Latest posts from the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit blog

Join us for Fix Your Content Day 2025

On November 18, Aberystwyth University will join institutions worldwide for Fix Your Content Day 2025, hosted by Anthology. This 24-hour competition is part of our ongoing commitment to inclusive education. We’ll be hosting a drop-in on 18th November between 2pm and 4pm in B23 Llandinam. E-learning Staff will be available to answer questions and help you […]

Weekly Resource Roundup – 13/10/2025

October November December Resources and publications Other Please see the Staff Training booking page for training offered by the LTEU and other Aberystwyth University staff. I hope you find this weekly resource roundup useful. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact our team at lteu@aber.ac.uk. Social Media: BSky, X.com.

Save the Date: 14th Annual Education and Student Experience Conference

We’re pleased to announce the dates for Aberystwyth University’s 14th annual Education and Student Experience Conference. We will be hosting the conference between Tuesday 8 – Thursday 10 September 2026. We will start work on planning and establishing themes and guest speakers for the conference. Conference themes, calls for proposals, and external speakers will be […]

Call for Proposals: Mini Conference: Generative AI

On Thursday 18 December, the Digital Education Team will be hosting their final event of the year, a mini conference on Generative AI. We are looking for calls for proposals from staff and students for this event. If you are interested in contributing, please complete this form by Friday 7 November. We are interested in […]

Collaborative Documents in Blackboard

There is currently an intermittent issue with collaborative documents in Blackboard which is preventing the documents being linked to a class. If you receive the error warning: Follow this workaround: We apologise for the inconvenience caused. We’re working with Blackboard and Microsoft to resolve this issue.

What’s new in Blackboard October 2025

In the October update, we want to draw your attention to a new feature with the Learning Object Repository. There is also an important and highly requested update to Fill in the Blank style question, and tagging questions in question banks to help colleagues with question organisation. Updates to the Learning Object Repository We were […]

Turnitin Scheduled Maintenance 25.10.2025

Turnitin will be unavailable between 16:00 and 22:00 on Saturday 25 October 2025 for scheduled maintenance. During this time, you will be unable to submit or grade any assessments. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 24/9/2025

September October November Resources and publications Other Please see the Staff Training booking page for training offered by the LTEU and other Aberystwyth University staff. I hope you find this weekly resource roundup useful. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact our team at lteu@aber.ac.uk. Social Media: BSky, X.com.

Education and Student Experience Conference Award Fund

At the 13th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, Professor Anwen Jones announced a fund of £10,000 for colleagues to bid against to a maximum of £2,000 for projects related to the conference theme: The University is providing half of the total funding, with the remainder coming from Medr, the Welsh universities regulator. We are looking […]