Looking forward to our CPD session today exploring the Jisc Discovery Tool, a tool available to all Man Met staff and students to self-assess and reflect on your existing digital skills, and which signposts further resources to continue upskilling. Man Met colleagues, sign-up is via the intranet.

For Man Met colleagues, CPD sessions this week from our central team include 'Keep it clean! Sharing Legal and Accessible resources' and 'Moodle baseline workshop' (both on Weds 17th), and 'Let's Explore: Adobe Express' on Thurs 18th. Sign up is via the events on the intranet page.

This should be a useful group for colleagues in Professional Services.

The team will be providing an overview of the Moodle Baseline tomorrow, 9th September, at 11am. Participants will be guided through the key elements of the baseline itself, quick wins for implementation, supportive materials and the opportunity to ask questions. Please via the event on the intranet.

Welcome back to all our Man Met colleagues! We're starting off our CPD sessions for the year with an overview of our DELTA (Digitally Enhanced Learning, Teaching and Assessment) strategy. Tomorrow, Thursday 4th September, at 11am. Please check the intranet to register for the Teams link.

The Digital Education team are running a 'summer school' for Man Met colleagues until 24th July. This is a compressed schedule of our sessions and workshops via a Hyflex approach. See our Digital Education intranet page CPD and Workshops for more details.

Next at #McrMetL&TConf25 David Yarwood presented rationale for embedding Adobe Express for portfolio development (industry-standard, supports visual storytelling, enables personalised outputs). Students Katherine Hornsey & Abigail Tait articulated benefits of Express for developing digital skills.

Great post from @catbeelearny.bsky.social on how longitudinal skills portfolios can enhance student employability. Lots of thinking going on in this space currently at Manchester Met, as we have a range of tools that can support portfolio development, including Padlet, Miro and Adobe Express.

Alicia & Andrew from DigiEd ran a roundtable discussion #McrMetL&TConf25 on Supporting Digital Skills Development through Embedding Adobe Express within our Curricula - with senior lecturers Jason Taylor, Clare Calveley & Allie Johns, and wonderful PG students Jake Vizard and Margarida Vasconcelos.

Colleague David Yarwood and students presenting a great example of using Adobe Express for portfolio development. Man Met colleagues interested in making use of Express to enhance learning, teaching and assessment, please get in touch with one of the Digital Education team.

Reflections on relational pedagogy from Innovation Scholars at #McrMetL&TConf25. Rod Cullen argues for empathising with students (many caring, working, commuting, digital poverty, disabilities), & need to support through accessibility, flexibility and authentic assessment (key to our DELTA strategy)

Adobe have shared another use case for Adobe Express, this time from Senior Lecturer Allie Johns. She has used Express with her students to create Storyboards & Empathy Canvas Maps, seeing improved student outcomes and satisfaction. Thanks Allie! ukcreativecampus.myportfolio.com/storyboards-...

Tomorrow, 5th June, 11-12, Phil Sayer and @stuparkin.bsky.social are running an interactive session on Practical Tips for Creating Accessible Learning. Man Met colleagues, please register via the events intranet page.

Webinar next week from LinkedIn (28th May, 11:00-12:30 UK time) that could be of interest to staff and students at Man Met on Standing Out with AI in the Job Market (upskill with LinkedIn Learning, make profile stand out to recruiters, attract top employers). linkedinstudentsuccess.splashthat.com

In hashtags, it helps if each new word starts with a capital letter. Otherwise, sighted users could see a string of letters and not immediately know where one word ends and a new word begins. Capitalized words also help screen readers properly read out the hashtag.

Today (15th May) is Global Accessibility Awareness Day and a good opportunity to signpost Manchester Met colleagues to our team's revised Digital Accessibility and Inclusion guidance area on our intranet pages. Many thanks to @stuparkin.bsky.social and Phil Sayer in the team for their work on this.

Alicia, Jack & Steven (DigiEd), & @drlittle26.bsky.social from @manmetuta.bsky.social enjoyed presenting the LEED approach to 'empowering staff to embrace Generative AI responsibly through discourse and exploration' at #udigcap Ucisa Spotlight25 conference today. Thank you for all the engagement!

A great Digital Me session this week w/ Joanna Bodley on "IAB UK - Working with an industry body to equip students with practitioner-level digital skills and increase employability". Student Digital Guides Parth Solanki and Ismaeel Ahmed gave us their views on digital skills students want and need.

Last call for colleagues at Manchester Met to join our online session today at 11am, on Re-Thinking your Marking Workflow - useful tips ahead of marking season and some marking best practices.

Simplifying content and using a consistent, simple design will help your users avoid cognitive overload, stress, and mental fatigue.

Man Met is an Adobe Creative Campus, meaning all staff and students have access to Adobe Express. Great to see a use case for embedding Adobe Express in the curriculum from our colleague Clare Calveley, supporting students with their career learning: ukcreativecampus.myportfolio.com/linkedin-car...

Last week we had our regular DELTA leads meeting, brilliantly organised by @dpresc.bsky.social. We were able to present our updated CPD offer, highlighting the alignment of our workshops to key themes of the DELTA strategy, and linking to the Advance HE PSF and the Jisc HE Digi Cap Teacher Profile.

