Digital Teaching and Learning approaches and technology options
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This tool provides a selection of technologies available to support various approaches to online learning events. If you are unsure of the best option to employ or if you have an idea for a teaching approach and would like advice about the best tool for delivery do please contact a member of the CELT. The CELT team will be able to provide technical and pedagogic advice and guidance to support your use of the various tools listed below.
Please note that many of these tools can be readily combined to provide a suite of options for supporting learning.
Digital teaching approach |
Learning and Teaching tool options |
| Synchronous sessions | Microsoft Teams meeting |
| Asynchronous (recorded) sessions | DMU Replay
Teams meeting (downloaded to DMU Replay) Linkedin Learning (pre-recorded resources) |
| Forum discussions | Blackboard discussion board
Microsoft Teams chat |
| Blogging | OurDMU (formerly DMU Commons) |
| Surveys and quizzes | Microsoft Forms (can be linked to synchronous teaching events using Teams)
Blackboard Tests and Surveys |
| ePortfolios | Microsoft One Note Class Notebook
Blackboard Journals OurDMU |
| Sharing learning resources | DMU Resource Lists (must be employed and made available for the course start)
Additional options: Blackboard cohort and group content areas linking to – · Blackboard stored or embedded resources · Microsoft One Drive · Microsoft Teams File share · Microsoft One Note Class Notebook Microsoft Teams employing: · Group channels · One Drive · File sharing · One Note Class Notebook |
| Joint / group working on a single resource or document | Microsoft:
· One Drive · Microsoft Teams File share · One Note Class Notebook Blackboard wikis |
| Formative assessment | Blackboard tests
Blackboard assignment Microsoft Teams assignment |
| Summative assessment | Blackboard tests
Turnitin submission route Large file size submission portal |
| Online examinations | Blackboard tests
Teams assignments Blackboard Assignments Turnitin assignment submission Proctorio (only available for specific modules) |
| Similarity checking | Turnitin |
| Student assessment data | Blackboard Grade Centre |