edShare@GCU

Thomson, Julie

edShare@GCU (Glasgow Caledonian University)

Operations Management 2017-18 Handbook - ALC

Session in week 1-2

Glasgow is one of the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities (100RC). Through membership of the 100RC Network, Glasgow has developed a resilience strategy, Our Resilient Glasgow (hyperlink), that acts as a roadmap to greater resilience looking further into the 21st century. The strategy was developed with reference to the four essential dimensions of urban resilience: health and wellbeing, economy and society, infrastructure and environment, and leadership and strategy. This short animation tells the story of the City’s resilience journey to date

Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH), .

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Resilient Glasgow 
 
Glasgow is a city of transformation; it has never stood still. 
 
Glasgow was one of the first cities in the world to experience 
the extraordinary opportunities provided by the industrial 
revolution. 
 
But Glasgow had to be resilient to the years of war, population 
loss and industrial decline that followed. 
 
As a result, Glaswegians have experienced long-lasting 
difficulties related to income, health and opportunity. 
 
Through the good times and the bad, the city and its people 
have responded and adapted, and in many ways grown 
stronger.  
 
This is what makes Glasgow resilient.  
 
  
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Today: 
• We are the most diverse population in Scotland. One in 
every seven people is from a minority ethnic background, 
with many new Glaswegians coming to our city to live – each 
bringing new skills, talents and ideas.  
• Each year we generate more money for the Scottish 
economy than any other city, making us Scotland’s economic 
powerhouse. 
• We have over three thousand five hundred hectares of 
quality green space, and over ninety public parks. 
• And Glasgow is home to Scotland’s largest student 
population.  
 
But we also have many challenges that test our ability to thrive 
and adapt on a day-to-day basis:  
• One in every eight adults has no formal qualifications. 
• Over half of all Glaswegians live very close to vacant and 
derelict land. 
• Violent crime rates are twice the national average. 
• Growing numbers of people are experiencing challenges 
associated with poverty and debt. 
• And there’s a big gap between those with the best health and 
those with the worst. 
 
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Resilience is the ability to adapt in the face of challenge and 
change. It involves both awareness and action. 
 
Resilience is not only dealing with the challenges of today but 
also means being ready for the challenges of the future. 
 
Some of the future we can predict:  
• The climate will change.  
• There will be more older people in our society.  
• And our buildings and infrastructure are ageing. 
 
We know that an unequal city will make these challenges more 
difficult. Many critical services will need to adapt. 
 
But what about the challenges that can’t be predicted? The 
skills and creativity of Glasgow’s citizens are needed to 
respond to challenges and find new solutions. 
 
Although it’s not always possible to predict which disruptions 
will come next, we can plan, learn, and invest wisely. We can 
make Glasgow a better place to live, not just in times of 
emergency, but every single day. 
 
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Glasgow is one of the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient 
Cities. This is helping Glasgow to build resilience to the 
physical, social and economic challenges that are a growing 
part of the 21st century. 
 
The resilience strategy has four pillars:  
The first is: Empowering Glaswegians  
 
As well as improving access for Glaswegians to high quality 
local services:  
• we’re working to understand what produces strong 
community leaders in Glasgow. We will use this knowledge 
to support the future growth of Glasgow’s community leaders 
and community development workers 
• we’re unlocking safe and neutral spaces for the community 
to network and come together, helping to prevent loneliness 
and social isolation 
• and we’re also promoting a culture of support and 
volunteering. We want people to be recognised for this 
important work and to help others to be part of what makes 
their city great. 
 
  
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The second pillar is: Unlocking neighbourhood solutions 
By working to improve Glasgow’s neighbourhoods, we are 
creating better access to quality spaces, making use of the high 
number of unused, vacant and derelict spaces across the city. 
This also makes our neighbourhoods safer.  
 
We want to create places where we can be active and connect 
with others. 
 
The third pillar is: Growing a fair economy  
Glasgow has already weathered massive economic change – 
we must be prepared for future challenges. 
 
Glaswegians are at the heart of the city’s success. We want to 
ensure that work is a route out of poverty and that all have the 
chance to gain employment and progress through employment. 
 
We want people who live in Glasgow to be able to come 
forward with exciting, innovative, smart and sustainable ideas – 
to make Glasgow a hot-bed of ideas exchange.  
  
