Mentimote: control your Mentimeter slides from your mobile device
Learn how to use Mentimote to control your Mentimeter presentations remotely from your smartphone.
Blackboard Collaborate
Tests and quizzes in the (virtual) classroom
Options for running a synchronous test or quiz in a classroom or webinar.
Statistics from Blackboard Collaborate sessions
The Interactive Tutorials Report in Collaborate shows you who joined your live sessions.
Interactive seminars, tutorials and drop-ins using Blackboard Collaborate
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 … Read more
Setting up breakout groups in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
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
Contingency plan for move to online delivery
An article on using Panopto for desktop recording and running webinars using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra.
Contingency plan: Delivering webinars
Guidance material from the LIU for using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to deliver webinars (live lectures and lessons delivered virtually).
Virtual Office Hours
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
Tips for Distance Learning Delivery
The Learning Innovation Unit has pulled together some tips based on recent experience (2017) of supporting the delivery of postgraduate distance learning programmes
Using Collaborate Ultra for one-to-one sessions
The term ‘webinar’ is perhaps mostly associated with meeting with a group of people, however the technology used for webinars can also be used very effectively as a way of … Read more
Feedback Icons in Blackboard Collaborate webinars
Encouraging students to use the feedback icons not only keeps them engaged, it gives you feedback too
Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Experience (webinars)
Collaborate online in real time by synchronous text or voice chat
Using Polling in a Blackboard Collaborate Webinar
One way of making webinars more interactive, engaging and useful for learners is to use polling
Annotating in the classroom 1 – using a visualiser in webinars
How to go about annotation and writing formulae in a staff and student-friendly manner, while delivering a webinar?