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Tag: Blackboard

How did we make the University’s Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) submission more accessible?

Launching into accessibility with our TEF submission
24th February 20232nd March 2023
Matthew Deeprose
Accessibility, Creating Content, News

The process was a great learning exercise and provided hands-on experience for those involved in the principles of accessible documents.

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eCoffee in 2021-22

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
2nd September 20222nd September 2022
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

It’s been a while since the “@SGH” part of eCoffee has been strictly accurate, but we’ve had another year of valuable virtual meet-ups.

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Blackboard and VLE Awards: 10th anniversary

Over a background of trailing glittery stars, text reads 'University of Southampton Blackboard & VLE Awards 2022'
6th May 20229th May 2022
Anna Ruff
Events

Our 10th Blackboard & VLE Awards gave us plenty to celebrate! In this post we reveal the winning courses and share some highlights from this year’s event.

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Best Fully Online Course: Blackboard & VLE Awards

21st February 202221st February 2022
Dimitra Makrozonari
News

For this year’s 10th anniversary of the University’s Blackboard & VLE Awards, there are 10 award categories for staff nominations. In this blog post, the featured category is ‘Best Fully Online Course’ and we are sharing an interactive ThingLink presentation.

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Good use of external resources and reading lists

A child choosing sweets in a sweet shop.
21st February 202216th February 2022
Tamsyn Smith
Creating Content

One of the categories that has been introduced for the 10th anniversary of our Blackboard and VLE Awards is for ‘Best use of external resources and reading lists’. In this blog post, I’ll explore some of the external resources that you could be making use of as well as discussing electronic reading lists.

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Building Community: Blackboard & VLE Awards

The Building Community Infographic that you can access via a link in this blog post.
18th February 202218th February 2022
Alison Ormesher
Events, Tech tips

For this year’s 10th anniversary of the University’s Blackboard & VLE Awards, there are 10 award categories for staff nominations. Here, we are sharing a ThingLink infographic based on the category of Best Community. This infographic has some key statistics

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Best development of employability skills: Blackboard and VLE Awards

18th February 202218th February 2022
James Allen
News

For this year’s 10th anniversary of the University’s Blackboard & VLE Awards, there are 10 award categories for staff nominations. In this blog post, we focus on courses that shine when it comes to development of student employability skills.

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Structure: Blackboard & VLE Awards

Text: Blackboard & VLE Awards - Structure with a cheerful female student working on a laptop in the background
19th January 202220th January 2022
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

Another 10-minute overview, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the University’s Blackboard & VLE Awards! In the video below we explore the Best Structure category, one of ten different awards on offer this year.

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Learner support: Blackboard & VLE Awards

Text: Blackboard & VLE Awards - Learner Support, with a cheerful female student working on a laptop in the background
19th January 202219th January 2022
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the University’s Blackboard & VLE Awards, we are offering awards in ten different categories this year. In the 10-minute video below, we delve into the Best Learner Support category.

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Blackboard and VLE Awards 2022

Text that reads Blackboard and VLE awards with a star trophy to the right of the text.
11th January 202211th January 2022
Luke Searle
Events

Rewarding excellence. The 2022 Blackboard and VLE award nominations are open. Nominate your module to be shortlisted today.

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Spring cleaning your Blackboard sites: are you environmentally-friendly and accessible?

27th May 202127th May 2021
Sarah Fielding
Creating Content, News

A new norm- Yes, it’s a phrase that divides the audience. Some of us are weary of the over used phrases (unprecedented, anyone?). Others are excited at the prospect of real change. In education I don’t think we really want

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2021

Close-up of Excellence in VLE Awards trophy with text 'Winner 2021' and 'University of Southampton'
25th May 202111th January 2022
Anna Ruff
Events, Innovation

In a year of many challenges, one common story is that students feel short-changed by their online learning experience. It’s therefore been both heartening and humbling to receive 1235 nominations from students for our 9th annual Blackboard & Virtual Learning

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An innovative new Blackboard structure for Arts and Humanities

Example menu colour schemes used across Archaeology, English, Film, and History modules in Blackboard.
23rd February 202123rd February 2021
Matthew Deeprose
Case study

The Digital Learning team worked on a major project last year with our Faculty of Humanities to implement new Blackboard course templates. This introduced new course menus, course menu colour schemes, and course redesign.

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Should you use Significant Figures or Decimal Places when setting Answer Set options for Calculated Formula questions in Blackboard?

Screenshot showing the choice of whether to use Decimals or Significant figures.
18th November 202029th November 2020
Matthew Deeprose
Case study, News, Tech tips

Blackboard tests are a hot topic at the moment. On the Digital Learning Connect Teams Area we recently received a question from Dr Gabriel Weymouth: I’m positive this is clearly documented somewhere, but I can’t find it. How do you

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Using the Blackboard ‘Self and Peer Assessment’ tool with groups

Four self and peer assignments, each using adaptive release rules.
6th October 202017th May 2022
Matthew Deeprose
Case study, News

On the CHEP Community Team Dr Poshak Gandhi asked some questions about peer assessment: “My module has 170 students, split into 4 groups of about 42 students each. I want to create an assignment for peer assessment, with each group

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Articulate Rise 360

Four stick figures celebrating under a Rise logo.
3rd September 202017th February 2021
Mimi Lee
Creating Content, News, Tech tips

Earlier this month, I was given access to an Articulate 360 license which included a whole load of goodies developed by Articulate; Storyline 360, Studio 360, Replay 360 and Peek 360, Review 360 and Rise 360. From this bundle, I

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Blackboard European Teaching and Learning Conference

Slightly open laptop showing a coloured glow on the keyboard.
19th June 202024th November 2020
Sarah Fielding
News

The Blackboard European Teaching and Learning Conference was online this year. 871 people attended from 276 educational institutions in 32 countries. Being online allowed attendees from further afield to attend such as the US, Singapore, and Lebanon. The conference ran across 3 weeks

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The awards win an award!

