Category: community blog
Online Grading with Turnitin’s Grademark
In today’s session with Simon, participants explored the online marking tool GradeMark® which is provided by Turnitin, and can be accessed through Blackboard. You can try GradeMark® with the online demo so that you can get a feel of how it works. As an instructor, you will be able to…
September Events..whats on this week?
This week’s SaltIT sessions begin tomorrow (Tuesday 29th) with Stuart Henderson as he explains about using the on-line marking and feedback tool, Grademark. Stuart will show you how to edit and mark student’s work online with GradeMark®. You can use GradeMark to grade student’s written work (i.e. papers, essays,…
Lecture Capture at Swansea University
In todays SALT session it was me again! Yay!! The topic: Lecture Capture at Swansea University using eStream. A bit of a mouthful, thankfully using it is very straightforward. I say straight forward, the main stumbling block to using the lecture capture software (encoder) is the PC/laptop that the software…
Shiny websites and sparkly apps
Ran a session for SALT on IT resources today, I’m not an expert but I am a bit of magpie when it comes to shiny websites and sparkly apps so it’s always nice to share what has worked for me. It’s always lovely to come to SALT sessions and a…
What’s on this week?
This week’s SaltIT sessions begin tomorrow with Patricia Xavier as she shows how to turn mobile phones from distraction to attraction in your lectures. The session is to be based on the Salt conference session Using student devices to enhance engagement. If you would like to attend, you will need…
Getting Dirty with Xerte
Having returned from leave to be greeted with “You have the most popular session of the month”, suffice to say I was rather nervous! However, after 7 months of blood, sweat and tears, Xerte is finally up and running here in Swansea. The purpose of today’s session was to explain…
To Click or not to Click?
…that is the question. Today’s session led us to the Bay campus, where we were fortunate enough to be the first group to use the new PC labs. Unfortunately it did mean that we were unable to provide live streaming as the AV equipment wasn’t fully operational. There’s always a…
Collaboration with Google Drive
Most of us are quite familiar with Google as a search engine, and have probably even used the proper noun, Google, as a verb, if you don’t know it ‘google it’! However, Google offers an equally impressive set of tools that allow the user to “create, share, and edit” documents.…
Intro to Blackboard session 9th September 2015
Having spent most of the previous week fretting and being unreasonable to friends and family due to nerves at the prospect of being streamed live to the Universe University (it just felt like the Universe), this was actually OK ! I forgot a few things, I said a few things…
Online Grading with Turnitin’s Grademark
In today’s session with Simon, participants explored the online marking tool GradeMark® which is provided by Turnitin, and can be accessed through Blackboard. You can try GradeMark® with the online demo so that you can get a feel of how it works. As an instructor, you will be able to…
September Events..whats on this week?
This week’s SaltIT sessions begin tomorrow (Tuesday 29th) with Stuart Henderson as he explains about using the on-line marking and feedback tool, Grademark. Stuart will show you how to edit and mark student’s work online with GradeMark®. You can use GradeMark to grade student’s written work (i.e. papers, essays,…
Lecture Capture at Swansea University
In todays SALT session it was me again! Yay!! The topic: Lecture Capture at Swansea University using eStream. A bit of a mouthful, thankfully using it is very straightforward. I say straight forward, the main stumbling block to using the lecture capture software (encoder) is the PC/laptop that the software…
Shiny websites and sparkly apps
Ran a session for SALT on IT resources today, I’m not an expert but I am a bit of magpie when it comes to shiny websites and sparkly apps so it’s always nice to share what has worked for me. It’s always lovely to come to SALT sessions and a…
What’s on this week?
This week’s SaltIT sessions begin tomorrow with Patricia Xavier as she shows how to turn mobile phones from distraction to attraction in your lectures. The session is to be based on the Salt conference session Using student devices to enhance engagement. If you would like to attend, you will need…
Getting Dirty with Xerte
Having returned from leave to be greeted with “You have the most popular session of the month”, suffice to say I was rather nervous! However, after 7 months of blood, sweat and tears, Xerte is finally up and running here in Swansea. The purpose of today’s session was to explain…
To Click or not to Click?
…that is the question. Today’s session led us to the Bay campus, where we were fortunate enough to be the first group to use the new PC labs. Unfortunately it did mean that we were unable to provide live streaming as the AV equipment wasn’t fully operational. There’s always a…
Collaboration with Google Drive
Most of us are quite familiar with Google as a search engine, and have probably even used the proper noun, Google, as a verb, if you don’t know it ‘google it’! However, Google offers an equally impressive set of tools that allow the user to “create, share, and edit” documents.…
Intro to Blackboard session 9th September 2015
Having spent most of the previous week fretting and being unreasonable to friends and family due to nerves at the prospect of being streamed live to the Universe University (it just felt like the Universe), this was actually OK ! I forgot a few things, I said a few things…
