The team recently created an animation to highlight the research, planning and development undertaken in order to revolutionise the way students and staff use the College Virtual Learning Environment (LearnZone). As staff within the college may already know, LearnZone is based on the open source Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Moodle software, and over …
Recently a member of the eLearning team was lucky enough to attend the 2013 turnitin conference at the Leeds School of Music. For those who are unfamiliar with turnitin- it is a piece of software for teaching staff that checks academic work for plagiarism, we use it here in the college to check for …
Adding a video from Youtube into a Learnzone page has never been so easy thanks to the recent upgrade. All you will need to do once you are onto your Learnzone page, click on the little cog to edit, once you have done this an editing pane will open. To …
The new team infographic! This infographic was created to visually highlight the presence of eLearning at Loughborough College, importantly it displays that there is a gap in the knowledge of staff, shows a need for training in this area and provides evidence of how staff could benefit from training. The …
The new version of Learnzone also lets you hide certain sections of your course until you are ready to unveil them, which is handy when planning and creating course materials for the upcoming year. This option allows you to decide how the hidden sections in your course are displayed …
Working with shapes, pictures, boxes, objects and WordArt Below are a list of keyboard shortcuts for use while working within PowerPoint, specifically relating to the use of auto shapes, pictures, boxes, objects and WordArt. These shortcuts will help you to quickly add objects into your presentation to create more …
To make using Learnzone even easier, the clever people that created it have enabled a brilliant new function that lets you drag and drop folders/files straight into your page, making the uploading of your curriculum content even quicker! You can drag and drop files and folders …
Taking care with social media: protect yourself against Facebook ‘mishaps’. During a recent staff development session on professional conduct, it became clear that many staff were concerned about the use of social media and unaware of how Facebook privacy settings could be changed. It is important that personal Facebook accounts …
Here are a selection of nifty Outlook shortcuts to get your heads around! These are just a selection of the shortcuts available within this programme so if there is one that you know and that you would like to share then please add it to the list by using …
Again another offerring from the people at BBC Education, WebWise is a free online step by step resource which aims to help new or uncertain internet users to gain confidence and develop their digital literacy skills. This very basic step by step guide takes you through the practicalities of setting …
