I enjoyed taking part in the Digital Leaders Summit for 2025, organised by Boye & Co and hosted at the University of Cambridge. We achieved a lot in a single day – sharing work and ideas and discussing trends and challenges in digital leadership across multiple sectors. In my role running the University’s UX Service, […]
Switching jobs from one university to another might seem like it wouldn’t be a big deal, and in some ways, it isn’t. But in the world of higher education, particularly in the realm of Learning Technology, changing institutions can actually be quite significant. Institution and LMS ‘Switcharoo’ Although my expertise in supporting Moodle was helpful […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesI had the privilege to attend “Practical Project Management for Staff”, a one-day course run by the University’s Project Management Office. Project Management Office | Project Management My line manager suggested the course as something of interest, as I have worked on large and small-scale projects at the university, and I now find myself projectContinue reading Project Management for Non-Project Managers
Now in its third year, the annual Scottish Web Folk conference was organised and hosted by the brilliant Web Services team at the University of Dundee on 30 October. Nick, Katie and Emma from the UX Service enjoyed attending and delivering presentations. Here, they reflect on their highlights from a brilliant day of learning and […]
The UX Service launched a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course in May this year. You can read about how we built the new version of the course in previously published blogs: Our six-part series on building the Effective Digital Content course Six practical tips: what we learnt building a new online […]
Nelly and I were invited to speak at Kaltura Connect in London today (at the fantastic Science Gallery @KCL). Kaltura is the service we use to provide our own Media Hopper Create service for media storage and streaming. It was a fun day, we got a chance to catch up …
This month we have deployed some more updates to MyEd, the University’s web portal. These are the latest in a series deployed as part of this year’s MyEd upgrade project. Keeping things up to date The infrastructure that MyEd uses needs to be kept up-to-date and secure as well as the applications that make up […]
This video is a recording of the showcase event ‘AI in Scottish Schools A Showcase of Resources for Primary & […]
On 30 October, I was delighted to attend Scottish Web Folk at the University of Dundee. This was the second time I’d attended this particular conference – you can read about my previous experience here: Scottish Web Folk 2024: A portal practitioner’s perspective Generative AI was a major theme from both suppliers and institutions There […]
In our October session of Content Improvement Club, we divided up into breakout rooms and worked on the same page of content. Then we came back together and compared the edits we had made. This session helped us to learn about what different editors look for when working on a piece of content. The aim […]
