Faculty of Environment and Technology
Beth Hammond 
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 … Read more
Mentimeter for Teaching Part 2. This series of articles explores how Mentimeter can be used to enrich the student experience and boost engagement.
You can use Panopto to provide video content from guest lecturers to your students on Blackboard.
Mentimeter for Teaching Part 3. This series of articles explores how Mentimeter can be used to enrich the student experience and boost engagement.
As a UWE member of staff, you can use Panopto on your work or home computer. Here’s how to do it.
Add interactivity to your videos using Panopto quizzes, Mentimeter or Xerte.
Mentimeter for Teaching Part 1. This series of articles explores how Mentimeter can be used to enrich the student experience and boost engagement.
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 … Read more
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.
New interactive resources to help you make your Blackboard content more accessible, including step-by-step guides for Word an PowerPoint.
Learn how to use an accessibility checker on your document and test colours with a contrast checker.
Learn how to manage your Mentimeter presentations in and outside of class: how to hide results, close a poll and share both the results and the presentation itself.
If you have a self-created video resource, this post explains how to improve accessibility by associating a caption file with it using Panopto.
This article explains how to improve accessibility on your self-created video resources by creating a captions file in YouTube.
If you have a self-created video resource, this post explains how to improve accessibility by associating a caption file with it using Kaltura.
UWE has adopted Mentimeter as the new polling tool for the university. Here is a quick guide to help you find your way around.
Here are two ways you can add interest to your Blackboard posts. 1. Styles are for life, not just for Word documents In our previous post on Word styles, we … Read more
Have you ever copy-and-pasted text from Word into a different piece of software, for example a Blackboard post, and found it looked… wrong? Maybe there were unnecessary spaces in words, … Read more
Oh deer! Santa’s elves have given him an Excel list of children to deliver presents to. But the addresses are ordered by surname, and the list of children can only … Read more
You may have heard about using styles in MS Word to make your documents more accessible. That means defining your headings in a way that a screen reader can understand, … Read more