Author: Colette Fuller What IS Yammer? Many staff ask this question so if you are feeling a little confused you’re not alone! Yammer is part of the Office 365 suite of applications and is like a private social network – just for UCLan. It works much like Twitter or Facebook, but it differs in a couple of key ways. Firstly, not everyone can join Yammer. You must have a UCLan email Read more…
Author: Caroline Carlin. Microsoft Forms is a relatively new Microsoft online app and part of the Office 365 suite. Forms has two components; Forms which enable you to create surveys and offer a great alternative to Survey Monkey (supports up to 5000 responses which can be exported to Excel for analysis) and Quizzes. So what’s so great about the Read more…
Author: Caroline Carlin. In October Microsoft announced that the Office Mix product will be retired in May 2018. As keen promoters and users of Office Mix, the TELT team initially felt a little frustrated at what felt like a sudden announcement, but dig a little deeper and there are sure to be exciting times ahead. From its initial rollout in 2014 Office Mix has offered educators Read more…
Author: Chris Melia,TELT On Thursday 2nd November, the Faculty of Health & Wellbeing held its second bi-annual Learning and Teaching Conference. Led by Janette Grey – Faculty Director of Academic Development, the day proved to be a roaring success. It saw colleagues from across the Faculty, CELT and TELT collaborate to deliver a Read more…
Author: Kevan Williams. A very warm welcome to the new blog page for the University’s Technology Enabled Learning and Teaching Team. Based within the Learning and Information Service, the TELT team are responsible for the investigation, evaluation and implementation of new and emerging learning technologies. Working closely with the Centre Read more…