1. UCL Digital Education Advisory
Digital Education Technology News November Download:
UCL Digital Education Advisory

2. Moodle upgrade 22nd July 2016 Notable changes:
New Turnitin Grading interface.
New Moodle Assignment Grading interface.
Improved inline commenting for PDF submissions (with re-usable comments).
Pinned forum posts.
Reconciled versions of Turnitin.

3. Turnitin GradeMark is now ‘Feedback Studio’
New Turnitin grading interface

4. Moodle Assignment grading interface update

5. Pinned discussion forum posts
Staff will be able to pin posts to the top of the discussion.
Check the ‘pinned’ checkbox when adding/editing a post.

6. UCL Media Central Available:
All UCL staff & students can host video and audio content.
"You Tube" style interface.
Embed videos into web pages, social media and Moodle.
Users can make their videos public, private, or just for UCL.
UCL decided that all videos are downloadable.
Available:
online since 17th May.
can be embedded in Moodle.
access via Moodle (coming soon…)
Moodle Assignment link will enable students to upload their videos directly (and privately) into MediaCentral.

7. MyFeedback report – launched Oct 2016
Helps students find and compare their digital feedback in UCL Moodle.
*Personal tutors can help students act upon their feedback. They can’t access courses unless they are granted tutor rights on that course.
#Module Tutors can see their student’s feedback (for any courses they teach) and whether students have viewed it.
Piloted by Engineering :
IEP 1st year and some School of Management students (>700).
Personal tutors of these students.
Tutors of these modules.
Available for all UCL staff and students October 2016:
*Personal Tutors see an overview, but need to be tutors on Moodle courses in order to see detailed feedback.
#Tutors only see the assessments in the courses they teach on.

8. MyFeedback report – Student view
1 Assessment summary table functions – reset, export or print the table.
2 Academic year filter – view previous years (coming soon).
3 Show/hide columns filter – show or hide the columns displayed in the table.
4 Column filters – filter each column for their respective values.

9. MyFeedback report – Student view
1-3: See previous slide…
4 General Feedback column – displays general feedback from tutors. Nb. Turnitin feedback needs to be manually pasted by students.
5 Self-reflective notes column – Students can add self-reflective notes to individual assignments; these are visible to Personal Tutors and Departmental Administrators.
6 Full feedback – Link to contextualised feedback – e.g. quiz question feedback, Assignment comments.
7 Viewed column – indicates the most recent date the student viewed their full feedback within the Moodle course.

10. MyFeedback report – My students tab
Allows Personal Tutors, Module Tutors and Departmental Admins to view and search for their students.
1 My students tab.
2 Personal tutor dashboard – Module Tutors and Departmental Admins will see their own dashboards instead / as well.
3 Show all students checklist – by default only your personal tutees appear. Other students display when you click this. checkbox
4 Entries filter – show more than 10 entries at once.
5 Search bar – search for students by name.

11. MyFeedback report – Personal Tutor view
1 View own dashboard – stop viewing a particular student.
2 Table functions – reset, export (to csv) or print the table.
3 Academic year filter – previous years (coming soon).
4 Show/hide columns filter.
5 General Feedback column .
6 Self-reflective notes column – Students can add self-reflective notes which are visible to Personal Tutors and Departmental Administrators.
7 Full feedback – links to full feedback in Moodle/Turnitin.
8 Viewed column – the most recent date the student iewed the full feedback in the Moodle course.

12. MyFeedback report – Personal Tutor view
1 Send mail button – send an (bcc) to all selected students.
2 Personal tutees / module names – each student is listed, with their module of study below their name. Clicking the module breakdown link shows the information for each Moodle course the student is enrolled on.
3 Personal tutor functions – link to Portico, print or export the table (to csv).
4 Show/hide columns filter – show or hide the columns displayed in the table.

13. MyFeedback report – Module Tutor view
1 Send mail button – send an (bcc) to all selected students.
2 Personal tutees / module names – each student is listed, with their module of study below their name. Clicking the module breakdown link shows the information for each Moodle course the student is enrolled on.
3 Personal tutor summary functions – link to Portico, print or export (to csv) the table.
4 Show/hide columns filter – show or hide the columns displayed in the table.

14. MyFeedback report – Departmental Admin view
1 Course level filters. Choose the top Moodle category (faculty), second level category (Department) and then choose a module.
2 Stats per assessment toggle (default). Clicking ‘Student breakdown’ shows statistics for each student for that assessment.
3 Stats per student toggle. Clicking ‘Assessment breakdown’ shows statistics for each student’s assessments.
4 Module tutor stats toggle – shows Module tutors for the administrator’s department.
5 Overall grade chart.
6 Table summary functions.

