Latest posts from the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit blog
What’s new in Blackboard November 2025
In the November update, we want to draw your attention to a new feature: generate and upload custom Achievements badge. In addition to this, we have also got an automated option to generate messages to students based on their assignment scores. There is an update to tests with the functionality to bulk amend test question […]
Education and Student Experience Award Fund Recipients
Earlier this year, Professor Anwen Jones announced the Education and Student Experience Award Fund at the 13th Annual Education and Student Experience Conference. We are delighted to confirm this year’s winners and the 4 enhancement projects that they will be leading over the coming year: Thank you to all applicants for submitting a proposal and […]
Exemplary Course Award 2026: Applications Open
Applications for the Exemplary Course Award 2026 are now open. The deadline for submissions is 12pm, 30 January 2026. As part of this process, applicants are asked to identify 3 standout practices and assess their course across 4 areas: The application form is available to download from our webpages. To assist colleagues, we have a […]
Weekly Resource Roundup – 3/11/2025
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: B
Vevox Update: October 2025
There are some new features available in the latest Vevox (Polling Tool) update that we wanted to draw your attention to. For those unfamiliar with Vevox, the polling software can be used to ask students questions and for them to respond live using their mobile devices. For information on how to use Vevox, see our webpage. […]
Weekly Resource Roundup – 27/10/2025
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.
Turnitin App Retirement
Turnitin has announced the retirement of their Turnitin app at the end of the year, December 2025. The Feedback Studio iPad app will be retired and no longer available. Instructors can continue to access Feedback Studio as usual through Blackboard. This includes mobile devices and tablets. Turnitin are working on developing a New Standard Assignment, […]
Merged Courses – our most frequently asked topic in September
We’ve had a look at all the queries that came into the elearning@aber.ac.uk inbox over September to see what the most common query was. And the answer is … Merged Courses. So, here’s some useful information about merging courses which can help to answer some of your queries: We’ve also had questions about enrolments – […]
Uploading Offline Panopto recordings
Some staff will have made offline Panopto recordings because of the impact of an Amazon Web Services service disruption on Panopto on Monday 20th October. All offline recordings will need to be uploaded to the Panopto servers before they can be made available to students. Instructions are available in our FAQ How do I manually […]
Join us for Fix Your Content Day 2025
On November 18, Aberystwyth University will join institutions worldwide for Fix Your Content Day 2025, hosted by Anthology. This 24-hour competition is part of our ongoing commitment to inclusive education. We’ll be hosting a drop-in on 18th November between 2pm and 4pm in B23 Llandinam. E-learning Staff will be available to answer questions and help you […]