Author: Stella

A helping hand with your e-learning ideas…

The E-Learning Production Service provides funding for members of Queen Mary staff embarking on e-learning activities that benefit students. We recruit Queen Mary students for specific projects and they are given the necessary technical training. We pay the students well, expect them to work to a high standard and support them throughout their work through a mentor from the E-Learning Unit.

Could you use a helping hand?

We are very pleased to announce the launch of the E-Learning Production Service to help staff across the College turn their e-learning ideas into real projects.

There is currently an issue with Turnitin assignments in Blackboard. Creating a new assignment or attempting to access an existing one will result in the error message “Failed to configure the proxy tool learning object”. We are aware of the cause of the problem and are working on resolving it. Turnitin should be available again [...]

If your students have been busy submitting their assignments in Blackboard throughout the year, you will have a large number of submissions that you’ll need to keep for a number of years to come. This post explains why you can’t leave old assignments in Blackboard and how to get them out.

The last few years have seen an increase in both the number of us using the VLE here at Queen Mary, and the breadth of activities we’re using it for. We’ve responded to both good and bad changes in the products and now the majority of departments are making extensive use of our current VLE [...]