Faculty of Environment and Technology
Beth Hammond 
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
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
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
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
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
Create a transcript from automated captions. Continue Reading Quick transcripts for your Panopto recordings
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?
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
Understand the different roles in Collaborate webinars and how to assign them. Continue Reading Attendee roles in Collaborate
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
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
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
A resource to help you implement UWE’s four principles of learning design. Continue Reading UWE’s four principles of learning design
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
Suggestions for active learning activities using Panopto tools. Continue Reading Active learning using Bookmarks, Notes and Discussions in Panopto
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. Continue Reading Using Panopto Bookmarks, Notes and Discussions tools
Learn how to use Mentimote to control your Mentimeter presentations remotely from your smartphone. Continue Reading Mentimote: control your Mentimeter slides from your mobile device
Options for running a synchronous test or quiz in a classroom or webinar. Continue Reading Tests and quizzes in the (virtual) classroom
Compare the different tools for running asynchronous tests and quizzes. Continue Reading Tests and quizzes – which tool do I choose?
Make Teams work better for you by learning how to use notification settings. Continue Reading Notification settings in Teams
Delivering content outside the lecture theatre – tips for desktop recordings. Continue Reading Replacing face-to-face lectures with recorded lectures – good practice
A workaround for recording your meetings in Teams. Continue Reading Using Panopto to capture meetings in Microsoft Teams
While a Blackboard submission point can accept file sizes of up to 100MB, they will not be processed by SafeAssign unless they are below 10MB. This is because SafeAssign is… Continue Reading SafeAssign file limits
Sometimes you or your students may need to attach a document to an email, discussion board, submission point etc. where there is a limit on the file size it can… Continue Reading Compressing images in a document
Whether you’re using a flipped learning model, facilitating group work or just wanting to give your students some individual support, online interaction can be done through Blackboard Collaborate Ultra. Here… Continue Reading Interactive seminars, tutorials and drop-ins using Blackboard Collaborate
Breakout groups allow multiple linked Collaborate sessions to happen at the same time; the online equivalent of students splitting off to work in groups in a classroom. In a breakout… Continue Reading Setting up breakout groups in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
Mentimeter for Teaching Part 2. This series of articles explores how Mentimeter can be used to enrich the student experience and boost engagement. Continue Reading Active Learning with Mentimeter
You can use Panopto to provide video content from guest lecturers to your students on Blackboard. Continue Reading Uploading videos to Panopto
Mentimeter for Teaching Part 3. This series of articles explores how Mentimeter can be used to enrich the student experience and boost engagement. Continue Reading Using Mentimeter to check progress
As there have been a number of communications about assessments, this guide is designed to pull together all the information you need, point you to the essential information and set… Continue Reading Contingency assessments – a guide to resources
As a UWE member of staff, you can use Panopto on your work or home computer. Here’s how to do it. Continue Reading Installing Panopto
Add interactivity to your videos using Panopto quizzes, Mentimeter or Xerte. Continue Reading Three ways to add quizzes and interactivity to Panopto recordings
Mentimeter for Teaching Part 1. This series of articles explores how Mentimeter can be used to enrich the student experience and boost engagement. Continue Reading Using Mentimeter in and out of the classroom
If you are working from home due to University closure, it could be useful to set up virtual office hours. The key thing is to make it clear to your… Continue Reading Virtual Office Hours
If you have previously used a different in-class polling system such as TurningPoint, here are some things to consider when converting your polls to Mentimeter. Continue Reading Mentimeter – converting previous polls