Use Panopto to record your lectures and classes while they happen or to record presentations at your desk
Four examples of the FET Blackboard module template in action
Watch a short video tour of a module site from your department to see how the FET module template can improve student and staff experience.
Programmatic Blackboard View
For information about the new Programmatic Blackboard view, please read on.
Technical support in the classroom
Knowing who to contact if you experience any technical difficulties in the classroom can save you considerable time and minimise any disruption to teaching.
Kaltura: Four essential ‘how to’ guides from the LIU
To help you get started with Kaltura this September, the LIU has produced a collection of videos and instructions covering four essential tasks.
FET Blackboard Programme Sites – Example (2018)
This is an example of a FET Blackboard programme site.
Kaltura submissions: What do I need to tell my students?
For staff who want students to submit a video recording as an assignment, here is some standard text that can be sent to the students.
Dewis tests v Blackboard tests: which one do I choose?
The first consideration would be the type of questions your test needs to have. Blackboard has a wider variety of question types and, depending on the subject matter of the test, this may be the deciding factor.
What is Dewis?
Have you come across references to Dewis and were unsure of what it is? Does the module you teach involve numeracy and maths?
Learning Technology workshop for academics
Experiment and learn in tailor-made learning technology workshops.
Panopto on a lectern PC routine
Following these tips should help your Panopto experience in the classroom go smoothly.
How Panopto can benefit our students – a personal story
Written by Danny Elvidge [Senior Lecturer in Building Physics and Services] I’ve fallen in love with Panopto since being trained up two years ago.
FET Blackboard Module Template 2018/19
The new FET Blackboard Module Template for 2018/19 is now available for you to apply to your new module runs.
Discussion Boards
When you first use discussion boards with your students, it is a good idea to give them some guidance around the etiquette of using these.
Tips for Distance Learning Delivery
The Learning Innovation Unit has pulled together some tips based on recent experience (2017) of supporting the delivery of postgraduate distance learning programmes
How to record student presentations – installing Kaltura ‘CaptureSpace Desktop Recorder’
Kaltura is the system UWE uses for storing and publishing videos on Blackboard but Kaltura can also be used by staff and students to make recordings, making it ideal for when you’d like students to record a presentation.
Getting ‘In the Zone’ on the St Fagans field trip, in rural Wales
(by Fabia Jeddere-Fisher) After some initial exuberance with the idea of using an app to lead the students round the outdoor museum, St Fagans;
Annotate slides while presenting PowerPoint slideshow
We are often asked for advice about annotating slides and pointing out things on slides during a lecture. This is often in connection with
Copyright-free images for use in teaching activities
There are websites that offer copyright-free images, but you still need to check the terms of use on each site, and on each image.
Using Collaborate Ultra for one-to-one sessions
The term ‘webinar’ is perhaps mostly associated with meeting with a group of people, however the technology used for webinars can also be used
In The Zone – a new app for field trips
Learning materials and tasks designed are delivered to students’ smartphones when (and only when) they physically visit locations specified beforehand by the lecturer.
Adding a Kaltura file to your Blackboard course
For students to be able to view your recording, you most likely want to add it to the relevant part of your Blackboard module or programme site.
Blackboard Programme Sites – guiding principles (2017)
These guiding principles are here to support Programme Leaders in setting up new programme sites or reviewing their existing programme,
How do I make a film for use in my teaching?
So you have an idea, process or concept that you want to get across to your students but it isn’t physically possible to demonstrate it in the classroom and just talking to them about it doesn’t do it justice…
Kaltura (desktop recording)
Upload, record, manage and deliver video and audio files. Enable students to take video quizzes and record and submit video assignments
Blackboard module run transitions
From main module run to the feedback run and resit run – this post highlights the key action points for module leaders.
Feedback Icons in Blackboard Collaborate webinars
Encouraging students to use the feedback icons not only keeps them engaged, it gives you feedback too
What is Technology Enhanced Learning?
This video helps to answer a common question
BB Student – an app for accessing Blackboard on mobile devices
Find out what students using a smartphone see on Blackboard
Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Experience (webinars)
Collaborate online in real time by synchronous text or voice chat
Using Polling in a Blackboard Collaborate Webinar
One way of making webinars more interactive, engaging and useful for learners is to use polling
FET Blackboard Module Template 2017/18
A review of the template for 2017/18 has been carried out by FET’s Learning and Teaching Student Experience Executive committee.
Free online micro-learning courses for busy educators
TELU is a collection of free online micro-learning courses (“Micro-Lessons”) designed to help busy educators use technology to support their teaching and learning.
CSCT: Shared Approaches to Learning & Teaching (SALT)
Computer Science and Creative Technologies department organised its first Shared Approaches to Learning & Teaching (SALT) session, with a focus on TEL
FET Blackboard Module Template 2016-17
FET’s Learning and Teaching Student Experience Executive committee agreed that there should be no major changes to the module template for 2016/17. Just to
Using Augmented Reality to teach Civil Engineering
Nick Simpson, part of the civil and environmental engineering cluster at UWE, has developed Augmented Reality (AR) models for use in the classroom
Interactive learning resources for equipment in labs and studios
Many courses in our faculty involve students using equipment in laboratories and studios – from simple scalpels to much more complex items.
Intelligent Construction Contracts and the Digital Age – a New Module in Development for 2017
This module will seek to define the issues arising from ICs and help educate the next generation of construction professionals
Flipped classroom approach used in Engineering, Design and Maths (EDM) department
Catherine Hobbs and Ben Drew have been using the flipped classroom approach in their teaching for several years now.
Programmatic View of Blackboard
The intention is to provide students with a more integrated student experience and cohort identity
Blended Learning Essentials – a free online course
This free online course is designed to help you understand the benefits of blended learning and how to make more effective use of technology to support your learners.
We won a Green Gown Award!
In 2015 the Learning Innovation Unit developed and delivered UWE’s first MOOC, called Our Green City – and we’ve just won an award for it
Using Lynda.com in your module
Lynda.com has dozens of courses covering the subjects taught in FET, so you’ll probably find material to supplement the modules you teach
Recording your Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
If you attend or deliver a session which contributes to your Continuing Professional Development it’s a good idea to keep a record of your involvement
Using Open Educational Resources (OERs)
OERs are freely available, normally digital assets for research, education and assessment – anything from whole lectures or even courses to images, pictures, software, techniques, sound or films
#1minute CPD – Improve your digital skills one minute at a time
#1minuteCPD is a project to help educators improve their digital skills one minute at a time, one day at a time
Annotating in the classroom 1 – using a visualiser in webinars
How to go about annotation and writing formulae in a staff and student-friendly manner, while delivering a webinar?
Interactive timelines your students will love
Bring a timeline of dates to life with images, videos, maps and web pages
PebblePad (portfolios)
PebblePad provides individual and collective online spaces for students and staff to develop, share, reflect on and communicate their learning and achievement
Blackboard (VLE)
All Blackboard-related information can be accessed from this page. The key source of information on all Blackboard queries is UWE’s Blackboard Support website. Faculty