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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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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Drag and Drop: Portlets

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Drag and Drop: Content Items

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v=ne6wGN28iho

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Drag and Drop: Menu Items

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v=MRq61CXQjBs

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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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Contextual Menus

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Add Items in Edit Mode

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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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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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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

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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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