Skip to navigation | Skip to main content | Skip to footer
Menu
Search the University of Manchester siteSearch Menu StaffNet

What’s new in eLearning?

23 Mar 2009

Information about activities on campus.

A number of eLearning activities are taking place across the campus over the coming weeks and below are details of how you can get involved and links to further information:

Teaching and Learning Conference

There will be an eLearning Lounge at the forthcoming internal Teaching and Learning Conference on Personalising the Student Experience to be held at Chancellor’s on 11 May 2009. The Lounge will provide access to exemplar courses, demonstrations of teaching and learning tools in Blackboard, tips for podcasting and video streaming, plus a range of other practical information to help you create innovative course content.

There will also be a workshop on the use of Turnitin and Grademark for detecting plagiarism and providing students with feedback on their work through integration with Blackboard. 

Further information about the conference is available here:

Wiki

The Confluence Wiki tool has now been integrated with Blackboard to support teaching and learning. Colleagues can trial the use of this tool to support collaboration between students and to explore personalised learning.

Further information is available from Faculty eLearning teams at: 

Blackboard

Over 20,000 students are now using Blackboard regularly to access course materials, learning activities and assessments. If you teach but are not yet using the online learning system in your units or programmes, then help and advice is available from Faculty eLearning Teams, who can be contacted via:

Training sessions for Blackboard and a range of other academic technologies are also available on an ongoing basis. Upcoming workshops include an Introduction to Blackboard, Creating Content Using Wimba Create and Mathematical Equations in Blackboard.

Places can be booked by emailing:

Times Higher Awards 2009

And finally, you may be interested to know that the University has been shortlisted for a Times Higher Leadership and Management Award. The submission entitled Transforming Teaching Culture through Technology is based on the University’s wide-reaching eLearning change initiative, including the deployment of the managed learning environment, how it was implemented and the impact it is having on the student experience. The winners will be announced on 9 June.

Enquires about this can be directed to: