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Melissa Highton

Melissa Highton

Assistant Principal and Director of Learning, Teaching and Web

Month: May 2026

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Canvas have apologised for the trouble they caused. Always exciting to see learning technology in the news Canvas hack: Company pays criminals to delete students’ stolen data – BBC News We wave goodbye to Emily, our Captioning Consultant intern from Informatics, who has been seduced away […]

Dear All,   Thank you for your work this week. Well done to all our newly qualified Change Mangers and well done to everyone who made it through two days of Power BI training. Congratulations to Robert for being shortlisted in the e-Assessment Awards 2026 (the Best Practitioner of the Year Individual). Thank you to […]

Dear All,   Thank you for your work this week. Happy May Day morning. I trust you have all been up Arthurs Seat this morning washing your face in the dew. While the weather has been lovely I have appreciated seeing you all together in Forrest Hill Drill Hall. I hope you are managing to […]

Dear All,   Thank you for your work this week. Thank you to everyone who helped in managing the major internet outage incident on Thursday. It was ‘specially timed to give Myles a scare as he takes over as interim Head of DLAM from the start of May. You will have seen the news that […]

Dear All,   Thank you for your work this week. This week we welcome back Mary, but prepare to say goodbye to Karen, one of our section heads, who after 20+ years at Edinburgh University has finally had enough of us and is moving on. It’s a tough time to be a karen, but Our […]

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