• International Day of Action for Academic Integrity Oct 16

    The ICAI (International Center for Academic Integrity) run an annual event, to help students understand what Academic Integrity is. It used to be the “Day of Action Against Contract Cheating” – though as many of us noted, “Contract cheating isn’t the only form of academic misconduct. This year the theme…

  • Fix Your Content Day – 2024

    Get help understanding your Ally reports, learn the fixes – and how to avoid errors in the first place.

  • What is the AI Design Assistant?

    Anthology have created a number of tools within Blackboard Ultra to support staff when they are creating content. The Design Assistant tools are built using Microsoft’s Responsible AI, and have developed their own Trustworthy AI approach, which is based on the EU AI Act, the OECD AI Principles and NIST AI Risk…

  • How to download a YuJa video

    What is it? These are instructions specifically for staff wanting to move video from YuJa to Panopto manually, during the time that the content is being migrated. What should I know? Most staff will NOT need to do this, as the content is being migrated What should I do? Download…

  • Staff Development

     The Educational Development team are able to run staff development workshops to support Schools with objectives linked to NSS action plans and areas for improvement identified in teaching and learning enhancement reports. These workshops will be open to all lecturers and staff in directorates involved in teaching.  Standard Workshops These…

  • Academic integrity

    Academic Integrity The University takes all forms of academic misconduct including collusion and plagiarism very seriously – you should ensure that you are familiar with all the information that the University makes available to you about academic integrity including plagiarism, commissioning, collusion and the use of generative artificial intelligence. Declaration…

  • Get your module ready

    Default structure of modules We have created module templates, to create a consistent experience for students, and to help you ensure that you’ll be able to meet all points of the Module Baseline It’s not, however, a straitjacket – we know that all disciplines, modules etc, have different requirements. The overall…

  • Staff Development 2023

     CTIL’s Digital Academy team will be running a series of staff development workshops to support Schools with objectives linked to NSS action plans and areas for improvement identified in teaching and learning enhancement reports. These workshops will be open to all lecturers and staff in directorates involved in teaching.  Workshops…

  • Focus On Accessibility 20 – 24 Feb

    During the Week beginning 20th Feb, we will be running a week of events to help support our teaching community develop their understanding around accessibility requirements and the skills to create more accessible content.

  • FocusOn Practice

    A bit of Background During the academic year 20-21, in CTIL we had discussed various ways to enable staff to share good practice. Trying to persuade people to write blog posts was challenging, staff often didn’t have the time. We knew, however, that many staff liked to talk about what…