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Faculty
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Teaching and Assessment Information and Resources |
20/09/13
I plan to email most Fridays with a collection of tips and advice gathered through conversations and emails with colleagues. Those hipsters among the staff will recognise this as crowdsourcing.
If you have something that you would like to share that is related to Learning, Teaching and Assessment then don’t hesitate to pass it on to me for distribution.
1. The
Blackboard Retention Centre (thanks to Amanda Reid)
In the new version of Blackboard, you can check when/whether students on your modules have accessed any of the module content: http://www.staff.ljmu.ac.uk/phcpdent/tempjan2014.pdf
2. Uploading
files to BlackBoard (thanks to Alex Spiers)
The BlackBoard mobile site received over 30,000 hits on Friday Week Zero alone. To make your files as accessible as possible across all platforms then the Learning Technology team strongly recommend that you convert to pdf format before uploading (where this does not impact on the content). Personally, I have found it convenient to save my PowerPoint slides on my networked M: drive, Save As a pdf to the hard drive C: of my office computer, then upload from C: to Blackboard. Coincidentally, a student in my last lecture asked for a module timetable to be uploaded as a pdf, rather than a as Word document.
3. Turning Point
on the App Player (thanks to Jim Turner)
For colleagues who book the ‘clickers’ for use in class, a note that there are now two versions of Turning Point on the App Player: 2008(Legacy) and v5(latest). The Faculty equipment will work fine on both versions, but, as there are no guides for v5 available at present, I would suggest that you stick with 2008 for the time being. A reminder that clickers can be booked via Ralph McNeillie R.McNeillie@ljmu.ac.uk and collected from Rm 321a of the James Parson Building.
Note that the site licence for the Turning Point Responseware (that allows smartphones to be used as clickers) has not being renew this year due to the high cost/low take-up.
4. PC
availability on the LJMU pop-up menu (thanks to Harry Morton)
This is accessible
to students by clicking on the 
button on the task bar. From
this year, it includes links to the two new PC availability websites specific
to Byrom St:
http://tinyurl.com/pcfreetoday
Maintained by Philip Denton. Last Update: 13/10/2015.