Getting Ready for the New Academic Year
It’s not long now until students are back for the new academic year. The TEL team have put in place …
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Mahara Upgrade – New and Improved Features
As of August 20th, Mahara, our e-portfolio system, has had an update and been upgraded to version 19.04. This blog post highlights some …
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Confidence in Assistive Tech Day
I recently attended an event, organised by Higher York, which demonstrated some of the assistive tech tools that are currently available at York …
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Padlet Pro Licences and TurningPoint Audience Response System
We have a couple of new tools available for the next academic year at York St John. Read on to …
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Case Study: Using Screencast-O-Matic in teaching
Member of staff: Julie Raby School: Humanities, Religion and Philosophy What is Screencast-O-Matic? Screencast-O-Matic is a computer screen capture software, …
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Presentation Translator for PowerPoint
About Presentation Translator Presentation Translator subtitles your live presentation straight from PowerPoint, and lets your audience join from their own …
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UP North Technology Showcase
On Friday 7th June, York St John held its annual learning and teaching conference, UP North. As part of this, …
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Case Study: Using OneDrive with Moodle
Summary of approach/tool OneDrive is an online storage space that York St John staff and students can use to store, …
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New Moodle Theme Testing
In preparation for the Moodle upgrade, the TEL team undertook testing focusing primarily on the new theme. We asked academic …
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Moodle: Scheduler Activity
A new activity, called Scheduler, has just been added on Moodle as part of the upgrade. This new feature will allow …
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