Category: Learning Technologies

Tips on how to get the best out of your learning technologies.

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Track Student Completion of the Academic Integrity Module and Compare Past Units Using iLearn Insights

iLearn Insights is continuing to add new tools and reports to aid teaching staff in visualising unit information and communicating with students. Over the coming weeks we will be highlighting the new features that are available to all teaching staff. This post will highlight two new features: ...

/ 25 January, 2019

3D Digital Heritage Capture: Macquarie Lightstation 200 years

On 30 November 2018, 200 years to the day of the first Macquarie lighthouse being lit, we launched a digital heritage resource at a civic event next to the lighthouse as well as on our website and the Trust’s website so...

/ 11 December, 2018
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iLearn Is Having A Facelift

iLearn is changing in February 2019. Nothing too drastic, it'll undergo a facelift, so the navigation and layout will be slightly different. Familiarise yourself now with the changes so you don't get caught out in February.

/ 18 October, 2018

Thoughts On The Inspired Learning Summit

I recently attended the Inspired Learning Summit at UNSW which focused on 'students as partners'. Check out what I learned about putting students in the centre of design, and about adaptive learning technologies, interactive tools and emerging video trends.

/ 15 October, 2018
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Building Your iLearn Unit For Session 3 

Building an iLearn unit to support your compressed curriculum for Session 3 (S3) is challenging. Your S3 iLearn unit must suit the shorter five-week study period whilst still maintaining identical learning outcomes, equivalent assessment and student workload as S1 and...

/ 3 October, 2018
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Email Students Directly From Your Insights Dashboard

A new feature in iLearn Insights allows teaching staff to email students directly from the dashboard. Similar to MEAP and PLD, teaching staff can tailor their messaging to certain students based on specific iLearn activity or grades.

/ 20 September, 2018
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Make iLearn Fun and Engaging with H5P

H5P is an tool that can help you create fun and engaging interactive activities in iLearn. There are over 40 content types including course presentation, drag and drop, fill in the blanks, hot spots, image sequencing and many more.

/ 29 August, 2018
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iLearn Insights Update – View Unit Access Trends Across Session, Category Level Access + Upcoming Workshop

New features in iLearn Insights include Category level access, to easily view reports for all units inside a Category, and the ability to filter the Unit Access Graph to visualise student access over 1, 2, 3 or 4 month increments.

/ 9 August, 2018
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All New MAC101

MAC101 has had a slick new makeover and contains updated information such as what’s happening when the train station closes and new modules to help students find their feet and hit the ground running. We'd love your feedback as we...

/ 9 August, 2018