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Information about updates to the University virtual learning environment.

Category: Course Design

Reading Time: 3 minutes To support colleagues with the move to Learn Ultra, additional Migration Assistants were brought onboard in the run up to Semester One to provide expertise around moving very large and complex courses. In this post, Migration Assistant Paula Sivandan shares some advice for streamlining complex courses. The launch of Learn Ultra for the 2023-24 academic […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ahead of the roll-out of Learn Ultra to the wider University, Information Services Group (ISG) worked with a number of colleagues to make the switch to Ultra early as part of the Early Adopter Programme, (opens in a new window). Their experiences provide useful tips for other colleagues. In this blog post, Celeste McLaughlin, Head […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m delighted to say that we’ve just made Ally available for new courses going forward. Ally is an accessibility tool which is tightly integrated into Learn. It provides:  a choice of alternative formats of content for students (or staff!) which it creates on-demand (i.e., it takes your document and creates an alternative format with it […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes All courses taught in the 23/24 academic year need to be delivered using Learn Ultra. Before the start of teaching, courses need to be moved into their new Learn Ultra course instances. Course instances are the digital spaces in which you build your Learn Ultra courses.    We do not recommend you try to copy whole […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Accessibility Each year since its inception, the Learn Foundations internship programme has included, in addition to the more high-profile course migration process, two further pieces of work on course mapping and on course accessibility across the University. These are not supplementary processes, but central aspects of our work to better understand and support the Learn […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute In this Spotlight on Learn Ultra post, Stuart Nicol provides an update on the early adoption of Learn Ultra. Stuart is the Head of the Educational Design and Engagement (EDE) section in Information Services Group. Hopefully it will not come as a surpri…

Reading Time: < 1 minute In this Spotlight on Learn Ultra post, Stuart Nicol explains the ‘quick wins’ that the first step in the upgrade of Learn Ultra, Learn Ultra Base Navigation, can offer colleagues from summer 2022. Stuart is the Head of the Educational Desig…

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