Play and Peer Learning: ideas from beyond the campus
See our video interview with Huddlecraft from UWE’s Festival of Learning.
Learning and Development digital consultation for your team
The Learning and Development (LDC) digital learning consultants are offering a new service to support your team with their digital skills development.
Gamified learning and student motivation
Motivate your students to learn by considering how games engage their players.
What motivates your students?
Understand your students’ motivations to help engage them in their programme.
How learning happens with Seppo
Seppo can help us to achieve the strategic aims of providing ‘innovative learning strategies and environments’ and ‘experiences of practice-based learning within and outside the University’.
Making the most of the Calendar in Blackboard
Help students plan their work by using the calendar tool in Blackboard.
Seppo – a new tool for location-based and game-based learning
Seppo is an online tool currently being trialled in FET for location-based learning and game-based learning.
Testing your Blackboard course
Test courses, preview users and test student accounts to help you check your course is working properly.
Sharing a visualiser/document camera in a TEAL room.
How to share a visualiser/document camera with your students in a TEAL (Technology Enhanced Active Learning) room.
Blackboard Rubric Tool Part 2: Creating and using rubrics
Creating and deploying a rubric using the Blackboard Rubric tool.
Blackboard Rubric Tool Part 1: An introduction to using rubrics.
An introduction to creating and using rubrics that can be used in the Blackboard Rubric tool.
Christmas 2021 in the Learning Innovation Unit
This year’s countdown to Christmas gives tips for how you can help your students Prepare, Participate and Practise their learning.
Improving recorded audio quality in a classroom.
How to improve the quality of recorded audio in a teaching room.
Introduction to the 3Ps
Learn how to help students Prepare, Participate and Practise to get the most from their studies.
Peer feedback in PebblePad – using comments
Learn how students can use the Comment feature in PebblePad for peer feedback.
Location-based learning with Seppo
On 1st October we trialled our new software for location-based learning, Seppo, with the fantastic Urban Orienteering event around Bristol.
What’s your educational philosophy?
Try the Teaching Perspectives Inventory to help you understand your teaching style.
Using PebblePad for assessment
How PebblePad can help with assessment of, assessment for and assessment as learning.
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?