Five minutes with… Ben Atkinson
May 11, 2023
What is your job role? Learning Technology Consultant for the Faculty of Science. What 3 words describe you? Creative, passionate, inquisitive. Tell us something ‘unusual’ about yourself I’ve presented a country music radio programme weekly for the past fifteen years. It is broadcast on stations around the UK and in Ireland, Australia and the US. …
Turnitin: what does the % similarity score really mean?
May 9, 2023
At the University of Nottingham, as elsewhere, student assignment papers are submitted to the Turnitin service. This produces a Similarity score and report but it doesn’t indicate plagiarism or a lack of academic integrity. What Turnitin does is check a student’s work against a database of previous submissions, web pages and journals. If there are …
How to schedule announcements in Moodle
April 27, 2023
Did you know you can schedule announcements in Moodle to be sent out at a time you specify? Useful if you want to make sure the message drops in inboxes at a particular time, when you might not be around (or if you’re me, might not remember!) It works for other forum posts as well. …
Moodle is Upgrading in the Summer of 2023: Moodle 4.1 is coming!
April 24, 2023
This summer Moodle will upgrade to version 4.1. This new version of Moodle brings with it lots of changes to the layout of Dashboard and My modules pages when you first login, and to your module site pages. The biggest changes in this upgrade relate to the look and feel of Moodle, such as the …
Turnitin (& Moodle) assignment submission: checklist for students
April 20, 2023
We are often contacted by students worried about why their submissions to assignment dropboxes are not succeeding. Here are some of the most important things to check. Your document: please check Your filename must be no longer than 40 characters (you may get an error message if your filename is too long: it will be …
Designing for Engagement in a Learning Community – course starts Wed 19 April
April 14, 2023
Time and again, we hear that students are not engaging with their learning. Being engaged benefits students in so many ways. It can make learning more enjoyable as well as boosting achievement. So what can we do to promote more engagement in our classes? The course “Designing for Engagement in a Learning Community” looks at …
Digital badges, safety online and other posts for students
April 12, 2023
Our blog has been running since 2010, and moved into this blog platform in 2020. We’ve had two Advent Calendars and a Summer of Moodle, and published posts hopefully of use to both students and staff. Some of the posts which may still be of interest to students (and of course some staff) include: How …
Easter eggs!
April 5, 2023
Traditionally, Easter eggs in the digital sense used to be hidden in the software that we used every day. From video games to operating systems, software developers have been known to add secret features, messages, and hidden references for users to discover. For example at one point there was a Flight Simulator game hidden in …
Creating audio and podcasts
April 3, 2023
I got some really good tips on creating audio and podcasts in education, from the recent Future Teacher webinar focusing on audio. Speakers included Andrew McLaren. Edinburgh Napier, Sheila MacNeill, Jane Secker, and Mark Childs. Here are, with thanks, some of their tips. The preparation time needed (at least at first) means it can be …
Roadworks on the learning journey: advice for students
March 31, 2023
As anyone who drives onto University Park campus from the North knows, earlier this year we had to navigate some serious roadworks on the A52, the main road across the north side of the University campus. These roadworks were extensively signalled in advance, and were due to gasworks. The closure of the road in a …
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