Welcome to the TELT Gateway
The TELT Platform
TELT, or Technology Enabled Learning and Teaching, is the suite of technologies and applications that support learning and teaching at UNSW. The TELT platform is gradually being developed and each application that is added will be regularly reviewed to assess its ongoing suitability to meet the learning and teaching needs of the University.
TELT Gateway is the central access point for all the applications currently available on the platform with login links or instructions on how to sign up for each service. Training resources and support information to help users is also linked to this Gateway.
- UNSW Blackboard
Blackboard is a Learning Management System (LMS) that supports learning by extending the face-to-face learning environment to online learning spaces and providing virtual classrooms for distance learning courses. - My eLearning VISTA
My eLearning Vista is a Learning Management System that is being phased out during 2010. It may be used for a small number of courses in first semester 2010 but most courses will run on UNSW Blackboard. Lecturers will advise their classes if a course is still using My eLearning Vista.• Login to My eLearning Vista • Go to My eLearning Vista Support
- eLIMS
The eLearning Information Management System (eLIMS) is an application that interfaces between NSS (Student Services) and My eLearning Vista. eLIMS enables UNSW staff to configure their My eLearning Vista learning contexts and enrolments.
Lectopia
Lectopia provides automated digital recording of lectures that can be accessed via streaming media or podcasting.• Login to Lectopia self service tool • Go to Lectopia support
- Turnitin
Turnitin is a service used to identify and prevent plagiarism. It can be used as a tool to check the originality of papers and citation practices in students' work after final submission, or be made accessible to students and allow for checking before final submission of assignments, to help in preventing the submission of plagiarised material.
- Maple T.A.
Maple T.A. supports complex, free-form entry and intelligent evaluation of responses, specifically targeting the requirements for teaching math and science courses. Maple T.A can perform mathematical calculations that may be required in order to evaluate a student response to a mathematical question. - Respondus
Respondus is an offline tool (downloadable software, Windows only) for creating and managing quizzes and surveys that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard. It can also be used to move quizzes and surveys from one Learning Management System to another.• Software Download & User Instructions available soon
- Moodle
Moodle is a Learning Management System that enables creation of collaborative learning environments modelled on social constructionist pedagogy. It is being piloted during 2010 with a view to being offered alongside Blackboard.
- WordPress
The UNSW Blogs platform as been established to provide a space for collaboration and communication. WordPress is being piloted with a number of special tools and features installed, including custom UNSW Themes and a wide selection of widgets and plugins.
- Wikispaces & MediaWiki
Wikis enable collaborative web site creation and knowledge building. During 2009 a pilot and evaluation is being conducted of Wikispaces and MediaWiki.
- Wimba Voice
Wimba Voice incorporates the use of threaded voice boards, voice-enabled email, embedded voice within LMS course pages, as well as live group discussions and debates, which increase the interaction and student engagement level of any online course. - Wimba Pronto
Wimba Pronto is an instant messaging system designed especially for education. It enables students and teachers to collaborate and learn in an informal “virtual venue,” replicating the exchange of ideas and communication that happens naturally in a physical campus. - Wimba Create
Wimba Create quickly and easily converts a Microsoft Word document into content for an online course. From one Word document it can generate a set of web pages that include navigation and interactive features that are easily uploaded into a course in an LMS.
- Wimba Classroom
Wimba Classroom provides a live, virtual classroom environment with audio, video, application sharing and content display, and MP4 capabilities. Wimba Classroom is being piloted during 2010 in a comparison of virtual meeting room software. - Adobe Connect Pro
Adobe Connect Pro provides Flash enabled virtual conferencing spaces with the use of video, audio, and interactivity to create an almost in-person experience for students. Sessions can be recorded and replayed or pre-recorded for asynchronous delivery. Adobe Connect Pro is being piloted during 2010 in a comparison of virtual meeting room software.
- Questionmark Perception
The Questionmark Perception assessment management system enables educators to author, schedule, deliver, and report on surveys, quizzes, tests and exams. It will be evaluated in 2010 for suitability as an enterprise solution.
- Echo360
Echo360 is the next generation of the Lectopia lecture capture system, and will be evaluated in 2010 for potential replacement of Lectopia in 2011.
- Calibrated Peer Review & iPeer are tools that provide both group peer review and individual calibrated peer assessment. They will be evaluated in 2010.
- Applications that enable display of visual images and support design based disciplines will be explored in 2010.