Monthly Archives: November 2014

Adding lynda.com content to Succeed

The University of Stirling has subscribed to lynda.com, a massive training resource of help videos providing quick answers to software problems or more in-depth training courses. Thanks to integration with the university’s portal, handled via Shibboleth, it is possible to add links to these lyndacom resources to your Succeed site, opening up a wealth of training resources and instructional videos. Students will click a link in Succeed and be taken to the resource in lynda.com without having to log in again.

A guide on how to add a link to a lynda.com resource to Succeed is now available on the IS web site:

http://www.stir.ac.uk/media/schools/is/documents/succeeddocuments/linking_to_lynda_from_succeed.pdf

Teaching Bites: Teaching, assessing and engaging large groups of students: a biological example

The following session has been added to the current series of Teaching Bites.

‘Teaching, assessing and engaging large groups of students: a biological example’

Large class sizes bring their own challenges to teaching, assessment and student engagement.  Level 1 Biology at the University of Glasgow has approximately 700+ students each year and has developed several different approaches to try and address such challenges.  Some have worked, some haven’t.  This meeting will show examples of these and explore any points that the audience wishes to discuss.

The session will be given by Dr Chris Finlay, Senior University Teacher, University of Glasgow and will take place on Friday 12th December, 13.00-14.00 in Room S10 in the Library.

To sign-up go into Succeed and then into Learning & Development – My Learning, IT & Information Skills, Succeed Training. Also don’t forget to bring your sandwiches!

These session can be available to remote campuses. To register for remote access please email Simon Booth.

Updated Succeed Documentation

Quite a few Succeed-related guides for staff and students have been updated in the past week or so, with the following guides now available containing updated step-by-step instructions and screen shots:

Listen Again and Camtasia Relay
Using the Camtasia Relay Portable Recorder
Creating Listen Again Recordings from Camtasia Studio 8
Lecture Recording (Listen Again) Consent Form
Quick Guide to Lecture Capture using Camtasia Relay
Subscribing to Lecture Podcasts via Listen Again
Recording Using TechSmith Fuse (the mobile version of Relay)

Blackboard Collaborate
Blackboard Collaborate Guide to Scheduling and Joining Sessions
Blackboard Collaborate Moderators’ User Guide
Blackboard Collaborate – Student User Guide

Turnitin and Assignment Submission
Submitting Your Assignment via Succeed

Contribute
Using Contribute With Succeed
Using Macromedia Contribute 3

All these updated guides may be found on either the Staff Succeed Help page at http://www.stir.ac.uk/is/staff/it/software/succeed/ or the Student Succeed Help page at http://www.stir.ac.uk/is/student/it/software/succeed/ and they are marked ‘(updated November 2014)’.

This is part of an on-going attempt to keep the supporting documentation for Succeed as up to date as possible.

Turnitin Webcast – Building Effective Peer Review Assignments

Turnitin Webcast – Building Effective Peer Review Assignments

The latest Turnitin Webcast, entitled, “Building Effective Peer Review Assignments” is being held next Thursday (20th November) at 21.00 (GMT). Members of the Turnitin Professional Development Team (Education Manager Kristin Brabec and Education Director Jason Chu) will provide an overview of how to use Turnitin to create effective peer review assignments. To join in with this Webcast visit the following web site:

http://go.turnitin.com/webcast/to-share-or-not-to-share

Again, a shiny ‘Certificate of Participation’ will be provided to attendees of the Webcast.

Teaching Bites: Common Problems in Student Writing

We have added another session to the current series of Teaching Bites. The session; ‘Common Problems in Student Writing’ is an informal discussion with Cherise Saywell (Royal Literary Fund Fellow) providing an overview of the kinds of issues students present, when bringing their work to Cherise. Cherise works in Arts and Humanities providing writing support to students in Pathfoot.

The session will take place on Monday 1st December, 13.00-14.00 in Room S10 in the Library.

To sign-up go into Succeed and then into Learning & Development – My Learning, IT & Information Skills, Succeed Training. Also don’t forget to bring your sandwiches!

These session can be available to remote campuses. To register for remote access please email Simon Booth.

Turnitin Webcast – Stopping Plagiarism at the Source

The latest Turnitin Webcast, entitled, “Stopping Plagiarism at the Source: Why Assignments Matter” is being held this Thursday (6th November) at 18.00 (GMT). Author Barry Gilmore will reconsider assignments with the goal of discovering how plagiarism can be stopped before it happens. To join in with this Webcast visit the following web site:

http://go.turnitin.com/e/45292/stopping-plagiarism-at-source/24yfz/137309965

As if finding out about plagiarism wasn’t enough on its own, Certificates of Participation will also be provided to attendees of the Webcast.