A lot of the time IT services are supporting users – that is, students and teaching staff – or work quietly in the background to assure systems and infrastructure are in good shape and fit for purpose. In my own role I rarely have an opportunity to see what happens “on the ground”, in the […]
In 2023, I started work on migrating three Drupal 7 websites over to Drupal 10. All three sites used a custom sub-theme based on Bootstrap 3. Each site had its own purpose, but they needed to look and feel similar. The main reason for the migration was that Drupal 7 was reaching its end-of-life.
If you’re anything like me, as the dark days bed in I start to look for treats and sparkles of all kinds to brighten up the winter days and nights. One of my favourite places to explore this time of year are the recipe sections on Wikibooks. Wikibooks is one of the Wikimedia sister projects, and is about collaboratively writing open-content textbooks that anyone (including you) can edit.
I recently attended the ALT Annual Conference in Glasgow from October 23rd – 24th and I was particularly looking forward to the theme of ‘Stronger Foundations, Broader Horizons’. In our ever fast changing landscape we need to adapt, show resilience and support the evolving foundations in learning technology.My main focus with the Association for Learning […]
On November 24th, 2025, four enthusiastic members of the University of Edinburgh’s Digital Skills Training Team spent a rewarding half-day volunteering at Fresh Start Edinburgh. Fresh Start is a charity devoted to helping people in the city who have experienced homelessness and are now transitioning to their new homes, typically social housing. With its hallmark […]
Content Improvement Club is our regular meetup for web publishers. In our November session we covered events pages. We worked in groups to create a journey map of the information people need from an events page at different points in time. We also spent time peer reviewing events pages people had brought along. We produce […]
As someone who started experimenting with LLMs early, back when they were much simpler than what we have now, I’ve always been fascinated by what they can do. Over time, my curiosity turned into a habit of trying out small, practical tasks just to see how well an LLM could handle them. This blog is […]
Earlier this year, the UX Service launched a new version of the Effective Digital Content (EDC) online course. This blog outlines why the course matters and how it supports anyone involved in creating or managing digital content across the University. In today’s digital world, information is constantly competing for attention. At the University, we publish […]
Data used I looked at bookings made in Event Booking for Digital Skills courses that ran from 1/9/24 to 1/9/25, where the person either attended or did not attend the course. Cancellations and bookings where attendance was not recorded were not included. I only included bookings that were made at least 1 day before the […]
Today, the 25th of November, is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. This marks the start of 16 Days of Activism – a campaign to end gender-based violence. Over half of all women and girls world-wide have experienced some form of harassment online. The United Nation’s theme for 16 Days of Activism in […]
