Aberystwyth University Blogging

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Our Active Blogs

Latest posts from across the AU blogging network

  • Creating Accessible Learning Materials

    • New digital accessibility legislation came into effect in 2018. It covers all material on public sector websites as well as documents uploaded into VLEs, such as our Blackboard site. For details of the new law, please see Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No.2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. See the Accessible Virtual Learning Environments Report ...more

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Awst 2019

  • OA Repository Newsletter – August 2019

  • Changes to Video Conferencing

    • Information Services is changing its Video Conferencing provision to Skype for Business. The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit have been working with colleagues across Information Services on the change to this provision. Skype for Business has the capability to have up to 250 participants attend the webinar. You can attach documents for participants to review beforehand. ...more

  • 2019/2020 Modules now available (staff)

    • Modules for the academic year 2019/20 are now available for staff teaching on modules. You may have noticed that a new tab has appeared on the top menu of your Blackboard screen: If you’re enrolled as a staff member on the module in Astra then you should be able to view your modules for next academic ...more

  • Blackboard SaaS Update 5

    • Da iawn ni! The big development of this month has been a working version of the Welsh language interface. After a lot of thinking, and some investigations we have managed to find a way to recreate our Welsh language tabs and boxes on the new SaaS environment. As users you won’t notice anything different, but for ...more

  • Digital Insights 2018/19: Digital tools and apps useful for learning

    • In Digital Insights 2018/19 survey, we asked students to give an example of a digital tool or app they find really useful for learning. We thought we will share some of the examples on our blog. Access AU core e-learning services Panopto (app) Blackboard App   Research Endnote – reference management software (free to download for AU students ...more

  • Exemplary Course Award: Winners

    • We are pleased to announce this year’s recipient of the Exemplary Course Award run by the E-learning Group. Come and see the winners present their modules at next week's Learning and Teaching Conference. Further information here. Alison Pierse, Lifelong Learning Tutor in Art, has been awarded the Exemplary Course Award for the module XA15220 Figuratively Speaking: ...more

  • Hugh Owen Library building work update on the Iris de Freitas room June 2019

    • Good progress is being made on the refurbishment of the Iris de Freitas room on Level E of the Hugh Owen Library over the summer. As of 26 June 2009: • the room is cleared ready for 3 new bookable group study rooms • acoustic baffles on the ceiling are being installed to reduce noise in this area • new energy ...more

  • Blackboard SaaS Update 4

    • The focus of most of our testing over the last month has been making sure that our local settings in Blackboard work correctly. We’ve spent a lot of time working on the Welsh language translation. Our translation files are quite old and need updating, so we’ll be spending time getting the Welsh interface working correctly. We’re ...more

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber - Mehefin 2019

  • OA Repository Newsletter - June 2019

  • Digital Insights 2018/19 benchmarking data

    • As promised in the previous post outlining some of the key findings of this year’s Digital Insights survey for students we will now present you with the benchmarking data from 29 other Higher Education in UK (14560 responses from students). Having access to the benchmarking data gives us an opportunity to judge how well we are ...more

  • Hugh Owen Library, Iris de Freitas room refurbishment: 3D architect's plans

    • Exciting to see how plans for the refurbishment of the Iris de Freitas room on Level E of the Hugh Owen Library are progressing. The architect has provided us with a "fly-though" 3-D representation of the refurbishment so far: https://youtu.be/-Uosb6VwfJA (by kind permission of George and Tomos architects) and come and visit the library to ...more

  • Findings of the Digital Insights survey running at AU for the second time!

    • Last year Aberystwyth University took part in the pilot of JISC Student Digital Experience Tracker - an online survey designed by JISC to collect information about students’ expectations and experiences of technology. The 2017/18 pilot has led to a new Jisc service now called Digital Experience Insights. Digital Insights survey for students run at AU in ...more

  • OA Repository Newsletter - May 2019

  • Spellcheck your feedback in Turnitin

    • If you’re anything like us, we have been a little bit obsessed with Line of Duty recently (no spoilers here) and understand how the misspelling of the word ‘definately’ can have potentially catastrophic consequences and we wouldn’t want anyone to be accused of being in league with OCGs. We’ve found a way in which you can ...more

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Mai 2019

  • Iris de Freitas refurbishment, Hugh Owen Library: area now closed from 29th May 2019

    • To prepare for refurbishment work on the Iris de Freitas and Hermann Ethe rooms on Level E of the Hugh Owen Library during summer/autumn 2019, this area will now be closed to users from 13:00 on Wednesday 29th May after the final exam has taken place. We expect to re-open the space on the 4th ...more

  • OA Repository Newsletter – April 2019