QMplus Upgrade & Migration: 13 July and 17 August We will be carrying out essential maintenance and upgrade work to the QMplus virtual learning environment on Tuesday 13 July and Tuesday 17 August, with QMplus unavailable whilst the work is being carried out. Each year, essential work is carried out on QMplus to add extra . . . Read the full article
QMplus April Release – New features and configuration changes There’s been lots of exciting developments to QMplus, along with issues fixed and configuration changes made, improving the functionality and accessibility. We’ve highlighted just a few in this video for you to take a look at. Blackboard Ally: New tool to enhance your learning . . . Read the full article
New Home: The ELU is now in IT Services! On 17 March 2021, following a period of consultation, the E-Learning Unit moved from Student and Academic Services to its new home in IT Services. Â Physically and virtually, even when we are all back on campus full-time, you will continue to find us in the same . . . Read the full article
If you’re a Mentimeter user, you might be interested to know about the groups feature available which allows you to share your presentations and themes with other Mentimeter users. Anyone with a Mentimeter account can create a group and add any other Mentimeter users to it. Once you have your group, you can share presentations . . . Read the full article
On Tuesday, 20th April 2021, between 9pm-11pm, we will be making some updates to QMplus to improve functionality. QMplus will experience some unavoidable disruption during this time but we will keep disruption to a minimum. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Items to be included in this update: Student permission changes on group forum . . . Read the full article
On Monday 15th March 2021, we will be introducing changes to our data retention policy for QMplus Media/Kaltura. From this date, owners of videos that are over 15 months old will receive an email informing them that they have 20 days before their videos are no longer editable. Please note that this change does not . . . Read the full article
New Feature! Q-Review/Echo360 polling and analytics There are a number of elearning solutions for adding polling questions to your videos, such as: QMplus Media/Kaltura, H5P interactive content or using Mentimeter in your virtual classroom sessions, etc., however the ability to export responses and analytics for polling questions was lacking. This functionality is now available for . . . Read the full article
