Gamified learning and student motivation
Motivate your students to learn by considering how games engage their players.
formative assessment
Blackboard Rubric Tool Part 2: Creating and using rubrics
Creating and deploying a rubric using the Blackboard Rubric tool.
Blackboard Rubric Tool Part 1: An introduction to using rubrics.
An introduction to creating and using rubrics that can be used in the Blackboard Rubric tool.
Introduction to the 3Ps
Learn how to help students Prepare, Participate and Practise to get the most from their studies.
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
Creating feedback templates in PebblePad
Structure and standardise your feedback on PebblePad by creating templates.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Active learning using Bookmarks, Notes and Discussions in Panopto
Suggestions for active learning activities using Panopto tools.
Tests and quizzes in the (virtual) classroom
Options for running a synchronous test or quiz in a classroom or webinar.
Writing Multiple Choice Questions
Read on for tips on how to create well-written, reliable and valid multiple choice questions.
Give new life to your online topic material with Xerte
If you have teaching and learning material in an online topic, Xerte offers you a great way to republish it.
Six staff describe how PebblePad has enhanced their module
Academics from FET explain how they have used PebblePad to deliver authentic and innovative assessments to students at all levels.
Three great things about PebblePad
Sharing content, giving feedback and using alumni accounts in PebblePad.
Dewis tests v Blackboard tests: which one do I choose?
A comparison of features in Dewis and Blackboard tests.
What is Dewis?
Does the module you teach involve numeracy and maths? You may want to know more about Dewis.
Blogging in Social Geography
In the first semester of 2014/15 I worked with a FET lecturer in Geography and Environmental Management, Sara-Jayne Williams, who teaches on a module called Society, Youth & Ageing. Together we developed a plan whereby students would blog about the subject matter and share their blogs with each other in order to construct subject knowledge as a class.