Latest posts from the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit blog
Weekly Resource Roundup – 13/10/2025
October November December Resources and publications Other Please see the Staff Training booking page for training offered by the LTEU and other Aberystwyth University staff. I hope you find this weekly resource roundup useful. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact our team at lteu@aber.ac.uk. Social Media: BSky, X.com.
Save the Date: 14th Annual Education and Student Experience Conference
We’re pleased to announce the dates for Aberystwyth University’s 14th annual Education and Student Experience Conference. We will be hosting the conference between Tuesday 8 – Thursday 10 September 2026. We will start work on planning and establishing themes and guest speakers for the conference. Conference themes, calls for proposals, and external speakers will be […]
Call for Proposals: Mini Conference: Generative AI
On Thursday 18 December, the Digital Education Team will be hosting their final event of the year, a mini conference on Generative AI. We are looking for calls for proposals from staff and students for this event. If you are interested in contributing, please complete this form by Friday 7 November. We are interested in […]
Collaborative Documents in Blackboard
There is currently an intermittent issue with collaborative documents in Blackboard which is preventing the documents being linked to a class. If you receive the error warning: Follow this workaround: We apologise for the inconvenience caused. We’re working with Blackboard and Microsoft to resolve this issue.
What’s new in Blackboard October 2025
In the October update, we want to draw your attention to a new feature with the Learning Object Repository. There is also an important and highly requested update to Fill in the Blank style question, and tagging questions in question banks to help colleagues with question organisation. Updates to the Learning Object Repository We were […]
Turnitin Scheduled Maintenance 25.10.2025
Turnitin will be unavailable between 16:00 and 22:00 on Saturday 25 October 2025 for scheduled maintenance. During this time, you will be unable to submit or grade any assessments. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Weekly Resource Roundup – 24/9/2025
September October November Resources and publications Other Please see the Staff Training booking page for training offered by the LTEU and other Aberystwyth University staff. I hope you find this weekly resource roundup useful. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact our team at lteu@aber.ac.uk. Social Media: BSky, X.com.
Education and Student Experience Conference Award Fund
At the 13th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, Professor Anwen Jones announced a fund of £10,000 for colleagues to bid against to a maximum of £2,000 for projects related to the conference theme: The University is providing half of the total funding, with the remainder coming from Medr, the Welsh universities regulator. We are looking […]
Weekly Resource Roundup – 17/9/2025
September October November Resources and publications Other Please see the Staff Training booking page for training offered by the LTEU and other Aberystwyth University staff. I hope you find this weekly resource roundup useful. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact our team at lteu@aber.ac.uk. Social Media: BSky, X.com.
What’s new in Blackboard Ally
Over the summer there have been some updates to Blackboard Ally which colleagues will find help them to fix issues with images and PDFs in Blackboard. AI Auto-generate description The AI auto-generate description tool has been improved to write better alternative text for charts, text in images, STEM content, and handwriting in images. Like all […]