Tests and quizzes – which tool do I choose?
Compare the different tools for running asynchronous tests and quizzes.
Recording using PowerPoint
This video explains why PowerPoint may become your new best friend for producing your recorded lectures.
Using Microsoft Forms for online testing
Microsoft Forms has some great features for use in education. With the ability to combine automatic and manual grading, leave … Read more
Teams for teaching in 21/22
Things to consider if you are thinking of using Microsoft Teams for teaching and learning on your module.
Next year’s reading lists
For 2021/22: All the guidance you need to know about reading lists in one place
Bite-sized: Making recorded lectures more engaging
This video gives a range of tips (technical and practical) to help prepare engaging recorded lectures.
Hybrid teaching made simple – using a document cam
How to use and share a document cam in hybrid teaching.
Hybrid teaching made simple – using a laptop
How to use a laptop instead of the podium PC to deliver a hybrid teaching session in a classroom.
Creating feedback templates in PebblePad
Structure and standardise your feedback on PebblePad by creating templates.
Hybrid teaching made simple
How to set up a hybrid teaching session using Collaborate, share projected screens and run the chat using one monitor.
Blackboard Programme Sites – guiding principles
Support for Programme Leaders in setting up new programme sites or reviewing existing ones.
Group submissions for summative assessment
Please read this guidance if you are planning on using group work for summative assessment.
FET Blackboard Module Template 2021/22
It is important that Blackboard content is well structured, easily navigable and clearly labelled – and FET’s module template helps you to do this.
Four ways for fast formative feedback
Four ways to give valuable feedback to students that does not require a lot of extra work for you.
Simple surveys and quizzes using Microsoft Forms
Forms can be integrated into Teams and Outlook, embedded in your Blackboard module or shared using a link.
Peer feedback
Peer feedback is a powerful tool for helping students reflect on and improve their work.
Machine translation software
Microsoft Translate can be used to translate or transcribe audio, text, and even text in images.
Student-led Teams meetings
Tips for helping students use Microsoft Teams for group work and research projects.
Assessed Student Presentations – which methods should you choose?
Panopto and Collaborate can both be used for assessed student presentations – which is best for your scenario?
Using Groups in Blackboard
Create groups in your Blackboard course for facilitating group work, providing different materials to different students, or for administrative purposes.
Introducing Microsoft Whiteboard
Some ideas for active learning in webinars using Microsoft Whiteboard.
Setting up a practice assignment in Blackboard
To avoid student panics on the day of assessment, consider setting up a practice assignment submission in Blackboard.
Mentimeter icebreaker activities
These short, engaging activities can be subject-relevant as well as providing a talking point for students.
Combining videos in Panopto
Various ways of putting together different recordings or takes to give your students a seamless experience.
Using Clips in Panopto
How to insert one Panopto recording into another – add content you forgot to record or captured elsewhere.
Advanced techniques for combining videos in Panopto
Two slightly more complex ways of combining videos in Panopto – merging, and adding streams.
Blended Learning Essentials – free online courses
These free online courses are designed to help you understand the benefits of blended learning and how to make more effective use of technology to support your learners.
Creating captions using YouTube
How to improve accessibility on your self-created video resources by creating a captions file in YouTube.
Using the Focus and Cut tools when editing in Panopto
Advanced Panopto editing working with different streams, including how to add and remove slides.
An introduction to hybrid teaching
A guide for teaching in situations where some of your students are in the physical classroom and others are online.
Using Mentimeter with Collaborate to facilitate questioning in hybrid teaching
Use Mentimeter to share questions and answers with both on-campus and remote audiences at the same time.
The Collaborate Assessment Tool
A series of short videos on how to use the new Blackboard Collaborate Assessment tool with your students.
Captions in Panopto
Make your desktop recordings more accessible by using Panopto automatic captioning.
What do I do if Collaborate is down?
A guide to getting your students onto a Teams meeting if Blackboard Collaborate is unavailable
A Guide for New Teaching Staff
For teaching staff who have joined the Faculty recently, or existing staff who’d like a reminder…
Use of Guest links in Blackboard Collaborate
Why you should avoid enabling guest links, and best practice for when they are necessary.
Why you should launch your Panopto quizzes from Blackboard
If you use Panopto quizzes, make sure you understand how to link to the Panopto recordings correctly.
Blackboard Announcement subject headings
Why does my Blackboard Announcement email not include my subject heading? Read on for the solution.
Attendee roles in Collaborate
Understand the different roles in Collaborate webinars and how to assign them.
Adding Mentimeter quizzes to Panopto recordings
You can use Mentimeter within your Panopto recordings to keep them interactive just as you would in a classroom.
Using Blackboard Collaborate across modules and programmes
Get links for your live Collaborate session and recording, for students who can’t enter through the Blackboard module site.
Delivering webinars: Guides for using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
Guidance material (including video guides and a student resource) for delivering webinars using Blackboard Collaborate.
Setting up folders in Panopto for assessment purposes
Important information for staff recording student presentations using Panopto