15. MyFeedback report – making feedback visible
Enter grades into the grade box for Moodle Assignments & Turnitin.
Use Moodle Assignment rubrics / marking guides rather than PDFs.
Upload marked files (with comments/tracked changes) into Moodle Assignments.
Provide detailed general feedback within quiz questions. Avoid only using the correct/incorrect feedback areas so everyone sees the answer.
Provide overall quiz feedback for different bands of grades, pointing students to view the feedback for each question in their attempt(s).
Grant extensions to Moodle Assignments & Quizzes in Moodle, so students with extensions don’t see their work marked as late in the report.
When uploading manual grade items directly into the Moodle Gradebook use one grade per assessment (not one grade per criteria) to avoid confusion. Consider using an offline Moodle Assignment with marking guide for detailed feedback.

16. UCL E-Learning Baseline 2016
Merged with the one from the IoE:
Baseline for campus-based modules.
Baseline+ for wholly-online courses.
Booklets have been distributed to all E-Learning Champions.
See ‘What’s new?’, to quickly view what has changed since the last 2013 Baseline.
Use the Excel review template to check your courses.
Further copies can be sent to departments on request.

17. Arena Blended Connected workshops
90 minute workshop for programme and module teaching teams.
Storyboard learning activities to meet a module’s learning outcomes.
Relate activities, technologies and learning types.
Leave with a plan.
Helpful at planning / review stage.
Information at

18. New UCL Moodle Resource Centre layout
UCL Moodle Help is being streamlined:
simpler, so easier to understand;
more pedagogical information;
links to case studies and examples;
includes embedded videos (where available);
links to detailed information on moodle.org.
Why?
Staff can quickly read the basics about how to use and set up each function.
Easier to maintain, since the detail is being moved to moodle.org, which is a wiki maintained by a world-wide network of Moodle users.

19. Online resources Box of Broadcasts - bobnational.net
Watch broadcast programmes from 60+ TV and radio channels
currently at over 1 million programmes
Lynda.com - bit.ly/ucl_lynda
online resources to help you and your students improve your software, technology, business and creative skills
UCL has an initial 12 month trial
Khan Academy -
Learn for free about maths, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history and more

20. Issues

21. Turnitin issues
Why are students sometimes getting receipts from Turnitin when they haven't submitted anything?
When tutors click the grade pencil icon next to a student's name in a Turnitin inbox when they haven't submitted anything, the student receives a 'digital receipt' with a paper ID.
This is because Turnitin now supports marking offline assignments, so it is generating paper IDs when nothing has been submitted.
Turnitin Rubrics aren’t available until students submit.
Turnitin v2 should enable students to see the grading criteria (rubric or grading form) before they submit, so they know what they will be marked on.
Turnitin are aware of both issues. Digital Education Services are waiting for resolutions.

22. Questions? Moodle and Lecturecast Training E-Learning Support
Single Training Booking System
E-Learning Support
Moodle Resource Centre
from the Moodle Staff Help menu
Digital Education Services / Service Desk
(25000)

23. Education Domain - 2015/16 Teaching Space upgrades Student computers
Laptop loans
E-Learning Integration
UCL Desktop applications
Lecturecast Upgrdes, Maintenance and Procurement
Intelligent Lockers
UCLGo
Moodle
Connected Learning Environment
Opinio replacement
MediaCentral
ISD Media Studio Infrastructure
ABC Toolkit
Student Innovations
UCLeXtend
CRAM - Course Resourcing and Costing Modeller
Atempo Review

24. Education Domain /17
PCs for Students 2016/17
Teaching Spaces Upgrades 2016/17
Lecture Capture Tender and Rollout
Digital Media Lab
Teaching & learning spaces wifi expansion
Moodle maintenance and development
Upgrade UCLeXtend and essential patches
E-Learning Integrations
CLE: Selecting and piloting a platform for UCL Together
CLE: Establish a universal blogging service for UCL
Developing a stable Learning Designer service
Explore the potential for using learning analytics at UCL
Desktop Application Packaging 2016/2017 Education
Educational Media Infrastructure (Updating and Decommissioning)
ChangeMakers Programme
To recap, each year there is a capital budget available to fund projects that fall under the remit of the Education domain.
The Education Information Services Governance Group, chaired by Anthony Smith, approves the final selection of projects.
The final portfolio is yet to be approved by the Information Service Governance Committee (ISGC), where the other functional domains will also present their plans.
It is also subject to review in the year. Priorities change and unanticipated requirements arise. Next meeting is 18th Oct.
We have a list of the projects here, to give you a preview of what might be coming in 2016/17. Some are reoccurring and routine. Others are probably of greater interest.