Using Groups in Blackboard
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.
Introducing Microsoft Whiteboard
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 … Read more
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
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 … Read more
Combining videos in Panopto
Various ways of putting together different recordings or takes to give your students a seamless experience without you having to create long videos.
Using Clips 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.
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
This article explains 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
Using Mentimeter in hybrid teaching so that questions and answers can be shared with both on-campus and remote audiences at the same time.
The Collaborate Assessment Tool
This is 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
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 … Read more
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
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.
Delivering webinars: Guides for using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
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 … Read more
Setting up folders in Panopto for assessment purposes
Important information for staff recording student presentations using Panopto
Sharing files using OneDrive – Working in breakout groups
Use shared documents in breakout rooms for students to record the results of collaborative activities.
Sharing files using OneDrive – Sign-up lists
Use shared OneDrive files to create sign-up lists for your students.
Sharing files using OneDrive – Sharing to a module
How to share a file with students on your module using a distribution list or through Blackboard.
Sharing files using OneDrive – The basics
Understand sharing in OneDrive – creating live links to your files.
How to download an audio-only file from Panopto
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 … Read more
Editing recordings from Blackboard Collaborate using Panopto
If you want to edit a recording from Blackboard Collaborate, you will need to download it and upload it into Panopto.
How to automatically start and stop YouTube videos at specific times
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 … Read more
UWE’s four principles of learning design
A resource to help you implement UWE’s four principles of learning design.
Making your content items accessible in Blackboard
Some archived, but still useful, content from the old Blackboard Support pages.
Next year’s reading lists
For 2020/21: All the guidance you need to know about reading lists in one place
Student Presentations in PowerPoint
Some instructions for your students on using PowerPoint to record if they are unable to use Kaltura.
Laurillard’s learning types for online and blended learning
Learn which tools can help you implement Laurillard’s six learning types online.
Designing your teaching sessions using Laurillard’s learning types
Plan your lessons using a variety of activities to help your students learn.
Active learning using Bookmarks, Notes and Discussions in Panopto
Suggestions for active learning activities using Panopto tools.
Using Panopto Bookmarks, Notes and Discussions tools
Understand how your students can make use of the tools in Panopto to get more from your video recordings by adding bookmarks, taking notes and discussing with classmates.
Student tips for watching Panopto recordings
Here are some tips that students might find helpful when watching Panopto event capture recordings.
Mentimote: control your Mentimeter slides from your mobile device
Learn how to use Mentimote to control your Mentimeter presentations remotely from your smartphone.
Tests and quizzes in the (virtual) classroom
Options for running a synchronous test or quiz in a classroom or webinar.
Tests and quizzes – which tool do I choose?
Compare the different tools for running asynchronous tests and quizzes.
FET Blackboard Module Template 2020/21
Find out about the changes to the 2020/21 FET Blackboard Module Template and other support to help you create an accessible module site.