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Learning Central
What’s New Summer 2010
for Cardiff University’sVirtual Learning Environment
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Learning Central
Changes
• A new name: “Learning Central”
• An improved interface
• New features
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Learning Central
Changes
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Learning Central
Continuity
• All your existing courses roll over as usual
• All major features still available• The familiar structure of modules is
retained• The terminology used to describe
features is consistent
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Learning Central
Improved Interface
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Learning Central
Drag and Drop: Portlets
Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWBnoFeDlJo
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Learning Central
Drag and Drop: Content Items
Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ne6wGN28iho
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Learning Central
Drag and Drop: Menu Items
Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=MRq61CXQjBs
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Learning Central
The Chevron
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Contextual Menus
• Are available wherever you see the chevron
• Allow you to act on an item directly• Mean fewer clicks and less waiting
for pages to load
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Learning Central
Contextual Menus
Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ7VIbOkb-0
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Learning Central
Add Items in Edit Mode
Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Y03o-4oBY
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Learning Central
The Control Panel• Is smaller
(contextual menus replace much of it)
• Is always visible on screen to instructors, so all items are two clicks away!
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Learning Central
The Control Panel
Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=qgTzVRbZ4sQ
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Learning Central
New Features
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Improved Blogs and Wikis: Tags
Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=aiCDUGePDUs
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Improved Blogs and Wikis: Feeds
• Activity Feedso Site feeds show
what has been updated
o Group feeds show what people have been working on
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Learning CentralImproved Blogs & Wikis:
Side by Side Version Comparison
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Learning Central
Integrated Voice Recording
Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxCNkldArqw
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Integrated Voice Recording
• Post audio content• Send voice emails (eg. for audio
feedback)• Voice discussion boards• Simple podcasting
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Social Bookmarking• As you bookmark
pages with Scholar, tag them and drop them into courses
• Students can tag and share bookmarks too
• Add a “stream” of tagged bookmarks to a module
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Flickr, Slideshare & Youtube
Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Mny1jiG14
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Other New Features
• Portlets pages with selectable portlets, for announcements, what’s new, do-dos, etc.
• Notification management options for students
• Question pools for reusing assessment questions
• Better group management
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Learning CentralMore Help in the Staff Help
Tab
• This presentation• Side by side comparison for common
tasks• Updated help guides• Quickstart videos• Links to video tutorials
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