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 →
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 →
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 →
The use of images in online learning and teaching resources can bring a text to life, reinforce concepts through a visual medium, or function as a means of breaking up large sections of dense text. This article offers some advice … Continue reading →
The ability to track whether students have accessed your content on BlackBoard is a useful tool to identify any potential issues with engagement. Whilst there are limitations to what can be tracked on Blackboard, there is a process by which … 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 →
If you have read Making your PowerPoint accessible, you will already know that using an accessible template is the first step in creating clear and accessible slides. Your faculty or department may provide a template for you to create PowerPoint … Continue reading →
