Reading Time: 5 minutes In this post, Course Organiser Madeleine Campbell and Learning Technologist Jamie Auld Smith share their experience of implementing an integrated Learn assignment rubric with the aim of enhancing the consistency of essay feedback provided to postgraduate students while ensuring a practical and transparent marking and moderation workflow. Jamie and Madeleine share this work on behalf […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Turnitin integration with Learn assignments allows instructors to use Turnitin’s similarity checker within a Learn assignment making the most of Learn’s flexible grading view and marking features. The similarity checker compares the text in a student submission against an extensive database of websites, academic reference materials and previously submitted work, to produce a similarity […]

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 As part of the Learn upgrade, all courses must move into Learn Ultra before the start of AY 23/24 teaching. More than 160 courses have already made the move as part of the Learn Ultra Early Adopter programme. Over the coming weeks, we will be publishing a series of blog posts from the Early Adopters […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes January 2023 – 3900.56 Release This post provides a summary of the upcoming changes including those features which we have highlighted due to their impact. For more in depth technical detail additional details are available on the release page Highlights for this release include: See and edit marks for anonymous submissions prior to posting In […]

Reading Time: < 1 minutes 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: 2 minutes The option to turn on progress tracking is now available to course instructors, however by default it is not enabled. It therefore requires manual intervention to turn progress tracking on for any course, this can be done at any time (and turned off again too) and requires two simple steps, one to select the option […]

Reading Time: < 1 minutes In this Spotlight on Learn Ultra post, Karen Howie presents her take on the work being done to improve our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). Karen is Head of Digital Learning Applications and Media in Learning, Teaching & Web (part of Information…

Reading Time: 7 minutes Learn Ultra is the newest version of Learn, the University’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). The University is planning a phased upgrade to Learn Ultra as part of the VLE Excellence programme and the wider University 2030 Strategy and Digital Strategy. As part of a programme of user experience (UX) activities to support the upgrade of […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes As part of the Learn Ultra Upgrade project,  members of the Educational Design and Engagement team conducted a series of workshops and hybrid user experience testing and interview sessions with students on internships within Information Services, to help the project team understand how the integration of the new Ultra Base Navigation (UBN) layer could be […]