Practical, hands-on workshops in teaching and learning technologies are offered to help staff prepare their courses each semester. In September, workshops were conducted with 44 participants attending. This year to date, 123 staff workshops have been run with a total of 1,327 attendances. Since 2012, there has been a total of 13,763 staff workshop attendances.

Workshops delivered from Jan to September 2025

Graph of workshops attendances from Jan to September 2025

Top 10 eLearning guides 

The following list includes the 10 most viewed eLearning staff guides this month:

  1. Access Inspera (Original) (1,749 views)
  2. Create a Grade Schema (1-7 grades) (Original) (701 views)
  3. Control the release of results (Ultra) (701 views)
  4. Gradebook (Ultra) (321 views)
  5. Apply late penalties in Gradescope (Original) (219 views)
  6. UQpoll - UQ (Original) (215 views)
  7. What is an ePortfolio? (Original) (190 views)
  8. Inspera Assessment (Ultra) (189 views)
  9. Turnitin (Ultra) (174 views)
  10. Create a Turnitin assignment (Ultra) (166 views)

The following list includes the 10 most viewed eLearning student guides this month:

  1. Submit a video assignment with EchoVideo (Ultra) (12,330 views)
  2. Safe Exam Browser for Inspera (Original) (8,208 views)
  3. Submit your Turnitin assignment (Ultra) (3,912 views)
  4. Submit a video assignment with EchoVideo (Original) (3,473 views)
  5. Inspera Assessment (Original) (3,195 views)
  6. Record video or audio through EchoVideo (Ultra) (2,836 views)
  7. Inspera Assessment (Original) (1,736 views)
  8. Assignment submission instructions (Ultra)(1,624 views)
  9. View Turnitin similarity report and marks (Ultra)(1,219 views)
  10. Record video assignments with Zoom (Ultra) (1,110 views)

Total webpage views: 84,002

Total webpage views for the previous month (August 2025): 83,738

September YouTube views: 1,128

YouTube views for previous month (August 2025): 1,331

eLearning Adviser Consultations

In September, eLearning advisers provided 102 appointments to help courses adopt eLearning technology. The eLearning Adviser Consultations to date in 2025 have catered for 360 Course Coordinators teaching into 469 courses which constitute approximately 12.8% of all courses in the university and servicing a total of 59,285 student experiences across the university. In total, the number of appointments equals 554. The top three most common individual tools implemented are Ultra Gradebook, Turnitin, and Ultra Assignment.  

Individual tools - Time implemented

Individual tools - Student benefited

ePortfolio usage

Usage in September

Usage this year to date

Assessments: 243119398
Files Uploaded: 273927771

eLearning Support - Requests and Trends

Chart of Support Request Categories from September 2023 to September 2025

Download Support Request Categories-202509.csv

The number of jobs for September 2025 increased by 55.5% when compared to September 2024 and increased by 56.5% when compared to September 2023 and increased by 12.9% when compared to August 2025.

Course Management jobs for September 2025 increased by 78.4% when compared with September 2024 and increased by 85.7% when compared with September 2023 and increased by 63.2% when compared with August 2025.

Tools & Other jobs for September 2025 increased by 22.4% when compared with September 2024 and increased by 14.2% when compared with September 2023 yet decreased by 37.5% when compared with August 2025.

The distribution of jobs were similarly divided amongst Course Management (59.24%) with Tools & Other (40.76%).

The Distribution of Jobs per Faculty

Chart of Total Jobs by Faculty for September 2025

RESPONSE TO SUPPORT REQUESTS FLAGGED AS URGENT BY CLIENTS

During September 2025 there were twenty (20) Urgent jobs. A breakdown of the Urgent jobs are as follows.
Blackboard Assignment Tool (3), Blackboard Grade Centre (3), Blackboard Tests (2), Blackboard Usage (2), ePortfolio (1), Inspera (6), Turnitin (3).

All Urgent requests were responded to within an hour.