Digital Education is a dynamic portfolio of teams within Education Futures that form the nucleus of online learning at UNE and drive the design and delivery of high-quality learning and teaching.
Academic Development
Academic Integrity
Digital Landscapes
Exams and eAssessment
Learning Design
Learning Media
Co-design for new ways of working
Redesigning business processes and the ways that we work can be a challenge. DigEd and Integrated Services recently hosted a co-design workshop bringing stakeholders across the university together to begin collaboratively working towards developing new procedures and practices for Special Assessment at UNE.
Webinar: Students as Co-Creators. Monday, 4th April
Co-creation and active learner involvement in the design and development of education are gaining momentum in educational practice and research. Pebblepad (our ePortfolio platform) is hosting a webinar on the 4th of April focusing on co-creation and...
Video: Small data and ‘person-alisation’ – how relationships and engagement drive learning analytics at the University of Sydney
We have the pleasure of inviting you to our first In Focus Seminar for 2022. Complementing the Academic Development Webinar series, the In Focus Seminar Series explores new and emerging topics of interest in learning and teaching. To kick off the series...
3D light scans out-shines photogrammetry in the digitisation process.
What is 3D digitising? What is photogrammetry or light-based scanning? Which is best to start with? Read through this post and see some examples that UNE are currently using.
Tips: Spring cleaning your tutorial recordings & unit readings
As we approach the first week of teaching, it’s a great time to consider where you’ll store your Zoom recordings and relevant unit readings. Echo360 & Reading List, respectively, provide easy and accessible solutions to this – lets look at these...
Media Space Upgrade – Coming Soon
UPDATE: The spaces have now been completed and are production ready! See the latest post about the media spaces here. We’re nearly there - in partnership with the AV team, the Learning Media studios have been going through an upgrade! We boast a new...
Möbius upgrade – Thursday, 24th February (6am-8am)
There will be an upgrade to Möbius 2022.0 occurring on Thursday, 24th February 2022 between 6AM-8AM AEDT. There may be a downtime of at least 30 minutes during this time period in which you will be unable to access Möbius materials. Users may lose...
New, consistent look for Moodle sites in T1, 2022
If you’re a Unit Coordinator in Trimester 1 2022, you may notice that a few things look different when you access your Moodle site. As part of the university’s strategy to provide a high-quality learning experience and develop efficient, sustainable...
Call for interest: CMALT accreditation
As part of UNE's institutional membership to ASCILITE, we have access to the Association for Learning Technology's CMALT accreditation program. ALT is a leading professional body for Learning Technology in the UK, who provide a collaborative community...
OLX Year in Review: 2021
2021 was a significant year for online exams (OLX) at UNE, representing the first year of OLX as our standard business practice. We also saw Time for Change bring the Exams and eAssessment team into the Digital Education portfolio, alongside the...
LMS Renewal: Invitation to Contribute
As part of the LMS Renewal project, we are now starting to plan the content transition and uplift phase to enable adoption of a new or improved Learning Management System for late 2023. To help design a process that best fits UNE, we are inviting staff...
The OLX Experience #2 – Understanding Privacy
The OLX Experience is a new series of posts designed to help shed light on aspects of online examinations and facilitate a strong shared understanding of OLX at UNE. This post focuses on privacy and data integrity in OLX.
LMS Testing – last chance to sign up
The sign-up survey for LMS testing closes on Sunday. If you are interested in taking part, take a look at our previous blog post for more details and complete the sign-up survey to register your interest. We'll be in touch early next week with the...
T1 Info: Site Contacts block in Moodle
As Trimester 1 gets closer, it is a good time to make sure the Site Contacts block in your teaching units are accurate and contain the contacts details you need. Since T3/2021, every teaching unit should contain an automated Site Contacts block located...
Invitation to join ASCILITE
We are pleased to announce that UNE has recently upgraded its membership to ASCILITE to a three-year unlimited membership, which means that membership is now open to all staff at UNE. By joining ASCILITE, you become a member of one of Australasia’s most...
FEATURE: Zoom <-> Echo integration
A T1 reminder that you have the option to OPT IN to an automatic copy of Zoom recordings into your Echo360 library. This will automatically copy all Zoom recordings to your Echo library from where you can share them with a unit playlist or embed them as...
COURSE: Introduction to Teaching at UNE (Starts Monday 14th February)
This teaching induction course provides key introductory learning and teaching concepts and strategies for those who are in their first few years of university teaching, new to UNE, new to teaching online or simply if you want to brush up on your...
“Past Exam Papers” Moodle site will be phased out at the end of T3
With the switch to online supervised exams, the “Past Exams Collections” Moodle site which contains copies of older paper exams for some units is becoming increasingly obsolete. We will phase out the collection and make it unavailable to students...
WEBINAR – Monday, 7th February : “Kicking the tyres – getting ready for the start of Trimester One”
We have a big year of Academic Development activities planned for 2022 with the re-commencement of the Academic Development Webinar Series, the In Focus Seminar series, one-off events and of course, the UNE Learning and Teaching Symposium. The first...
LMS Review – how to get involved
Update: The sign-up link for LMS testing for staff and students who would like to be involved in the testing process is now live at https://unesurveys.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cU3gT4qNl5X8eGy The recording of the info session is available at...
UNE wall calendars available now
The 2022 UNE Wall Calendars are now available. DigEd is happy to supply the much loved UNE wall calendars to the UNE community. They have been printed and are ready for collection in the C30 building. They are limited so please make sure you...
Moodle tile improvements for T1/2022
T1 will see some improvements to the way “tiles” are displayed on a unit homepage as well as the introduction of a new default set of tiles that will be consistent across all UNE units. Consistent Tile Icons To improve consistency across all university...
VIDEO: Present Presenter Presentation
If I had a dollar for every time, I’ve seen a PowerPoint presentation where everything is tiny, I could fund Australia’s budding space program. Have you witnessed a presenter blaming the application zoom for not being able to share their screen? Or...
Tip: Reasons why students can’t see their assignment feedback
Have you been contacted by a student who is having difficulty accessing grades or feedback for an assessment? There can be a few reasons for this. Read on for tips on what to check and how to advise your students! 1: Student is using...