Following on from last years trial, we are keen to hire some more Student Caption Editors to work with us again starting in February 2023.

Student Caption Editors

We know that captions are incredibly popular with students and that many use them regularly. We use Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to generate captions on all Re/Play content. ASR is not perfect and does generate mistakes. The UoB Digital Education Office (DEO) are looking to recruit 16 Student Caption Editors to help correct captioning errors. Initially we are targeting teaching material from Law, Economics and Biochemistry as they traditionally have high numbers of student views. Candidates with other areas of study will be considered. To apply for this role, you need to be a current student at the University of Bristol. You’ll be working an average of 5 hours per week for a year.

• Student Caption Editor Applicant Pack.
• You can apply for this role using this form.
• The deadline for applying for this role will be 11th January
• Duration of contract: Fixed-term from the 8th February 2023 to 8th February 2024. Please note if you are a final year student your contract will finish in August 2023.

Have you got time to tell us about your experiences of digital teaching and learning within the University’s online environments?

Our Digital Insights survey is now open! Responses are anonymous but play a huge part in the development of our digital development. This year it’s more important than ever to have your say, as the University is looking at the Digital Learning Environment in order to make tangible improvements to your learning. The Jisc Digital Experience Insights Survey aids us in our work to continuously enhance the student experience. As well as looking at our own data, we will be able to compare our results with other education providers and benchmarking data across institutions. Find a link to complete the survey here, it takes ten minutes to complete: Digital Insights Survey.

Have you got some time to complete our Re/Play student survey?

Re/Play is the function inside Blackboard that lets you watch back your recorded lectures and other videos. You may also see the tool referred to as Mediasite. The University wants to better understand how students use Re/Play, what you find useful and what you find frustrating so they can make the system work better for you.

Please complete this five-minute survey by 5pm on Friday 18th of November and have your say!

You can find out more about Re/Play on our Student Essentials page.

If you are submitting using Turnitin don’t forget to download your digital receipt. If you used Turnitin in previous years please note that, due to the new version of Turnitin, the interface looks a little different this year and you will no longer receive an email receipt. Find out more information, including screenshots, on the Turnitin Transition 2022 page.

There has been an update to this issue in a post from 5th January 2023. Please refer to the up to date instructions in this new post.

You may have seen an issue with equations not displaying properly in some browsers when using Blackboard. This was resolved by Blackboard on the 6th October, however the DEO have recently received reports that a small number of users have continued to experience issues with equations they have previously viewed in their browsers. If an equation is not displaying properly for you, please clear your browser cache and cookies (using, for example, these instructions), then reload the page. This only needs to be done once on the device and browser being used, and can be done at any time (for example, in advance of taking a test which includes equations), after which the issue should not persist or recur.  

Following on from the great work of our Student Digital Champions, we are keen to hire some more students to work with us again starting in January 2023.

Student Digital Champion 

The UoB Digital Education Office (DEO) are looking for passionate students to work with us to ensure that all students can get the most out of their digital and blended learning experiences at Bristol. As a Student Digital Champion, you will be talking to students, course reps and staff members to hear what is or isn’t working in our online learning environments, and identify good practice in teaching and assessment. You will be working as a team, with the DEO and other Student Digital Champions, to identify and address key challenges the student body are facing when learning in an online, blended or hybrid environment, and then propose, pilot and implement practical solutions. In addition, you’ll be adding your own personal experiences and feedback to the work of the DEO, and helping us shape the work we do in real time. To apply for this role, you need to be a current student at the University of Bristol. You’ll be working an average of 3 hours per week spanning from January to December. 

You can read more about how our previous students have found the role in our past blog posts.

• Student Digital Champion Application Pack.
• You can apply for this role using this form.
• The deadline for applying for this role will be 30th October 2022.
• Duration of contract: Fixed-term from the 9th January 2023 to 22nd December 2023. Please note if you are a final year student your contract will finish in August 2023.