We are pleased to announce the launch of our Digital Learning Pathways to support your Continuing Professional Development. For those who missed our launch event or people who want to take another look, here is the recording. Digital Learning Pathways We have developed six pathways to build your confidence in …
In this tutorial video, we take you through how to enrol and how to unenrol learners on your FE and HE LearnZone course pages. One of the biggest changes that came with the LearnZone rollover this year is that learners will only be able to enrol themselves on courses, units or, modules during September. After this initial period, …
The immersive classrooms are equipped with speakers, a standard webcam and microphone mounted on the projector, and a motorised camera controlled via a remote. As part of an online Teams lesson these can be used alongside other online activities and tools to engage learners at home and in-class activities such …
Blackboard Ally is an accessibility tool that is integrated into our LearnZone and HE LearnZone sites. Ally provides a raft of tools to help staff ensure their online resources are accessible and the option for students to access these in a variety of formats. Alternative formats Ally automatically creates alternative …
In this top tips video below we are going to look at how you can easily set up a link to a specific page, section or deep-link to individual activities and resources from previous years versions of FE or HE LearnZone. This is a great way to provide continuity for your learners, without needing to copy resources as you can just link to them. This includes resources such as PowerPoint, Word document, PDFs as well …
Essential information about this years 2020/21 LearnZone and HELearnZone rollover.
Turnitin will have a scheduled system maintenance on Aug 14, 2021, from 4pm – 6pm BST (for local timezone please click Time zone converter). Due to the maintenance, Turnitin will be unavailable between those times.
Microsoft regularly updates Teams with new bug fixes and new features. Here’s a quick glance at some of the more recent changes to the software and features some you may have seen and others may be new to you. These include: New Breakout room settings and features Screen sharing with …
Microsoft Teams has taken accessibility to a new level and will significantly help you comply with current accessibility legislation at the touch of a button. Live transcription and live captions can help to significantly improve accessibility on Teams by providing you with the option to display what is being said …
Did you know that most eBooks in the library’s collection have lots of in-built accessibility features? Having celebrated Global Accessibility Day on 20th May, this article will briefly show you the tools on our eBooks to help support your learners. These features are all available on Browns (VLE) eBooks with some features provided on …
