This year RMIT’s Learning Management System will begin a transition from Blackboard into Canvas. Those of you who attended the Project Rewire launches would have heard Martin Bean and Belinda Tynan … Read More
Analytics: Improving the Student Experience through Feedback
This project encompassed four areas of activity with the aim of both impacting students through the feedback of learning data; and impacting teaching staff through methods for designing student feedback … Read More
Updates to Turnitin Resources
You would remember my post “Introducing Turnitin Feedback” from the 1st of March about the new Turnitin Interface.  In the past few days, I have been updating some of our existing … Read More
Introducing Turnitin Studio Feedback
On Friday 2 December 2016, RMIT University upgraded its version of Turnitin Classic to the new Feedback Studio.  While still offering the same functionalities as the old version, Feedback Studio offers a … Read More
Enhancements to Blackboard
Just sharing with you all that on the 2nd of December Blackboard will be upgraded. Â Although the changes to take place are considered to be minor, these enhancements are very … Read More
Upgrade to Turnitin
Turnitin has recently released a product upgrade which will be available to RMIT University on the 3rd of December 2016. Â This new upgrade called Turnitin Feedback Studio will replace … Read More
The #FlexibleLMS. When does more than one become better?
Great universities have more than one LMS. The LMS can be a flexible space where by taking a multiple LMS approach, larger institutions can strengthen teaching and learning as well as infrastructure capability.
Fitbit for Education
photo by Lee Bennett cc licence on Flickr There are a number of challenges we are now facing with learner analytics. In our 2016 LTIF project we have a … Read More
Why University Learning Management Systems are the temporary classrooms of today
Be warned, I’m about to torture an analogy. You might want to look away if you’re squeamish. Growing up in Yorkshire in the 70s and 80s I went to a … Read More
Learning Analytics LTIF update
Just as you need to get up early to climb Mt Fuji, if you want to start an LTIF project in semester one, it helps to get the ethics application … Read More