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Do you know what PDF files are? Do you have to submit your assignment in a PDF file? Do you read academic journals and articles related to your course? Do you print them or you read it on a computer? If you read it on a computer then this article has some interesting information for [...]

ELU will shortly be running a workshop – “Q-Review: Recording your Lecture and Getting it Online”. The session is suitable for anyone interested in recording lectures, podcasting and e-learning. In the workshop we will look at how the system is situated in QMUL, consider a few examples of its use, hear some feedback from staff and students, learn how to request a recording and learn some of the more advanced features of Echo360 (like editing).

This year, among the significant changes to our services (of which more very soon), we need to let you know two bits of information about our name and status. 1. We’ve dropped the ‘Distance’ from our name, and are to be simply and pithily known as the E-Learning Unit. We’ve done this for a couple [...]

Last term we had the first event for the VLE Selection Project, phase 1, in which we gather requirements from around QM. It was called “What I Wish I Could do in Blackboard, but Can’t”. Thanks to all who attended – it was a really useful session and a good snapshot of some of the [...]

What is it? Q-Review (http://www.esddelu.org.uk/tag/q-review/) is a ‘lecture capture’ service. The software underlying Q-Review is called Echo360. It will record video, audio, and the presenter’s screen (e.g. PowerPoint, notations or webpages) and combine these into a user-friendly web-based format. The system can automatically record scheduled lectures, produce learning resources and publish them to a choice [...]