Distance and E-Learning Unit » How-to guidance

Linking to your Podcast from your Webpage

emcdonnell — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:08:18 +0000

This post shows how to link to your RSS file so your users can find your podcast. It will show you how to use the ITPC link so your users can subscribe directly in iTunes.

Writing an RSS feed for iTunes

emcdonnell — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:10:31 +0000

In this post we will cover how to go about writing your own XML to create an RSS feed for iTunes. The format used will be legible by most RSS aggregators but I will assume that you may intend, as some stage, to submit your feed to the iTunes Store which requires certain extra tags. If [...]

Using the Flip Camera to make online videos in Blackboard

Alysa Bramble — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:42:54 +0000

Want to create a vodcast for your students but don't know where to begin? Use this guide to help you, or visit the E-Learning Unit and use our Flip Camera to record your video and make it available to your students.

Q-Review and podcasting your lectures at Queen Mary

emcdonnell — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:25:28 +0000

This is a brief reminder about the College’s lecture capture project, Q-Review. If staff would like to make use of this service in the coming year, you are advised to make that requirement known to Room Bookings when submitting your room requests now. They will make every effort to prioritize requests from those who wish [...]

Accessing Alt-J (E-Learning Journal)

sbrenton — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:44:18 +0000

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. We’ll get hard copies at the E-Learning Unit which you can browse in the E-Learning Studio, but you can also access it online. You can access the journal from www.informaworld.com. Click ‘Sign [...]

Terms and Conditions with Selective Release

Gill Ritchie — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:18:00 +0000

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.

Visualisers and Q-Review

emcdonnell — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:00:21 +0000

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 use microphones for Q-Review

emcdonnell — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:59:19 +0000

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.

Getting your Blackboard course ready – Part 1

Gill Ritchie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:33:03 +0000

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.

Archiving Coursework from CE6

Stella — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:58:35 +0000

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.