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Latest posts from across the AU blogging network

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 27/11/2023

    • As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics include active learning, online/blended teaching, accessibility/inclusion, and effective learning design based on cognitive science. Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past week. In the ...more

  • DigiTip 13 - Schedule and Delay delivery of your emails in Outlook 📨

    • Depending on who you would like to communicate with, sometimes it is more convenient to schedule and delay your emails for another time. This gives you more time to re-edit the content of your email again if necessary and you can plan for less stress in the future if you can prepare your emails in ...more

  • Navigating Digital Wellbeing: A Personal Journey in the Digital Age

    • Blogpost by Noel Czempik (Student Digital Champion) As a Student Digital Champion, I embarked on a quest to better understand our digital world and its impact on our lives. Despite acquiring knowledge about the tools and resources it offers, I was discontent with my relationship with technology. This discontent prompted deeper introspection and a lot of ...more

  • The Power of Digital Wellness: Introducing our Digital Wellbeing Series  

    • Blogpost by Joel Williams (Student Digital Champion) One focus for the Student Digital Champions this year is to explore strategies and programs we’ve used to increase our digital wellbeing. This series will explore what digital wellbeing is and will consist of posts and infographics discussing reducing eyestrain, digital detox, working environment and much more!    This information ...more

  • November 2023 Blackboard Learn Ultra Update

    • The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit would like to highlight five enhancements for Instructors from the November Blackboard Learn Ultra Update. These enhancements are in three areas: Making your content more visual using Images. Updates to Tests. Managing your Gradebook. Making your content more visual using images: 1. Image insertion option for Ultra Documents, Journals, Discussions, Assessment ...more

  • Mastering Your Schedule: A Student's Guide to Time Management Tools ⌚

    • Blogpost by Joel Williams (Student Digital Champion) As module handbooks are released, work and deadlines can quickly feel overwhelming. In this post, I will show you some of the programs I've used to help take back control of my studies, which should aid you when managing your workload. The first two programs, Microsoft–To-Do & Google Tasks, are ...more

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  • DigiTip 12 - Getting Microsoft Word to Read Aloud to you 🔊

    • Do you find it easier to proofread a document or an email when you can hear what you’ve written? Luckily, there’s a useful function called Read Aloud that will play back written text as spoken words, and this is available in several Microsoft 365 apps, including Word and Outlook. It can read both Welsh and ...more

  • Can’t find the item that you are after in your Blackboard Ultra Course? Try the search function.

    • In this blogpost we’re outlining a useful feature to help both staff and students navigate their Blackboard Courses. If you can’t find the content that you’re after or you need to navigate to an area of a course quickly, try using the search function which is available in all courses. The course search function appears at the ...more

  • AU Graduates Digital Skills Profile Series – Week 4 (Physics Graduate)

    • Our last profile for this semester is a recent Physics graduate who has had an exciting career since leaving Aberystwyth University in 2002 and is now teaching himself computer programming and is hoping to find a new career in that field. At AU we have lots of resources to help you learn new things such ...more

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  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 14/11/2023

    • As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics include active learning, online/blended teaching, accessibility/inclusion, and effective learning design based on cognitive science. Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past week. In the ...more

  • DigiTip 11: Introducing the self-care app Finch 🐥

    • Finch is a self-care app designed to help you set realistic wellness goals to achieve throughout the day.   The app includes features such as a focus or meditation timer, reflection diaries, quizzes, and soundscapes.   Help your Finch avatar grow by earning points through completing your daily goals. The daily goals can be remembering to drink water, taking ...more

  • Blackboard Messages

    • Staff teaching on Blackboard courses can use the Messages tool to send messages to their students, and these are often sent by email. Because of the way that the Message tool works, all messages are sent from the e-learning support email address (bb-team@aber.ac.uk ), rather than the staff members’ personal email addresses. Replying to a Message ...more

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  • AU Graduates Digital Skills Profile Series – Week 3 (Stephanie Mogridge)

    • Week 3 is our interview with Stephanie who works for TSB Banking in Mortgage Servicing and feels she got a pretty good grip of data literacy while at AU but wished she’d learnt more about her digital identity and wellbeing. If you'd like to learn more about your own digital identity and wellbeing, why not ...more

  • DigiTip 10 - Brainstorm new ideas using the whiteboard in MS Teams 💡

    • Do you need to brainstorm new ideas with your peers for a group assignment? Or perhaps you have a work project that you want to discuss new ideas for with colleagues? The whiteboard in Microsoft Teams is a fantastic tool for this and provides you with a range of templates to choose from.   Watch the video ...more

  • Join us next week for the Digital Skills Festival! 🎆

    • Aberystwyth University’s first Digital Skills Festival for students will take place next week from 6 to 10 November 2023!   Throughout the week, there will be 28 events covering an array of topical digital areas. Events will include presentations on Artificial Intelligence, online safety, digital wellbeing, managing your digital footprint, and using Welsh on your computer. Additionally, ...more

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 2/11/2023

    • As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics include active learning, online/blended teaching, accessibility/inclusion, and effective learning design based on cognitive science. Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past week. In the ...more

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