I recently attended a JISC event @ Bolton College which discussed the usage of chatbots at the institution (thank to Jisc and Bolton for the hospitality). Bolton are doing  alot with chatbots and are using IBM Watson Conversation (which is now rebranded as Watson Assistant)  and starting to expand from text to voice platforms (e.g. […]

When I am usually asked ‘what do you do?’ by friends or relatives I consider my reply however most of the time I state that I work with digital learning technologies within a university. This is usually met with the statement ‘do you turn things off and on again?’ to which I quickly retort ‘I […]

I have been reading a lot about AI and bots and in my own naive mind thought this would encompass working with other leading-edge institutions, SMEs and large global companies (having not worked with this technology or dare I say if it is pedagogically applicable to education). Much to my surprise upon reading articles, watching […]

Learn will be upgraded on Wednesday 5th July to version Q4 2016 CU3 (Yippee!) The upgrade includes a snazzy new theme which aligns with the Edinburgh Global Experience Language (basically it aligns with the University look and feel) and is responsive (aka it scales better on a mobile device).

Learn was updated to Cumulative Update 2 on Tuesday 21st Feb. The update includes bug fixes and patches and doesn’t introduce any new functionality. It might sound a bit boring however the update will resolve some known issues (for an up-to-date list of known issue please visit the Learn Known Issues Wiki): Email message body […]

The Turnitn Feedback Studio (the jazzy version of the Document Viewer) was enabeld on 1st Aug 2016. The first semester has now ended and we have compiled some information that may be useful to users: 41% of all submissions used Grade mark Grade Mark usage has increased 10% compared to Semester 1 15/16 28% increase […]