Setting up folders in Panopto for assessment purposes
Important information for staff recording student presentations using Panopto
summative assessment
Student Presentations in PowerPoint
Some instructions for your students on using PowerPoint to record if they are unable to use Kaltura.
A guide to take-home exams
Advice for staff on setting take-home exams and advice for students on hand-written and hand-drawn answers
Contingency assessments – a guide to resources
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 … Read more
Creating an Assessment Submission Point in Blackboard
These instructions cover setting up a submission point for an online exam (as part of the contingency plan).
How to change your assignment deadline in Pebblepad
A short video guide to changing your assignment dates in PebblePad.
Writing Multiple Choice Questions
Read on for tips on how to create well-written, reliable and valid multiple choice questions.
*New Aug 19: Kaltura submissions – what do I need to tell my students?
If your students need to record their presentations, please ensure they receive this guidance about the new Kaltura Capture recorder.
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Help students develop their academic writing skills with SafeAssign
Find out how Blackboard’s originality checker can be used to embed good referencing practice.
Grade Mapping in Blackboard
Easy-to-follow, step-by-step, visual guidance which will only take a few minutes of your time to follow.
Six staff describe how PebblePad has enhanced their module
In this video academics from FET tell us how they have used PebblePad to deliver authentic and innovative assessments to students from foundation to masters level.
Three great things about PebblePad
There are lots of good things about PebblePad (and a few not so good, too!) and in this article I will share with you my top three.
Summative Blackboard MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions) Exam
If you want to run an online multiple choice questions exam under controlled conditions in an exam room, here are step by step instructions. In good time before the exam … Read more
Dewis tests v Blackboard tests: which one do I choose?
The first consideration would be the type of questions your test needs to have. Blackboard has a wider variety of question types and, depending on the subject matter of the test, this may be the deciding factor.
What is Dewis?
Have you come across references to Dewis and were unsure of what it is? Does the module you teach involve numeracy and maths?
PebblePad (portfolios)
PebblePad provides individual and collective online spaces for students and staff to develop, share, reflect on and communicate their learning and achievement
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.