Many staff will be familiar with using break-out rooms in MS Teams, or at least being allocated to a break-out room. To make break-out rooms easier to manage in Teams you can also set a timer. When the timer is … Continue reading →
A digital badge is a validated measure of skill, quality or accomplishment – a type of certification – that can be earned…A digital badge usually contains data detailing what it has been awarded for, such as issue date, badge issuer … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Branching scenarios (also called decision tree scenarios) are interactive resources where learners are presented with an evolving situation in which they are required to make decisions/choose a particular course of action that will determine an outcome. Each choice that the … Continue reading →
