Resources

Meet Teaching Excellence award winner Lisa Taylor

Lisa Taylor is a Senior Lecturer Fashion Business and Technology Department of Materials. She led the Fashion Education and Inclusive Learning Innovators (FEILI) team that won the Inclusive Education and Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery award at the 2024 Teaching Excellence Awards for their Digital Learning Technologies Project: a Creative Combination to Augment Applied Learning. Here she tells us more about the project and what the future might hold.

Cadmus is now available for 2024/25

We are happy to announce that a new assessment tool called Cadmus will be available to use in Blackboard across the University from Monday, 30th September 2024.  What is Cadmus? Cadmus is a secure online assessment platform accessed through the University’s Central Learning Environment (Blackboard). It facilitates the whole assessment cycle from assessment design through […]

Assessment and Progression – where are we now?

Lorna Dawson is the Interim Head of Teaching, Learning and Student Experience for the School of Natural Sciences. Here she provides an update on the developments in assessment and progression following the review in the summer of 2023. I think many colleagues will be familiar with the challenges we encountered regarding Assessment and Progression (A&P), […]

Gradescope Programming

Gradescope is a tool which enables submission of programming code. This article introduces the Gradescope programming assignment and signposts to useful documentation and sources of support.

Canvas Essentials: Quizzes

This article will compare Canvas Quizzes to Blackboard Tests. This is not intended to be a training piece; it is an overview of the features, giving you some ideas on how Canvas compares to Blackboard. Quizzes can be created in Canvas to support assessment and feedback. Quizzes can be used for formative and summative assessments […]