of you will have noticed Visualisers appearing in more and more lecture theatres around campus. They’re, in my opinion at least, a fantastic technolgy. They are extremely simple to use and have the potential to open up a whole new array of materials to a lecturer. They’re also very much under-utilized. (As a brief [...] |
How-to guidance | classroom technology, Echo360, q-review, visualiser |
| 10 January 2010 | How to use microphones for Q-Review Probably the biggest hurdle we’ve encountered so far in the Q-Review lecture capture project is the disappointment of a really good lecture being delivered that gets played back in absolute slience. This short post outlines the steps that a presenter must go through to ensure that the audio for their lecture is recorded. |
How-to guidance | audio, Echo360, lecturecapture, microphone, q-review |
| 22 September 2009 | Getting your Blackboard course ready – Part 1 As we are approaching the beginning of a new academic year, many of you may be in the process of preparing your course areas on Blackboard before the start of teaching. This article is the first of two detailing the key tasks that you will need to undertake to ensure that everything runs smoothly. |
How-to guidance | blackboard, vle |
| 24 July 2009 | Archiving Coursework from CE6 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. |
How-to guidance | assignment, screen capture, vle |
| 1 July 2009 | Subscribing to the DELU blog You will find a number of feeds on this website that you can subscribe to, this article explains what you need to do. |
How-to guidance | camtasia, rss, screencasting |
| 19 June 2009 | What is RSS? What is “RSS” and why might you care? This article provides some explanation of the term. |
How-to guidance Introducing... | rss, suscribe |
| 7 August 2008 | Avoiding Plagiarism Avoiding Plagiarism |
How-to guidance | plagiarism, Turnitin |
| 9 June 2008 | Annotating with a Tablet PC I was thinking about an alternative and/or portable solution to Interactive Whiteboards and I was trying to figure out if tablet PC’s were a good way to go. Especially if we’re considering them in conjunction with lecture capture solutions like Echo360. So I happened upon the video below which is a neat little movie demonstrating [...] |
How-to guidance Introducing... | Echo360, lecturecapture, PowerPoint |