Learning Technology

The service pages for the University supported Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs): Learn and Moodle

Information about Assessment and Feedback tools to use within Learning and Teaching. Services include: Questionmark Perception, Turnitin, GradeMark, WebPA.

Put video at the heart of learning, teaching and public engagement by creating, uploading and editing video. Media Hopper Create is the easy way to make, share, and manage your media assets.

The University's lecture recording service is called Media Hopper Replay. It is available in most of our largest teaching spaces and is being rolled out to smaller teaching rooms over the coming year. By the start of the 2019/20 academic year, it will be available in around 400 teaching spaces.

Services which allow you and your students to communicate and collaborate which may be useful in a teaching and learning context. Services include: Blackboard Collaborate and SMS Text.

Digital portfolios are useful tools for providing feedback and gathering evidence of progress from learners. Discover how PebblePad, the digital portfolio platform of the University of Edinburgh, can help you to assess your students and provide feedback in an innovative way.

Top Hat is used to collect digital responses to questions from groups of students.

Explore ways for you to use blogging at the University of Edinburgh by learning more about our Academic Blogging Service.

Online survey and questionnaire tools for research, evaluation and planning activities.

The Learning, Teaching & Web Services directorate offers a range of workshops and fairs to target specific digital literacy skills aligned with supporting learning and teaching, and the student experience.

The University is investing in the use of learning analytics for course design, attainment, and improving the student experience.

Opportunities for professional development, including Certified Membership of the Association for Learning Technology (CMALT)