• e-portfolios for teaching and learning

    What is an e-portfolio?   An e-portfolio is a digital presentation of student learning experiences and/or evidence of learning achievements, across a single or multiple modules, projects or an entire programme. The digital presentation of student learning experiences and achievements may include: Written or audio-recorded reflections Evidence of attainment, such…

  • Tools for Learning Activities: Blackboard Activities – Journals

    The information in this article is correct at the time of writing, please check our TEL Blog for the latest information on Technology at the University of Reading. Blackboard journals are individual private areas that provide a discrete space for students to post content which can be viewed or graded…

  • Blackboard Blogs and Journals

    What are Blogs and Journals? A Blog is a simple web-publishing tool that allows users to make entries to a web page that are displayed in date order. These entries, known as posts, are made up of textual content with weblinks, and they can combine pictures, video and audio. You…

  • Blackboard Blogs, Journals and Wikis: editing settings applied by EMA Integration

    Settings applied by the EMA Integration Change for 2021/22: the integration will now create a Weighted Total Column, rather than a Blackboard Blog, Journal or Wiki If you are managing a module where assessment is delivered via a Blackboard Blog, Blackboard Journal or Blackboard Wiki The programme administrator will set this up…

  • EMA Integration: Blackboard Journals

    This guide is relevant to the following Mode of Submission: Blackboard Journal Integration creates a Weighted Total Column in the Grade Centre. This can be mapped to the Grade Centre column for any assessed journals on the course. Steps in managing an assessed Journal Create the Journal Edit the Journal…