Latest posts from the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit blog
Mini Conference: Neurodiversity, Tuesday 14 April: Programme Announcement
On 14 April, Student Journey with the Department of Psychology will be hosting their next Mini Conference, this time focusing on Neurodiversity. This event will take place in person. We’re excited to announce our programme. The programme is available on our webpages. We’ve got topics on neurodiversity and ai, neurodiversity and employability, and improving teaching […]
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Physical Sciences Library Take our short survey and let us know what you need from the space and resources in the Physical Sciences Library. Take the survey now: https://forms.office.com/e/LqJcUjvNss Closing date 10 April 2026. Please email feedback@aber.ac.uk with any questions.
Exemplary Course Award Winners 2025-26
We are delighted to announce the winner of this year’s annual Exemplary Course Award. Congratulations to our joint winners: The panel noted exemplary practices in the following areas: Many congratulations to our highly commended and commended recipients: Department of Geography and Earth Sciences’ Dr Tristram Irvine-Fynn and Dr Hywel Griffiths for the course GS25520: Glacial […]
Call for Proposals: 14th Education and Student Experience Conference, 8-10 September 2026
We are now inviting proposals for the 14th Annual Education and Student Experience Conference, Tuesday 8-Thursday 10 September 2026. Submit and view the call for proposals online. Please complete this form no later than 22 May 2026. The theme for this year’s conference is: Co‑Creating Inclusive Futures: Flexible, Diverse, and Competency‑Driven Learning The main strands […]
What’s new in Blackboard March 2026
In the March update, we want to draw your attention to the following Blackboard enhancements: Anonymous Grading by Question in Blackboard Tests Instructors can now grade anonymous by question in addition to grading anonymously by student. When grading anonymous test submissions in Question View, the interface replaces the student’s name, avatar, and ID with an […]
Turnitin Emergency Maintenance – 07.03.2026
Turnitin will be unavailable between 16:00 and 20:00 on Saturday 7 March 2026 for scheduled maintenance. During this time, you will be unable to submit or grade any assessments. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Panopto Scheduled Maintenance 21.03.2026
Panopto will be unavailable between 22:00, Saturday 21 March 2026 and 01:00 Sunday 22 March 2026 for scheduled maintenance. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Peer Assessment Tools available in our virtual learning environment
We recently ran our E-learning Enhanced: Using Turnitin for Peer Assessment training session and wanted to highlight the different tools that are available for Peer Assessment across our Digital Education Platform. Peer Assessment activities have several benefits to students: For Liu & Carless (2006), “peer assessment and peer feedback … enables students to take an […]
Blackboard User Group: Exemplary Course Award Presentation
We had the pleasure of recently presenting at the Blackboard User Group on the Exemplary Course Award that we run here at Aberystwyth University. Blackboard run their own Exemplary Course Programme which we use as the basis for our award. The session title, Celebrating Excellence, Shaping Practice: Aberystwyth University’s Exemplary Course Award Programme, charted the […]
What’s new in Blackboard February 2026
In the February update, we want to draw your attention to the following Blackboard enhancements: Use automations to remind students to check their feedback Automations are a relatively new feature in Blackboard. The latest feature allows you to automatically send a reminder message to students who have unread feedback after an instructor-defined number of days. […]