Teaching Practices

Peer feedback

Peer feedback is a powerful tool for helping students reflect on and improve their work. Continue Reading Peer feedback

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One of the great things about Teams over Blackboard Collaborate is that it allows students to organise themselves independently. It…

Panopto and Collaborate can both be used for assessed student presentations – which is best for your scenario? Continue Reading Assessed Student Presentations – which methods should you choose?

If you’re missing a whiteboard, check out Microsoft Whiteboard, a collaborative digital canvas that is available to download from the…

To avoid student panics on the day of assessment, consider setting up a practice assignment submission in Blackboard. Continue Reading Setting up a practice assignment in Blackboard

Mentimeter is easy to use, has some great features and has proven popular with staff and students alike. The aim…

A guide for teaching in situations where some of your students are in the physical classroom and others are online. Continue Reading An introduction to hybrid teaching

Using Mentimeter in hybrid teaching so that questions and answers can be shared with both on-campus and remote audiences at the same time. Continue Reading Using Mentimeter with Collaborate to facilitate questioning in hybrid teaching

Forms can be used to create both surveys and quizzes which can be integrated into Teams and Outlook, embedded in your Blackboard module or shared using a link. Continue Reading Simple surveys and quizzes using Microsoft Forms

Machine translation software automates the process of translating text or audio from one language to another. Microsoft Translator This is…

One of the great things about Teams over Blackboard Collaborate is that it allows students to organise themselves independently. It…

Panopto and Collaborate can both be used for assessed student presentations – which is best for your scenario? Continue Reading Assessed Student Presentations – which methods should you choose?

If you’re missing a whiteboard, check out Microsoft Whiteboard, a collaborative digital canvas that is available to download from the…

We’ve made a change to this website. Following digital accessibility guidelines, links to other sites now open in the same…

Machine translation software automates the process of translating text or audio from one language to another. Microsoft Translator This is…

Make your desktop recordings more accessible by using Panopto automatic captioning. Continue Reading Captions in Panopto

Why does my Blackboard Announcement email not include my subject heading? Read on for the solution. Continue Reading Blackboard Announcement subject headings

Some archived, but still useful, content from the old Blackboard Support pages. Continue Reading Making your content items accessible in Blackboard

Find out about the changes to the 2020/21 FET Blackboard Module Template and other support to help you create an accessible module site. Continue Reading FET Blackboard Module Template 2020/21