Moodle: Creating Courses 18-19
If you are teaching on modules starting in 2018/19, the instructions below will walk you through how to set these up. If your module has already ran once, and you are keeping the module...
Author: Suzy Mills
Learn with Lynda: Creating and Managing a YouTube Channel
Ever thought about creating a YouTube channel? I know I have. Whether it’s for you, your School or your Department, creating and curating a YouTube channel can help build an online identity, which you...
Saying Goodbye to Storify and Introducing Wakelet
Storify, a popular web-based tool for curating content, will be ending from the 16th May 2018. This tool allowed you to create stories from social media platforms and bring together social media interactions into...
Learn with Lynda – Presentation Tools
When it comes to creating presentations, whether you’re staff or student, there’s more to life than just PowerPoint. In this month’s Learn with Lynda, we will be highlighting not one but three lynda.com courses...
#YSJ10DoT 2018 Evaluation
This iteration of the programme is now over, but you can still work through the materials in your own time or, if you’d like the experience of participating in a community of people all...
Day 8 of #YSJ10DoT: Twitter Feeds & Tweetchats Revisited!
Over the last seven days, you may have found that as you continue to use Twitter, you come across more and more interesting people to follow and your following grows exponentially. Keeping track of...
Day 5 of #YSJ10DoT: Tweeting Media and Polls
We started tweeting on Day 2 and covered how to include URLs to other websites in tweets. Including signposts to other content is one way of making your tweets more attractive and engaging –...
Day 2 of #YSJ10DoT: Sending Tweets
What to tweet? The tone of your professional twitter account needn’t be overly formal – you can be chatty and conversational, and allow your personality to come through. Even if tweeting on behalf of...
Learn with Lynda – Gamification for Interactive Learning
In this month’s Learn with Lynda, we will be showcasing the lynda.com course Gamification for interactive learning by Karl Kapp. This course is 2 hours and 3 minutes long. Don’t forget, the videos are broken down into bite-size chapters, so you...
Moodle Monday – Gradebook Calculation Formulas
Today’s Moodle Monday will be focusing on how you can create a formula in Moodle to calculate a weighted mean of grades. As it stands, Moodle automatically assigns a simple weighted mean of grades...