If you would like your students to see your PowerPoint slides on the page in Blackboard rather than having to download them, you can embed the slides. Students can then look through the slides without leaving the blackboard page. Your … Continue reading →
If you want to display an object, or document in a face-to-face teaching session you may be familiar with using the document camera, also known as a visualiser, to project an image of the item to the whole class. In … Continue reading →
In a previous article we talked about using Class Notebook’s collaboration space for group work. This article looks at how you can use another part of Class Notebook – the Student Notebook – to view student work and provide formative … Continue reading →
When students work on group projects, they may need to present a summary of their outcomes to the wider class. Or, they may be tasked to produce an item such as a newsletter or marketing pitch as a way of … Continue reading →
Heading styles allow you to format the text of headings and sub-headings in a document to make it easier to navigate. Often headings have larger or bolder text or colours to make them stand out. But it’s important when creating … Continue reading →
If you are delivering a remote synchronous teaching session, or a hybrid class, in Teams, how do you share your slides? In the early days of Teams meetings, sharing your slides was fraught with difficulties. If you opened your PowerPoint … Continue reading →
If you want students to record the results of their groupwork discussions or collaboratively produce ideas and visual representations within a Teams teaching session, the whiteboard is a useful tool. How to access the whiteboard There’s a whiteboard available in … Continue reading →
Most of us are familiar with the idea of using Teams to collaborate with colleagues even if it’s just using the chat and meeting features. By setting up a ‘Class Team’ for a module cohort you will get access to … Continue reading →
In this final article in the series we look at how you can support students to engage effectively in group tasks. In Part 1 we mentioned some of the benefits of groupwork for students; not only can it enable them … Continue reading →
In the last article we talked about some different types of activity that could be the focus for groupwork and collaboration. If students are on campus, whilst they may meet in groups face-to-face, they could use digital tools to support … Continue reading →
