February 26, 2024, by Laura Nicholson

Learning Technology – What’s on the Horizon for March?

The Learning Technology team has a busy schedule throughout March as we strive to provide support to as many staff and students as we can. Please take a look at the events below, and hopefully you’ll find something that piques your interest!

New Accessibility Courses

The Learning Technology team are offering four central short courses offering support with creating accessible materials for teaching and learning.

Each session is an hour long and covers a different element of creating accessible teaching and learning materials.​

The courses start this week on Thursday, February 29th, and run until the end of May. You can sign up using the links below:

• Core Accessibility: The Nottingham Accessible Practices
• Accessible Moodle content – Brickfield Accessibility+ Toolkit
• Accessible learning materials – Word and PowerPoint
• Accessible learning materials – Multimedia

More guidance and resources can be found on the Nottingham Accessible Practices SharePoint site.

Student Drop-ins

Throughout the year, Learning Technology runs various student drop-in sessions across the different campuses. Whether students have questions about Moodle or any other technology, seek general guidance on study tools, or simply wish to share their thoughts, just signpost them to visit any of our drop-in sessions. Dates for our March drop-ins have been finalised; please share the dates below to ensure we can support as many students as possible.

University Park

• Monday 11^th March 9.30-10.30 – Clive Granger Foyer
• Tuesday 12^th March 9.30-10.30 – Humanities Atrium
• Tuesday 12^th March 11.00-13.00 – Portland, C Floor
• Tuesday 12^th March 14.00-15.00 – Coates Reception
• Monday 18^th March 9.30-10.30 – LASS Atrium
• Monday 18^th March 14.00-15.00 – George Green Library
• Tuesday 19^th March 9.30-10.30 – Monica Partridge Atrium
• Tuesday 19^th March 11.00-13.00 – Portland, C floor
• Tuesday 19^th March 14.00-15.00 – Physics Reception

Queens Medical Centre

• Monday 11^th March 11.00-13.00 – Medical School Foyer, B Floor
• Monday 11^th March 14.00-15.00 – Medical school
• Monday 18^th March 11.00-13.00 – Medical School Foyer, B floor

Sutton Bonington

• Wednesday 13^th March 9.30-10.30 – Vet School Atrium
• Wednesday 13^th March 11.00-13.00 – The Burrow
• Wednesday 20^th March 9.30-10.30 – James Cameron-Gifford Library
• Wednesday 20^th March 11.00-13.00 – The Burrow

Jubilee

• Thursday 14^th March 11.00-13.00 – The Foyer, Exchange Building
• Thursday 14^th March 14.00-15.00 – Business School South Foyer
• Thursday 21^st March 9.30-10.30 TBC – Djanogly Resource Centre (near counter)
• Thursday 21^st March 11.00-13.00 – The Foyer, Exchange Building

Staff Drop-ins

We also have ​dedicated staff drop-ins which run throughout the year. No appointments are needed. Please just drop by, and we’ll be happy to help and advise.

• Arts / Social Sciences in-person and online drop-in, Tuesdays 12-1pm (Term time only), E06, Monica Partridge Building, University Park.
• Engineering has their own live virtual drop-in from 1-3pm every day. Also in-person in A9 Coates Building, University Park on Wednesdays and Thursdays each week. Engineering Learning Technology Virtual Drop-in
• Medicine and Health Sciences has an in-person and online drop-in every Thursday, 12-2pm at E62 MHS Hub, Medical School. Access the Medicine and Health Sciences virtual drop-in
• Science has in-person and hybrid drop-ins: Details of the Science drop-ins can be found on the FOS workspace page.

Daily Staff Support

Virtual drop-in sessions are also run through Teams on a daily basis. Ad hoc support is available Monday to Friday between 9.00 am and 4.30 pm.

To access support, go to our Drop In Teams site. Further guidance can be found on our Workspace page: Drop-ins and Virtual Drop-ins.

Upcoming Staff Training in March

If you are interested in attending any of the training provided by the Learning Technology team, please book on directly from the UoN Central short courses page. For our March sessions, we have a range of opportunities available for you.

• Thursday 7^th March – 10.00-11.30 – Key Moodle basics
• Monday 11^th March – 14.00-15.00 – Using ePortfolios in Mahara
• Friday 15^th March – 13.30-15.00 – Key Moodle Basics
• Tuesday 19^th March – 14.30 – 15.15 – Using Mahara for Assessment
• Monday 25^th March – 10.30-12.00 – Key Moodle Basics
• Wednesday 27^th March – 10.00-11.00 – Creating learning materials using XERTE

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