Latest posts from the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit blog
Weekly Resource Roundup – 27/10/2025
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.
Turnitin App Retirement
Turnitin has announced the retirement of their Turnitin app at the end of the year, December 2025. The Feedback Studio iPad app will be retired and no longer available. Instructors can continue to access Feedback Studio as usual through Blackboard. This includes mobile devices and tablets. Turnitin are working on developing a New Standard Assignment, […]
Merged Courses – our most frequently asked topic in September
We’ve had a look at all the queries that came into the elearning@aber.ac.uk inbox over September to see what the most common query was. And the answer is … Merged Courses. So, here’s some useful information about merging courses which can help to answer some of your queries: We’ve also had questions about enrolments – […]
Uploading Offline Panopto recordings
Some staff will have made offline Panopto recordings because of the impact of an Amazon Web Services service disruption on Panopto on Monday 20th October. All offline recordings will need to be uploaded to the Panopto servers before they can be made available to students. Instructions are available in our FAQ How do I manually […]
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 […]