This post was written by Nandita Soma Shekar, a Digital Skills Trainer Intern in the 2024/25 academic year. During her internship, Nandita designed and delivered the first-ever SQL courses offered by the Digital Skills team at the University of Edinburgh, creating both live and self-paced learning experiences for students and staff. When I joined the […]
Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia The fourth year of the Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia concluded on 31st March 2025. Seven students (and one staff volunteer) completed this extracurricular digital research project amassing both the requisite 55-80 hours of volunteering time AND the significant & demonstrable impact in improving the topic coverage of their […]
This tutorial video is aimed for those who are new to the R programming language, the goal is to build a […]
Everyone thinks project management is about Gantt charts, RAG statuses, and risk logs. And yes, those are part of the toolkit. But what really drives projects are the people. Let me walk you through what it is like to manage projects at LTW. The day starts with quiet focus, with a quick pause to admire […]
Introduction People who attend Digital Skills Programme courses are asked to provide feedback by filling in an online form. In 2024/25 (19/06/24 – 18/06/25) we received 958 feedback form responses – an average of 80 responses a month. This was an increase compared to the average of 66 responses/month received in 2023/24. The majority of […]
In many ways the summer 2025 project of upgrading Moodle from 4.3.3 to 4.5.1 is an enjoyable one for the teams involved: it was the final upgrade of the long standing, and one of our favourite virtual learning environments (VLEs); the Apps team had upgraded the data server hardware and software in the past year […]
This post will be about the upgrade process and the experience I had when moved our Laravel apps from Ease to EntraID. Introduction The University of Edinburg has made a decision to move away from EASE (Cosign) SSO users authentication to EntraID (Azure – Microsoft). This meant to us that all the applications we […]
I don’t really understand how we got to the end of August (well, nearly) already. It feels like minutes ago we were welcoming the summer in with our new intern cohort and today is the day that most of our summer internships finish. I can’t tell you how much I …
As the Studio Manager for the Online Course Production Service, I recently had the opportunity to attend and present at the Media and Learning Conference in Leuven, Belgium. This gathering offered a variety of informative sessions and workshops that pr…
The Interactive Content team used ThingLink to create interactive learning materials for two Careers Services projects: ‘Skills For Success Framework’ and ‘Riding the Wave’. They chose ThingLink for its ability to add interactivity to graphics and its ease of embedding into EdWeb. The team collaborated with the Graphics Design service to create engaging and accessible content using ThingLink’s scenes and tags features.
