The E-Learning Team has worked with IT Services to produce a Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) resources start of session support pack.  This provides news and advice for academic and professional services staff on Lecture Recording, Vevox and Ally.

Adeola Olajide joined the E-Learning Team as Learning Technology Advisor.

Find out more about College's new online polling and survey tool.

• Vevox was rolled out ahead of the start of the academic year. 
• Vevox was integrated with Moodle and MS Teams on 22/11/2022

IT Services and the E-Learning Team upgraded the College Moodle service during July 21-23 2021.  The primary objective of this work was to ensure the continued security and stability of the service.  The upgrade - to version 3.10 of Moodle - also delivered a range of significant enhancements, which can be described in terms of accessibility, usability, engagement and assessment.

In addition to the upgrade, the Moodle service will be improved and extended by new tools, as requested by Schools and academic departments.  These will be rolled out throughout August and September 2021.

• Moodle 2021-22 is available for editing course for the forthcoming academic year
• Moodle 2020-21 Archive is available for January starts, PG courses, resits and resubmissions
• Find out more about the Moodle upgrade and new tools

1. The majority of Panopto recordings will not be rolled over automatically.
2. Manual intervention from staff members is needed to carry forward appropriate content.

Find out what do you need to do and how to do it

Royal Holloway, University of London continues to develop a broad portfolio of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), with five free online courses running this Summer. 

Find out more about our MOOCs

We are currently developing a course, Creating Audio Description: Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion, in whch learners will explore how to design and create audio descriptions and audio introductions that fully represent a film, play, or TV programme.

Find out more and enrol upon the Creating Audio Description course

Our Senior Learning Technologist, Martin King, was interviewed in a case study into the use of the Avoiding Plagiarism resource at Royal Holloway

Read the case study

IT Services and the E-Learning Team have rolled-out a new Moodle plug-in: Panopto Student Assignment.  This provides a single point at which multimedia assignments (videos, narrated PowerPoints, audio tracks) can be submitted, viewed, marked and managed.

Find out more about the Panopto Student Assignment plug-in