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Xerte Online Toolkits enable users to easily create accessible, interactive, and engaging e-learning resources, with no programming knowledge required. ASTI has been successfully providing this service to users across the University for a number of years. It has been our aim to widen the user-base of this service and integrate it with other University systems and […]
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This blog post was created as a result of viewing a tutorial on Preventing Scope Creep by Terri Wagner. When starting any type of project, it is important to understand the goals and outcomes expected of the client whilst trying to gain maximum understanding of what would benefit the end user most. The difficulty with […]
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— This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — Yet again, another piece of work we started has been shortlisted for an EU Health Innovation Award. The project relates to a digital toolkit designed to provide a virtual classroom, and which has been used to train health care workers about infection prevention and control in countries affected […]
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During the last academic year there have been a significant number of successful assessments submitted and marked electronically using the Moodle assignment tool. As a result of staff and student feedback there have been some changes made to both the technology and recommended practice in order to streamline and enhance the eSubmission processes in Moodle. This has […]
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— This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — In TELMeD, we have decided to make more use of screencasts to provide both staff and students with quick helpful tips for a range of technologies we support; including the DLE, Pebblepad, and a number of our eResources. Screencasts are a great way of providing training […]
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Plymouth University’s use of technology to advance learning development and excellence has been recognised at an international award ceremony. Two teams from the University achieved successes at the Learning Technologist of the Year Awards, organised by the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), including sharing the Community Choice accolade. Staff from Academic Support, Technology and Innovation (ASTI) […]
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— This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — We are delighted to inform that we are joint winner of TEL community choice awards for 2015 and recipient of the highly commended team award. You will find the open badges for the same on every page as we are extremely proud of the achievement specially being […]
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Gamification is a term batted around a lot lately. It’s not a game like you’d play on the Playstation, nor is it a quick bit of mind numbing nonsense where you tap here, tap there and here’s some new levels you just unlocked. It’s a term being used to ‘gamify’ learning…generally speaking. Therefore it’s quite […]
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ASTI are running a number of Office 365 awareness sessions as part of the Collaboration project. Come along to find out more and how Office 365 can work for you! FRIDAY, 4TH OF SEPTEMBER, PSQ STONEHOUSE LECTURE THEATRE 10:00 – 10:45 THURSDAY, 10TH OF SEPTEMBER, PSQ PLYMOUTH LECTURE THEATRE 15:00 – 15:45 THURSDAY, 17TH OF SEPTEMBER, […]
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Importing and repurposing your Moodle course content for the next academic year If you want to repurpose course material from last year’s courses, it is possible to import some or all of the content to your new 2015/16 courses. For guidance on how to do this, please access the importing content from another moodle course guidance sheet. […]
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During the last academic year there have been a significant number of successful assessments submitted and marked electronically using the Moodle assignment tool. As a result of staff and student feedback there have been some changes made to both the technology and recommended practice in order to streamline and enhance the eSubmission process across the […]
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— This post was written by Luke McGowan — The TELMeD team are proud to announce that we have been nominated for the Learning Technologist of the Year Team award at the 2015 ALT conference! The ALT (Association for Learning Technology) awards celebrate and reward excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning technology field, […]
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We have been nominated for the ALT LT Team of the Year award. Details are at https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2015/2015-learning-technologist-of-the-year-awards/ There is also a public vote via email or twitter. To tweet for ASTI use the hashtag #LTA4 Suggested tweet is: My vote for #LTAwards #LTA4. Find out more at https://www.alt.ac.uk/LTAwardsVOTE
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ASTI is interested in working with staff who are either planning or delivering distance learning courses. We would like to identify current distance learning providers, those planning to deliver distance learning, and anyone who would like to know more about this area, with a view to sharing and developing good practice. To express an interest […]
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A new feature is now available for a selection of programming language courses. What is it? Code Playgrounds enables learners to launch a browser based code editor, to practice along with the Lynda.com video content. 3 key goals of this new feature are: Increased learner engagement through added interactivity. Increased learning retention. Learners are more […]
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I’ve talked about how a question gets automatically given a difficulty rating, and the importance of rating a question good or bad question with a thumbs up or down… But what difference does it all make in certain areas of the app? Read on… When a question is first created its kind of in no […]
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Whilst every effort has been made to ensure QuizIt is as intuitive and easy to use as possible, there’s a lot going on under the hood to automatically provide you, the Quizzer, the questions you are interested in or at least give you a heads up on the current difficulty of a question you are […]
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We recently created a short video case study about our mobile platform at Plymouth University designed to support teaching and learning. This case study showcases an insight into the mobile services available that can be consumed on any device whilst highlighting its positive impact on the student experience. For more information, please view the Mobile with Plymouth […]
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Questions in QuizIt automatically provides you with a difficulty rating for questions answered but what about rating questions good or bad instead of difficulty? That can’t be done automatically, at least not yet! Thankfully most mobile app users are accustomed to the thumbs up icon when they ‘like’ something. Not so much a thumbs down […]
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Push notifications are a fantastic way to notify the user of an action in a particular app whilst they are not using it. It’s also a great way to hook them back into the app by teasing them with a snippet of information that intrigues them to clicking on it. QuizIt utilises what’s called Local […]