Blackboard Catalyst Awards 2020 winner.
11th June 202024th November 2020
Anna Ruff
News

This year, Blackboard’s Teaching and Learning Conference was held online, featuring a range of topical discussions. Further details of the programme can be found here: TLC Europe. Our colleague Matthew Deeprose contributed two well-received presentations, firstly explaining how custom changes

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2020

Close up shot of a woman using a laptop.
10th June 202024th November 2020
Anna Ruff
Events

The university’s Virtual Learning Environment Awards were particularly virtual this year, with winners announced via a Twitter event and a Special Edition Newsletter. Students’ insight throughout the process is key, with student representatives taking time to select a shortlist from

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What do this year’s Blackboard & VLE Awards tell us about remote learning?

Blackboard & VLE Award 2019 trophies
29th April 202015th May 2020
Anna Ruff
Events, News

At the point we launched this year’s search for examples of excellent use of virtual learning environments, we didn’t know we’d all be moving in!  With learning shifted to virtual spaces, it’s useful to reflect on what this year’s nominations

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10 things you can do now to make the next few weeks easier

24th March 20201st December 2020
Chrissie Metcalf
Tech tips

Over the last week or so, we have been asked questions about how to deal with remote teaching and tools that might help us in these uncertain times. Here are our top tips to make the next few weeks a

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2020

Excellence in VLE Awards trophies 2019
17th February 202017th February 2020
Anna Ruff
Events

Nominations for the university’s annual Blackboard & VLE Awards competition are now open, giving you the opportunity to feed back on what you find most helpful in a virtual learning environment, and to put forward examples of courses that do

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Connect: VLE Swap shop

Excellence in VLE Awards trophies 2019
9th August 20199th August 2019
Anna Ruff
Events

Our guest contributors at July’s Digital Learning Connect event were well placed to offer insight into what makes a successful virtual learning environment, having both won university Blackboard & VLE Awards, as well as making it onto the shortlist each

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eCoffee @ SGH: Blackboard – what works well?

Birds-eye view of people drinking coffee around a table with laptop and tablet used to represent ecoffee at SGH.
12th July 201915th July 2019
Anna Ruff
Events, Tech tips

Medicine has seen continuing success over the seven years of the university’s Blackboard & VLE Awards, so in July’s eCoffee we explored some features of winning courses, sharing some ideas and inspiration ahead of the next academic year. Blackboard upgrade

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Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference BBTLC2019

Sam Cole presenting at Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference (BBTLC) Europe, with Matt Deeprose sitting alongside him.
4th June 20191st December 2020
Tamsyn Smith
News

Recently, Sam Cole, Matt Deeprose (both from the Managed Learning Environment team) and I travelled to Newcastle for the European Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference. In short, it’s always an engaging and inspiring conference with a wide range of attendees

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2019

Excellence in VLE Awards trophies 2019
7th May 20193rd January 2020
Anna Ruff
Events, News

This year saw our seventh annual Blackboard & VLE Awards, with students putting forward an impressive array of modules that offer valuable online support for their learning.  Students’ insightful comments about why a particular approach works, or the benefits of

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Blackboard & VLE Awards 2019

Postcard saying 'Have you voted in the Blackboard & VLE Awards 2019? There is a graphic of a hand on a laptop next to a phone.
26th March 201927th March 2019
Anna Ruff
News

Nominations are open for our seventh annual Blackboard & VLE Awards.   Students have the opportunity to feed back on what they’ve found particularly helpful to their learning and invite recognition of the staff who are supporting them in this way. A ‘virtual

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Using graphics to help redesign the Online MA in Blackboard

Banner for the MA in English Language.
18th October 20182nd May 2019
Mimi Lee
Case study

I am so excited to share with you a Blackboard design project that I recently worked on for Charlotte Everitt, Senior Teaching fellow in Modern Languages. Charlotte was in the process of migrating the MA in ELT: Online programme from

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Blackboard Workshop Series, Avenue Campus and WSA

Montage featuring Goldilocks, three bears, chairs, porridge and beds.
19th September 201830th November 2020
Tamsyn Smith
Events

Colleagues are invited to attend the Blackboard Workshop Series, taking place every Wednesday from 19th September to 3rd October at Avenue Campus. The same series will also run at WSA, dates and times TBC. These workshops are designed to meet

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UoS success celebrated in e-learn, the official Blackboard magazine

4th September 201830th November 2020
Tamsyn Smith
News

Following the success of the University’s Excellence in VLE Awards, Blackboard decided to feature staff from the University of Southampton in their latest issue of e-learn. Each issue has a particular theme. The topic of this issue was Education Insights. Read

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