Reading Time: 3 minutes The LOUISA team completed an initial round of user research as part of the User Experience (UX) plan.   This is the second post about the User Experience (UX) activities taking place for LOUISA. For an introduction to the UX plan, please see this previous blog post:  A UX strategy to improve the course assessment experience […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes The UX Team are involved with a new project that will optimise Learn Ultra for assessment and feedback.   The LOUISA project aims to enhance the assessment and feedback process for students and staff LOUISA (Learn Optimised for In-Course Submission and Assessment) is a project that has recently been launched within the Learning, Teaching and Web […]

Reading Time: 8 minutes The latest phase of Learn Ultra research investigated the staff and student experience, with a focus on Learn Ultra courses, to guide the next phase in the upgrade.  A programme of multi-method user experience research sought to investigate ways in which Learn Ultra had enhanced staff and student experiences, and to identify areas where there […]

Reading Time: 9 minutes To ensure the ongoing implementation of Learn Ultra remains as user-centred as possible, staff and students were engaged in user experience research between May and October 2022.  In a continuation of the Learn Foundations project approach, a programme of user experience research – involving various methods – was carried out with staff and students to […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes In preparation for moving to Learn Ultra it was important to find out staff and students’ experiences of actually using Learn Ultra courses. This insight is guiding the continuing development and iteration of Learn Ultra has helped the project team identify areas of improvement.  The project to upgrade to Learn Ultra is part of the […]

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: 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: 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 […]

Reading Time: < 1 minutes   I have recently been involved in the Learn Ultra Project that has been tasked to upgrade Learn Original, the University’s centrally supported virtual learning environment (VLE). Being part of a team that is focusing on the Ultra Base Navigation menu …