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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
Peer feedback is a powerful tool for helping students reflect on and improve their work. Continue Reading Peer feedback
Highlights of the online Xerte conference. Continue Reading Xerte Conference: March 2021
We’ve made a change to this website. Following digital accessibility guidelines, links to other sites now open in the same tab. We’ve done this to reduce confusion for screenreader users… Continue Reading Put it on the tab
Machine translation software automates the process of translating text or audio from one language to another. Microsoft Translator This is an embedded tool in Microsoft Office 365 and enables quick… Continue Reading Machine translation software
One of the great things about Teams over Blackboard Collaborate is that it allows students to organise themselves independently. It gives them the power to set up meetings, come together… Continue Reading Student-led Teams meetings
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?
A compilation of our Advent teaching and learning tips, in case you missed them. Continue Reading Happy New Year!
You can create groups of students in your Blackboard course. This can be useful for facilitating group work, providing different materials to different students, or dividing your class up for administrative purposes. Continue Reading Using Groups in Blackboard
If you’re missing a whiteboard, check out Microsoft Whiteboard, a collaborative digital canvas that is available to download from the UWE software centre (there is an online version but it… Continue Reading Introducing Microsoft Whiteboard
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 of this post is to share some examples of how… Continue Reading Mentimeter icebreaker activities
Various ways of putting together different recordings or takes to give your students a seamless experience without you having to create long videos. Continue Reading Combining videos in Panopto
Learn how to set up and share a Panopto playlist. Continue Reading Playlists in Panopto
Learn how to insert one Panopto recording into another – useful for adding in content you forgot to record or needed to do at a different time or place. Continue Reading Using Clips in Panopto
Two slightly more complex ways of combining videos in Panopto – merging, and adding streams. Continue Reading Advanced techniques for combining videos in Panopto
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. Continue Reading Blended Learning Essentials – free online courses
This article explains how to improve accessibility on your self-created video resources by creating a captions file in YouTube. Continue Reading Creating captions using YouTube
Advanced Panopto editing working with different streams, including how to add and remove slides. Continue Reading Using the Focus and Cut tools when editing in Panopto
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
Create a transcript from automated captions. Continue Reading Quick transcripts for your Panopto recordings
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
This is a series of short videos on how to use the new Blackboard Collaborate Assessment tool with your students. Continue Reading The Collaborate Assessment Tool
Make your desktop recordings more accessible by using Panopto automatic captioning. Continue Reading Captions in Panopto
How to get your recordings to look the way you want. Continue Reading Understanding Panopto streams
A guide to getting your students onto a Teams meeting if Blackboard Collaborate is unavailable Continue Reading What do I do if Collaborate is down?
For teaching staff who have joined the Faculty recently, or existing staff who’d like a reminder… Continue Reading A Guide for New Teaching Staff
There have been a number of people causing disruption to webinars after accessing sessions using Guest links. Guest links allow users to enter sessions anonymously and should NOT be used… Continue Reading Use of Guest links in Blackboard Collaborate
If you use Panopto quizzes, make sure you understand how to link to the Panopto recordings correctly. Continue Reading Why you should launch your Panopto quizzes from Blackboard
Why does my Blackboard Announcement email not include my subject heading? Read on for the solution. Continue Reading Blackboard Announcement subject headings
Understand the different roles in Collaborate webinars and how to assign them. Continue Reading Attendee roles in Collaborate
You can use Mentimeter within your Panopto recordings to keep them interactive just as you would in a classroom. Continue Reading Adding Mentimeter quizzes to Panopto recordings
Learn how to get a link for your live Collaborate session and a link for the recorded session, for students who can’t enter through the Blackboard module site. Continue Reading Using Blackboard Collaborate across modules and programmes
This article provides written and video guidance material for using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to deliver webinars (live lectures and lessons delivered virtually). For an overview and related articles, see our… Continue Reading Delivering webinars: Guides for using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
Important information for staff recording student presentations using Panopto Continue Reading Setting up folders in Panopto for assessment purposes
Use shared documents in breakout rooms for students to record the results of collaborative activities. Continue Reading Sharing files using OneDrive – Working in breakout groups
Use shared OneDrive files to create sign-up lists for your students. Continue Reading Sharing files using OneDrive – Sign-up lists
How to share a file with students on your module using a distribution list or through Blackboard. Continue Reading Sharing files using OneDrive – Sharing to a module
Understand sharing in OneDrive – creating live links to your files.
Continue Reading Sharing files using OneDrive – The basics
This article outlines how to download an audio-only file from Panopto. You may want to use audio files in Xerte resources you make, for example, in which case the smaller… Continue Reading How to download an audio-only file from Panopto
If you want to edit a recording from Blackboard Collaborate, you will need to download it and upload it into Panopto. Continue Reading Editing recordings from Blackboard Collaborate using Panopto
Have you ever wanted to show students just part of a YouTube video but had difficulty finding the start of the clip? Or maybe you have linked to a YouTube… Continue Reading How to automatically start and stop YouTube videos at specific times
A resource to help you implement UWE’s four principles of learning design. Continue Reading UWE’s four principles of learning design
Some archived, but still useful, content from the old Blackboard Support pages. Continue Reading Making your content items accessible in Blackboard
For 2020/21: All the guidance you need to know about reading lists in one place Continue Reading Next year’s reading lists
Some instructions for your students on using PowerPoint to record if they are unable to use Kaltura. Continue Reading Student Presentations in PowerPoint
Learn which tools can help you implement Laurillard’s six learning types online. Continue Reading Laurillard’s learning types for online and blended learning
Plan your lessons using a variety of activities to help your students learn. Continue Reading Designing your teaching sessions using Laurillard’s learning types
Quickly add captions to all your Kaltura recordings. Continue Reading Captioning Kaltura Recordings Automatically
