November 2016

  • Faculty Student Centre team building

    Last week, the Undergraduate Team and Graduate School took part in a team building day where we spoke about the new structure the teams will be moving in to. As you may or may not know, the Undergraduate Team and...

  • Macro of the Month: Roadmap Planner

    Introduction Roadmap Planner is a simple macro within Confluence that creates a map for projects. As well as displaying basic information about a project timeline, it can also be linked to more in-depth information on individual work packages. Roadmap Planner allows...

  • TEL Event #3 - Web conferencing

    Our third event saw Dr John Orr describe how he and his colleague, Dr Saverio Spadea, used a web conferencing tool called Adobe Connect to deliver a successful, blended workshop – with 20 participants on campus and another 50 online....

  • Using Wiki to improve processes

    I first used Wiki when I started in my current role to share papers for a group meeting. I only used very basic features to start with, such as uploading papers and using permissions to give new members access, but...

  • FED Learning Technologies survey prize winner

    Firstly, a big thank you to staff who completed the Faculty of Engineering and Design Technology Enhanced Learning survey. There were 50 respondents. The results give us some useful insights in key areas including which learning technologies are a high...