On Tuesday 29th August, we will be upgrading QMplus. On this day QMplus will be unavailable for 24 hours from Tuesday 29th August, 12am (midnight) to Wednesday 30th August, 12am (midnight).
This is a change to our original plans to start the upgrade work at 8am on Tuesday 29th. Unfortunately, this late change of plan has been necessary due to issues uncovered during our pre-upgrade work. We apologise for the late notice of the change and any inconvenience that is caused by the extra 8 hours of downtime.
Just a reminder that the QMplus archives will be available as usual during this time. When attempting to access QMplus during the upgrade work, users will be presented with a splash page which will provide a link to the index page for the archives.
You can find out more on our QMplus upgrade page.
We held a few sessions to showcase some new features coming with the QMplus upgrade, scheduled for the 29th August.
If you were unable to attend one of those sessions, or just want a quick recap, then you can now watch this short video - a 5-minute whistle stop tour.
We will be upgrading QMplus Hub on 19th September 2023.
Existing users will notice some changes to the look and use of certain features, but the upgrade will not change the content of your existing portfolios.
Further information will be made available nearer to the upgrade.
As part of the QMplus upgrade to 4.1, the Assessment Information Block will be replaced by a new Assessment Panel, which is much simpler to use.
If you used the old block, then all of your content will be automatically transferred to the new panel.
Find out more over on the TELT pages.
We are advertising two new Learning Technologist roles. If you are interested, or know of anyone who may be, please select the links for further details:
If you have questions please contact Zaheer Daleel: z.daleel@qmul.ac.uk
In this article TELT Learning Technologist John Seamons explores the Page resource in QMplus.
In this article, Zaheer met with Atif Matin, E-Learning Officer in the Blizzard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science.
Head over to the TELT website to find out more about Atif and his work at QM
In June, we told you about the three student ambassadors who joined the Technology Enhanced Learning Team (TELT) to help revamp our student induction programme over the summer.
We are now preparing for the next phase of the project where our TEL student ambassadors will work with us to deliver our TELT induction sessions during welcome week. The TEL team have recruited 4 new ambassadors to join our induction delivery team.
Let's meet our newest student ambassadors.
As the new academic year looms over the horizon why not take some time to reacquaint yourself with Q-Review, Queen Mary’s lecture capture system. Q-Review uses Echo360’s product Echo360 and not only does it record lectures there are a whole range of features to enhance learning and analysis.
This article provides information about updates, training, and resources and can be found online on our TELT pages.
In September, we are running a number of Teaching Space Awareness sessions to demonstrate the technologies that academics and presenters will find in the QMUL Teaching rooms.
Please note that spaces are limited to 10 bookings per session, and each session will take place on a different campus. To book your place, please go to esdcourses.qmul.ac.uk and search course code TELT020.
Code
Title
Date
Time
Location
TELT001
Getting Started with QMplus
04/09/2023
10:00 - 12:00
Online
TELT016
Introduction to Blackboard Ally
06/09/2023
10:00 - 11:30
TELT012
An Introduction to QM's lecture capture system - Q-Review (based on Echo360)
11/09/2023
14:00 - 16:00
TELT020
Teaching Space Awareness
12/09/2023
14:00 - 15:30
Drapers LT
TELT014a
MS Teams in Teaching (interaction)
13/09/2023
19/09/2023
11:00 - 12:30
Perrin Lecture Theatre, W
20/09/2023
Morris LT
Willoughby Lecture Theatre
TBC
Lincolns Inn Fields
Online sessions will take place using Microsoft Teams. Those with a venue listed are to be conducted in-person.
For more information and to book yourself a space please visit our online course booking system and search for the course code listed above. A link to the session will be sent to you at least one day before the session is due to take place.
Q1: What are Question Banks?
A: Question Banks allows a teacher to create, preview, and edit questions in a database of question categories. You can read more information about them from Moodle's Question Bank page
Q2: I'd like to prepare my course for the next academic year, should I do a rollover or copy the course ?
A: If your course area is still in use by this academic year's students or staff marking, but you still wish to prepare the course for next year then it is best to copy the course. You can then update the new course information while others are still interacting with the previous version.
On the other hand, if you are certain all student / staff interaction on a course is complete then it can be rolled over. This is basically resetting the course page , therefore removing student data such as assessments and results, but excluding the teaching material. This method is usually made available after the archive of Qmplus is created during the summer. You will have access to the archived version of the course if needed.
For more details please see our Rollover Process Guide.
Q3: Can I access Turnitin directly, without the use of Qmplus?A: No, we do not provide direct access Turnitin accounts. To use Turnitin's plagiarism detection services, a submission point must be created on a Qmplus course page with Turnitin enabled for students to submit their work. Please see our guides below for more information.
We would like to give a shout out to TELT staff Gill Richie, Alysa Bramble and John Seamons involved in the recent QMplus Upgrade Awareness Session who have received positive feedback.Staff Development survey feedback:
TELT022 - QMplus Upgrade Awareness Session:
Feedback also received for the QMplus Administrators course:TELT017 - QMplus Administrators course (2023)
The Introduction to Mentimeter course was also very popular where positive feedback was received:TELT018 - An introduction to Mentimeter (Semester B 2022-23):