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Vevox new features

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:17:59 GMT

New 'AI quiz' feature
Vevox recently released an AI feature for creating up to 5 multiple choice quiz questions based on prompts you provide. This makes building your quiz quicker and easier, and can be particularly useful for introducing a new topic or testing students' prior knowledge of a subject. If you have never used Vevox before, this could be a way to get started. See the full AI quiz article for more information.
PowerPoint add-in feature
Vevox’s PowerPoint add-in is now available for Mac & PC. This allows integration of Vevox polls with PowerPoint, providing more seamless presentations. We are investigating application of this feature for ��TV users, so please look out for more news. Read more about the Vevox PowerPoint add-inLink opens in a new window.
We have received confirmation from Vevox that the existing Office 365 add-in will continue to be supported into 2024.

Scheduled Turnitin Maintenance August 12, 2023

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 07:02:59 GMT

Upcoming scheduled maintenance notice.

Moodle 'theme' changes

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 12:52:00 GMT

Moodle is getting a facelift in September 2022, watch this short video to see what the main changes will look like.

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CTE AT Newsletter- issue 1

Fri, 06 May 2022 14:07:40 GMT

Moodle unavailable 7th April 2020 07:00 - 08:00 am

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 08:32:35 GMT

Academic Technologies have informed me that Moodle will be unavailable on Tuesday 7th April from 07:00-08:00 am to allow our providers to perform an update to Moodle, to update plugins and to apply a number of fixes. The work is likely to take 15 minutes, however, Moodle itself will be unavailable for the full hour.

Moodle database scheduled upgrade

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 11:05:55 GMT

A change to the Moodle database has been scheduled for Tuesday 3^rd March from 07:00-09:00 am as part of ongoing work to improve the performance of Moodle.

Moodle essential maintenance

Mon, 09 Dec 2019 15:19:27 GMT

Moodle will be undergoing essential maintenance on Wednesday 11th December 6am-8am and may be unavailable for short periods during this time.

JISC digital experience insights survey results 2019

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 10:09:00 GMT

JISC are delighted to announce the launch of their Digital experience insights survey 2019: findings from teaching staff in UK further and higher education report. This report shares the outcomes and findings from the 2018-19 survey with data collected from 6,534 teaching staff from 61 different FE colleges, sixth form colleges and universities across the United Kingdom. Thank you to all those colleges, sixth form colleges and universities who participated in the survey.

Reminder: University House Data shutdown 9 & 10 December

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:56:37 GMT

To ensure the university is meeting statutory legal requirements, the Estates Team is required to carry out electrical testing on the University House Data Centre, plus other communications equipment rooms, this year. The mains power to the data centre, associated rooms and all cooling plants will have to be switched off whilst the work is carried out.

Vevox

Thu, 26 Sep 2019 07:37:17 GMT

Pilot of Vevox software to replace TurningPoint.