You can also look at videos from Mentimeter themselves demonstrating how to use the plug-in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA40...

Man Met colleagues, exciting news! The PowerPoint plug-in is now available for Menti. Please watch Andy's video on enabling the plugin. Any issues, get in touch with one of the Digital Education team. mmutube.mmu.ac.uk/media/t/1_83...

Man Met colleagues, tomorrow, 19th March, Dee Vyas and Emily Webb from the DigiEd team are running a session on Active Engagement and Partnership, face-to-face at 12pm. To sign up, visit the intranet page: mmuintranet.mmu.ac.uk/Interact/Pag...

Members of the Digital Education team were at #Digifest25 last week representing the team, and @profjanetlord.bsky.social was part of a panel discussion, and talked about our DELTA strategy, support from our team and from our DELTA leads.

Opinion piece outlining the Man Met approach to Generative AI from PVC Education Andy Dainty, and LEED colleagues @leannefitton.bsky.social and Prof. Fiona Saunders - all about 'embracing AI responsibly'. www.lifelongeducation.uk/post/generat...

Useful thread of tips on getting your alt text right.

Useful overview for our colleagues with Kahoot licences.

I worked with the Dept Ed Lead from Manchester Fashion Institute & pals from @manmetdigied.bsky.social to provide guidance around constructive alignment & effective rubrics this week! Both can be a challenge in creative disciplines so it's vital that context insights shape our conversations💐

Save the date: Tuesday, 6–Friday, 9 May - another round of Adobe Education Institute (AEI), for HE staff at Adobe Creative Campuses, focussed on Adobe Express. It's a series of live, hands-on sessions, to discover ways to simplify workflows, and foster student engagement and multi-modal teaching.

A reminder that Manchester Met is now an Adobe Creative Campus. Man Met colleagues who are interested in learning more, please contact one of our team, and also sign up to the Creative Campus Newsletter - it's usually full of ideas and CPD opportunities www.hed.adobecreativepartner-edu.com/subscribe

At the Digital Me session this week, Dr. Rod Cullen explored how assessment spans our DELTA Learning Spaces Framework, with most coursework taking place in informal and virtual learning spaces, so our institutional principles of digital flexibility should inform our approach to supporting students.

A reminder about how best to manage your hashtags - start each new word with a capital letter.

And a call for contributions to the Manchester Met Active Learning Spectrum. Man Met colleagues, if you have experience of active learning approaches within your teaching, @stuparkin.bsky.social and Jack Sutherst in the Digital Education team would love to speak to you.

Really helpful overview of the Associate Innovation Scholar scheme at Manchester Met 2025-26 from @manmetuta.bsky.social. Great to hear from our team member Stuart Parkin @stuparkin.bsky.social reflecting on his role as an Associate Scholar 2024-25, working on the Man Met Active Learning Spectrum.

Would you like to know about the approach that @manmetuni.bsky.social is taking to embed the UN Sustainable Development Goals and education for sustainable development in curricula - this recently published article tells you about it: buff.ly/42wZQqG

Also this week, for Man Met colleagues, on Thursday 6th Feb and online, 1-1.45, Phil Sayer and Stu Parkin @stuparkin.bsky.social are providing an Accessibility Overview, outlining its importance in creating an inclusive learning environment for all students. mmuintranet.mmu.ac.uk/Interact/Pag...

Man Met colleagues - we have a Miro for Active Learning Masterclass taking place this week on Wednesday, 12 to 1 in person and on campus with Dee and Emily from the Digital Education team. Register for the event: mmuintranet.mmu.ac.uk/Interact/Pag...

@owenmarie.bsky.social and Andrew Larner from the Digital Education team enjoyed attending this second Jisc Adobe Transforming Together session last week. Many thanks to @cbthomson.bsky.social, Zac Gribble and @catbeelearny.bsky.social. Great to share ideas with colleagues from other institutions.

Jisc's @mwebb.bsky.social initial top level advice on #Deepseek nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/01/2... #AIEd

This looks like an interesting webinar for colleagues interested in learning design and change management.

@ManMetUTA are very pleased that UUK have published work done at Manchester Metropolitan University on Academic Freedom - https://buff.ly/4fna7J0 - as a case study - https://buff.ly/3ZygjYK

Good news for Man Met members of staff! On Friday 25th April there will be an Adobe Creative Campus Community Connect event, hosted by Adobe on the Man Met campus. This will be a great opportunity to connect with peers and share best practice. To sign up: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/PGCr...

Many thanks to Adobe's Louise Hopkins, who attended our recent DELTA Leads meeting, helping us to think through integrating the capabilities of Adobe Creative Campus within our curricula at Manchester Met. For more support with this, contact your DELTA lead or faculty Digital Education Specialists.

Wednesday saw our Departmental DELTA leads and Digital Education Specialists meet to share, learn and lead our Digitally Enhanced Learning, Teaching and Assessment (DELTA) strategy. Peter Wolfstencroft and Debbie Prescott hosted, whilst Jack Sutherst presented our updated plans for our CPD offer.