Beth Hammond
How Teams can help your students Prepare, Participate and Practise
Find out more about the benefits of Microsoft Class Teams.
Student screen sharing for in-class settings
Have the best of both worlds; face-to-face classes where students can share their screens.
FET Blackboard Module Template 2022/23
It is important that Blackboard content is well structured, easily navigable and clearly labelled – and FET’s module template helps you to do this.
Play and Peer Learning: ideas from beyond the campus
See our video interview with Huddlecraft from UWE’s Festival of Learning.
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.
Testing your Blackboard course
Test courses, preview users and test student accounts to help you check your course is working properly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Creating feedback templates in PebblePad
Structure and standardise your feedback on PebblePad by creating templates.
Group submissions for summative assessment
Please read this guidance if you are planning on using group work for summative assessment.
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.
Student-led Teams meetings
Tips for helping students use Microsoft Teams for group work and research projects.
Using Groups in Blackboard
Create groups in your Blackboard course for facilitating group work, providing different materials to different students, or for administrative purposes.
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.
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.
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.
Captions in Panopto
Make your desktop recordings more accessible by using Panopto automatic captioning.
