{"id":21335,"date":"2019-06-26T09:46:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T09:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/ema\/?p=21335"},"modified":"2019-06-26T09:46:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T09:46:48","slug":"blackboard-catalyst-award-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/ema\/2019\/06\/26\/blackboard-catalyst-award-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard Catalyst Award and Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-21335\" class=\"panel-layout\">\n<div id=\"pg-21335-0\" class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\">\n<div id=\"pgc-21335-0-0\" class=\"panel-grid-cell\" data-weight=\"1\">\n<div id=\"panel-21335-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-image panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" data-style=\"{&quot;background_image_attachment&quot;:false,&quot;background_display&quot;:&quot;tile&quot;}\"><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-image so-widget-sow-image-default-8b5b6f678277\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"pg-21335-1\" class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\">\n<div id=\"pgc-21335-1-0\" class=\"panel-grid-cell\" data-weight=\"1\">\n<div id=\"panel-21335-1-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" data-style=\"{&quot;background_image_attachment&quot;:false,&quot;background_display&quot;:&quot;tile&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n<p>On Thursday 13<sup>th<\/sup> June, the EMA team was delighted to welcome colleagues from across a wide range of schools and functions to a celebration in the Senior Common Room.<\/p>\n\n<p>The event was organised to acknowledge the very significant successes of the Programme across all of our work streams from the delivery of submodular marks on RISIS, new reporting screens, institution wide transition towards online assessment, sector leading integration between Blackboard and RISIS, the development of a new Student Progress Dashboard and significant work to support change processes.<\/p>\n\n<p>These successes have been recognised externally through our position as a finalist in the e-Assessment Awards and, most recently, as winners of the Blackboard Catalyst Award for Optimising the Student Experience. 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Without the generous support, expertise, advice, time and encouragement of so many across the university we would not have been able to achieve so much. The Programme\u2019s success and the Blackboard Catalyst Award trophy belong to everyone who has participated so generously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday 13th June, the EMA team was delighted to welcome colleagues from across a wide range of schools and functions to a celebration in the Senior Common Room. 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