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Scheduling Assistant

DLaT Hub Posted on May 19, 2022 by jcoope03May 19, 2022

Scheduling Assistant can help you to find the most suitable time to arrange an MS Teams meeting with one or more colleagues. The problem Say we wish to schedule a meeting: how can we work out what date and time … Continue reading →

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How to replicate casual face to face interaction in an online world

DLaT Hub Posted on May 15, 2022 by rvalla00May 15, 2022

How to replicate casual face to face interaction in a virtual world Face to face interaction allows you to see the other individual or groups of people in a conversation. It can allow for a better exchange of information and … Continue reading →

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Which rubric?

DLaT Hub Posted on May 6, 2022 by hconbo00May 18, 2022

Rubrics in Turnitin  can be extremely helpful for marking and feedback. However, you may be confused by the range of rubric types and the differences between them. In Turnitin, there are several types of rubric that take the form of … Continue reading →

Posted in -, Assessment, DMU Core Tech

Checking and fixing the accessibility of your PDFs

DLaT Hub Posted on April 29, 2022 by Maxine ArmstrongApril 29, 2022

If you have Adobe® Acrobat® Pro DC it is straightforward to check the accessibility of your PDFs. Use the Accessibility Check tool to verify the accessibility of any document that you create. To use the Accessibility Checker Step 1: Acrobat … Continue reading →

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How to forward an MS Teams meeting invitation to another person

DLaT Hub Posted on April 21, 2022 by jcoope03May 16, 2022

Say you’ve already created a Teams meeting and have already invited people, and then further people need to be added: how do you invite the extra people without having to re-send the meeting invitation to everyone who’s already received it? … Continue reading →

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Interactive Content Creation Tools

DLaT Hub Posted on April 12, 2022 by hconbo00April 13, 2022

If you are wanting to create more interactive learning resources, or improve your teaching content, here are some more that may be of interest!  Mark Robinson, one of the brilliant university Frontrunners, has been working with us and he is … Continue reading →

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Blackboard Learning Modules

DLaT Hub Posted on April 7, 2022 by Rob WealeApril 7, 2022

Learning Modules in Blackboard offer a simple and intuitive mechanism for instructors to organise course content in a hierarchical structure so that students can navigate through content in a logical and sequential way. Learning Modules can contain all of the … Continue reading →

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Using the Hotspot question type in Blackboard

DLaT Hub Posted on April 4, 2022 by Ian PettitApril 4, 2022

The Blackboard test function is a versatile tool – the ‘go to’ question types may be single or multiple-choice questions but the Hotspot question type enables us to incorporate images into our questions and provide a multi-modal format. The Hotspot … Continue reading →

Posted in Assessment, Blackboard, ELT, Pedagogy

Using built in design ideas in PowerPoint

DLaT Hub Posted on March 17, 2022 by Maxine ArmstrongMarch 17, 2022

You can use design ideas (now known as Designer) in PowerPoint if you are using the Microsoft 365 (M365) version (formerly called Office 365). Designer suggests layouts and ideas for designing your slides that can help provide a more professional … Continue reading →

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Embedding PowerPoint slides in a Blackboard course using Office 365

DLaT Hub Posted on March 15, 2022 by rvalla00March 22, 2022

By embedding a PowerPoint presentation into your Blackboard module, programme or community shell, you can provide students with a more visually appealing course design. It is also the easiest way to share updates to the presentation with your students since any … Continue reading →

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