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The fourth pillar is: Fostering civic participation  
Connecting Glaswegians to the decision making processes in 
the city so that we all have a voice, and shape how the city 
plans and develops.  
 
Engaged citizens are currently an untapped asset for building 
resilience. We are learning from the expertise of Glaswegian 
people and organisations to focus on resilience in the city’s way 
of doing business. 
 
We want to make sure that decisions are made closer to the 
communities that are affected by them, that people feel 
engaged, and hold our leaders to account. 
 
One way you can do this is by following the city’s resilience 
journey through the Understanding Glasgow website.  
 
How, in your experience, is the city is becoming a more resilient 
place?  
 


Resilient Glasgow.

In this section we introduce the concept of an equation and present techniques for solving different types of equations.  



We firstly look at the algebraic solution of linear equations in one variable before moving on to simultaneous linear equations and then quadratic equations.  In all cases a geometric interpretation is presented along with details on how to graph the relevant functions.  



At appropriate locations throughout the document links are provided to enable access to further resources at the Mathcentre and the Khan Academy websites

MacDonald, Calum

Scott, Leonard

Week 1 & 2: Solving Equations (Repackaged)

Step by step instructions on how to embed and link to various edShare content types

Kelt, Marion

Adding links and embed codes from edShare to GCULearn 
 
 
Congratulations! You have successfully added your item to edShare. Now you want to add links or 
embed codes to GCULearn. This document shows you how to add links to documents, presentations 
or multimedia items. 
If you added a multimedia item, remember it usually takes overnight to run all the processes and 
create the embed code. If the code does not appear the next day, then contact us at 
edshare@gcu.ac.uk and we will look into it. 
 
Adding a link 
Go to your edShare item’s page. If there is more than one file attached to the record, then highlight 
the item you wish to link. Documents (PDF or word) and presentations (PowerPoint) work slightly 
differently to multimedia files. Here is an example of a PDF file: 
• Highlight file 
• Right click the Download link and select copy link address.  
• You now have a link ready to add to GCULearn or a web page. 
 
 
 
• Sign in to GCULearn 
• Go to the appropriate place in your module, and click Create item (you can also use Create 
link, but usually you will want to add some instructions for your students). 
Adding links and embed codes from edShare to GCULearn 
 
 
 
• Highlight the text to be linked and click the hyperlink icon. 
 
 
 
• Paste the link into the link path box 
• Set target to open in new window 
• Click submit 
 
  
Adding links and embed codes from edShare to GCULearn 
 
 
Multimedia files 
 
 
• Go to your item in edShare and highlight the appropriate file (if there is more than one) 
• Go to the embed code displayed below the preview window 
• Highlight the URL between the two sets of inverted commas and copy it 
• Insert the link in GCULearn as outlined above 
 
Adding embed codes for multimedia files 
 
• Find your item in edShare 
• Look for the embed code displayed below the preview window 
• Click copy embed code button 
 
Adding links and embed codes from edShare to GCULearn 
 
 
• Sign in to GCULearn 
• Go to the appropriate screen in your module 
• Click create item 
• Click the grey HTML button and paste the embed code into the popup window 
• Click update 
• Add in the appropriate title information and click submit 
• The multimedia item will then display in a HTML5 player on your module page 
 


How to embed edShare items in web pages and GCULearn modules.

Quick overview guide to the Collaborate Ultra Interfac

MacNeill, Sheila

Getting Started With Collaborate Ultra – Part 2: Finding your way around the Ultra interface

The Collaborate Ultra Interface

 
The Session Menu





The Collaborate Menu

Sharing Content  

                                                                                                                



	Select this icon to view and participate in session text chat. Moderators can also set up private chats with selected individuals in the session.  	
	This is where you can view a list of all the participants in a session and if necessary change their permission e.g. make them a presenter so they can share content. 
	This is where you can adjust your video/audio settings, and add a profile picture 



More detailed information on all the tools is available here.[footnoteRef:1] [1:  https://help.blackboard.com/Collaborate/Ultra/Moderator/Get_Started] 








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Operations Management 2017-18 Handbook - ALC

Session in week 1-2

Resilient Glasgow.

Week 1 & 2: Solving Equations (Repackaged)

How to embed edShare items in web pages and GCULearn modules.

Getting Started with Collaborate Ultra: Finding your way around the interface

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