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The new curricular units for 2025/26 will be available on Brightspace from the morning of Monday 4th August. What do I need to do to access new units? Visit our Getting access guide for how to access new units as a Unit leader, Teaching Team staff, Programme Leader or Programme Support Team staff. What do… Read more » about Preparing units for 25/26 and key dates
The latest update, now available on the JISC Learning Analytics platform includes a new report where you can view an individual student’s attendance record. This report includes details on each of the sessions, filtering by date range, session type, unit and shows an attendance rate which refreshes based on the filtering that you have set…. Read more » about JISC LA: New attendance report
Due to the University restructure, the release of 2025/26 units on Brightspace will be delayed this year. We anticipate this date to be early August but will confirm as soon as possible. As this is later than in previous years, we recommend that any staff who wish to begin preparing their unit content in Brightspace… Read more » about Preparing units for 2025/26 and key dates
The JISC LA platform will be updated on 12/03/25 with an improvement which will slightly change how ‘unexpected students’ are presented on the system. What are ‘unexpected’ students? Students are able to check in for any session where the code has been shared with them. They can do this from 10 minutes before the start… Read more » about Attendance capture: Improvement to better handle ‘Unexpected’ students
What: Simscape is a powerful tool for modeling multidomain physical systems, widely used by industry leaders in mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic domains. By integrating Simscape models into your teaching, you can promote model-based design—a crucial skill that fosters innovation and precision in engineering. When: Wednesday, November 20th, 2024, at 14:00 Who should attend: This session is ideal for educators… Read more » about Webinar: Creating Engineering Teaching Examples with Simscape
A new update to Brightspace that will be enabled on Monday 14th October will provide a more ‘joined-up’ experience by showing a summary page for quizzes, discussions and external tool (LTI) activities on the page in Content, rather than prompting both staff and students to open the activity in a new window. The new display… Read more » about Brightspace activities to be displayed ‘inline’ in Content
The JISC LA platform has been redesigned to provide a more modern user interface and improved functionality and usability for attendance capture and monitoring. Many of these improvements have been the result of our staff feedback via surveys and enquiries which have been collated during the last two years. Watch a video on the platform… Read more » about JISC Learning Analytics ‘summer upgrade’ for 2024/25
We are experiencing a rapid pace of digital transformation in HE including Generative Artificial Intelligence that impacts our approach to developing inclusive and engaging learning and teaching strategies. A reminder that FLIE have developed some resources to support staff in their pedagogical enhancement and innovation. Our Engaging Assessment Practices In the Era of Generative AI area… Read more » about Engaging Assessment Practices in the Era of Generative AI
We are currently aware of an issue affecting audio feedback (“Voice comments”) with Turnitin assignments. Voice comments must be recorded using Firefox or Safari browsers Issue Where audio feedback (“Voice comments”) has been recorded by staff on a student assignment using Chrome or Edge browsers will be distorted when played back. Workaround Until this issue… Read more » about Issue: Turnitin voice comments
The Brightspace Pulse mobile app is designed to specifically provide access to unit Content, Notifications, Grades and Brightspace calendar events (assignment deadline etc…). Other items that are linked from the Brightspace Homepage navigation bars and unit navigation bars are not directly available from the app. This has been an area that staff and students have… Read more » about Accessing Reading Lists from the Brightspace Pulse app
