Latest posts from the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit blog
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 […]
Weekly Resource Roundup – 10/9/2025
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 September 2025
In the September update, we want to draw your attention to a number of test and question updates, including the ability to add question titles. In addition to this, there are enhancements to group tests, time consistency, and enhancing documents with block styling options. New: Add and manage question titles in tests, forms, and […]
Weekly Resource Roundup – 4/9/2025
September October 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.
Vevox Polling Tool Training
Over 180 colleagues across the University made use of Vevox, our polling tool, last year. Close to 4000 polls were created across nearly 1000 sessions, with over 27,000 participants. Vevox allows your participants to use their mobile devices to respond to a series of questions. You can use this for many activities in the classroom: […]