Category: Learning Technologies

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

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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
Macquarie University Library

Referencing Drop-In Sessions At The Library

The Library's bibliographic referencing drop-in sessions, 'Wrestling With References', are running again this session. Drop by to get help with Endnote, Mendeley or Zotero.

/ 6 August, 2018
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New Features Added To iLearn Insights

From early feedback on the iLearn Insights tool, we've added three new features, available on 3 August 2018. The new features are various filtering options for assignment submissions, more access controls, and downloadable spreadsheets.

/ 2 August, 2018