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 →
Why a warm-up activity? Warm up activities are short, and often fun, activities designed to encourage students, and prepare them to learn by stimulating their minds (and/or their bodies). Any kind of engagement with your students will help to build … 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 →
Blackboard discussion boards are an asynchronous method of communication, where students can discuss ideas and thoughts, but they do not have to be in the same location. Strengths/Advantages of online Discussion Forums Discussion forums are a useful way of getting … Continue reading →
An escape room (or breakout room) is an engaging activity where students interact in a story adventure to solve puzzles and think critically to identify information needed to break out. Escape room resources can encourage collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and … Continue reading →
Previously we looked at how QuickMarks in Turnitin can help provide effective feedback and save time when marking students’ assignments in Turnitin. QuickMark Sets are a feature that helps you take this further by organising your comments into collections. Built-in … Continue reading →
At DMU, we have the ability to link our Blackboard Courses to Microsoft Teams. In doing this, we create opportunities to use all of the available Teams functionality, including the use of a OneNote Class Notebook, to enhance the student … Continue reading →
QuickMarks is a feature of Turnitin: when marking a student’s assignment in Turnitin, QuickMarks can help you to provide effective feedback and save you time. Overview QuickMarks are commonly used phrases and comments which you can apply or create for … Continue reading →
