The group held its first meeting online using Blackboard
Collaborate on Friday 14th March.
There was some interest from the students, after a tour of
Blackboard Collaborate, to be able to use it themselves with other students and
we should explore this further – perhaps Blackboard Collaborate could be used
to hold certain student led events?
We spoke about some work that the Joint Information Systems
Committee (JISC) has been doing across the UK with groups of students from
across the sector to try to build a picture of what students are likely to want
from the digital environment at universities in 2020. A summary of the JISC findings to date is available here.
The group had also helped test out a crowd sourcing tool
called Waggl and all felt that this kind of online tools could be very useful
in gaining wider student input into any proposal for change that the university
was looking at.
We briefly discussed the work to re-design the front end of
the Blackboard system (login page and signed in page) – this work is ongoing
and the web designer should have some mock-ups which we can look at soon.
