I had the pleasure of attending the 2025 PHP UK Conference in London on 19th of February. The speakers were amazing, and each session gave us practical tips on the challenges we face as software developers and the cutting-edge tech being developed by other developers. The conference had two tracks concurrently running most of the […]
If you are interested in helping users and people, we have an interesting summer internship for you which is about checking our services to make sure they are as accessible as they can be for all our users.
When I went to university, we didn’t have lecture recording. To be honest, I’ll admit that when I went to university, the ‘AV kit’ in a room was an overhead projector and a chalk board. I struggled with lectures. They were often boring to my 18 year old self and …
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. Over the last five years I have written personal blog posts detailing my traumatic sight loss journey. To help others better understand the significant changes in my vision I also created a series of interactive simulations (H5P files).
Wikipedia at 24 “With more than 250 million views each day, Wikipedia is an invaluable educational resource”.[1] In light of Wikipedia turning 24 years this week (January 15th), and the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh turning 9 years old this week too, this post is to examine where we are with Wikipedia today in light […]
This is my reflection on my 2024. It’s for me but you can come along for a few minutes. First reflection, why have I not blogged more this year! Simple answer its been hectic but I feel like I could have reflected on a more regular basis the 12 month journey. Second reflection, what a […]
In April 2024, Turnitin released a Paper Lookup tool for Instructors in Learn Ultra course to retrieve, and download, students’ submissions. This is useful for accessing the submissions that had become unavailable after the disabling of the legacy Turnitin integration in Learn course (generally those from AY 2021-2022 and earlier), and will also provide access […]
AI is getting more accessible (as in more easily available or pushed-down-our-throat, depending on your perspective). My home Windows 11 laptop now has the ‘free’ version of copilot on it, in the taskbar, pretty obviously it’s also available in the Bing search and I’m expecting Apple Intelligence to drop onto …
A user group is a great way to get the latest product gossip from the supplier and more importantly other institutions. They are great ways to network, get inspiration from peers and generally gauge where we are in the current implementation compared to others (plus free pastries).The Canvas UK & Ireland user group was hosted […]
Turnitin have released a new version of the Similarity Report in Feedback Studio recently. It has been made available to all staff on Tuesday 19 November and, for the time being, you will be able to choose whether to use the new “Beta View” or continue to use the “Classic” Similarity Report. The default option […]
