Author: Jan Thomson, TELT There are lots of enhancements and updated features following the annual Blackboard upgrade that recently took place. Some of the key changes are outlined below, but the full list is available to view via our special Read more…
Author: Paddy My experience at UCLan has been brilliant. The atmosphere is positive with no arguments or any sort of hateful behaviour. The first day was an introduction to the team and I met Colette, Phil, Mark and Kevan who Read more…
In our second blog post exploring new Office 365 features we’re looking at those tools which can help increase inclusivity in teaching for all students. These are available within Microsoft Office for Office365, see our previous blog post1. This time we’re Read more…
Author: Kevan Williams, TELT One technology-based activity which continues to stimulate a significant amount of debate across the sector is lecture capture. There are many articles and reports available which support the activity and yet there are also a large Read more…
Author: Caroline Carlin, TELT Microsoft Office for Office 365 (available to UCLan staff on your Surface Pro from July) comes with a raft of great new features. So many in fact, that we’ve split it over two blog posts. This Read more…
Author: Chris Melia, TELT The introduction of Microsoft Teams as part of the Office 365 application suite has drastically changed the way in which learners can communicate, collaborate and access content online. In an age where smart phones are becoming the essential Read more…
Author: Colette Fuller A couple of weeks ago myself and my colleague Caroline went to Reading to visit Microsoft HQ as part of a 3 day ‘Microsoft Bootcamp’. This promised to be an interesting three days for us, what could Read more…
Author: Jan Thomson Blackboard European Teaching and Learning Conference Tuesday 10th April – Thursday 12th April 2018 Jan and Neil from the Blackboard Support team attended this year’s Blackboard European Teaching and Learning conference (#BbTLC18 / http://bbtlceurope.com ) which was Read more…
Author: Colette Fuller ‘Amazing’…’Life changing’ ‘so useful!’ and ‘excited’ are words we frequently hear when delivering our OneNote workshops. If you aren’t already a OneNote convert then let’s see if the following will help to convince you! Taking notes! OneNote is a digital notebook so instead of lugging pens, paper and Read more…
Author: Kevan Williams Working in a technology related discipline certainly requires a degree of tenacity and an ability to see beyond the plethora of applications, which are continually expanding and evolving. How many times has a challenge arisen where a Read more…