A common email we receive is about the quota of a module being reached. You may have seen this when you’ve gone to upload some new content in your module. A red error message appears, telling you that the module quota has been reached and you can’t add any more content. In a nutshell, it means your module is full…
This post will look at some of the more common questions related to the Blackboard VLE and how to resolve them.
This blog post will look at some of the key considerations with regards to setting up your module for the new academic year.
Blackboard comes with a few different approaches to downloading your student submissions. This article looks at two different methods, and will take you through the steps needed…
When a module has more than one assignment, we often create weighted totals. For example, one assignment might count towards 70% of the final mark. The other assignment might count towards the remaining 30%. Blackboard can calculate this for you, saving you time and effort…
There are many times when students work in groups on an assignment. Blackboard allows you to set up group work, including group submissions. This article will take a quick look at the process, signposting to existing articles where relevant…
ReView is Teesside University’s lecture capture solution. It gives a straight forward approach to recording lectures that students can then consume in their own time. It can also be used for personal capture – such as monologues, walk-throughs, even short pep-talks. Whilst the University is undergoing such disruption, these videos will become invaluable aids for your students who cannot be on campus…
Padlet is a bit like a bulletin board where participants can post a variety of items onto a digital wall…
Kate Byrnes has been exploring the use of Socrative in her sessions. This article looks at how she has used Socrative and how it applies to the FFL Toolkit.
A little while ago, Microsoft made some very interesting developments to their wonderful Office Lens app. We will look at those enhancements in a minute but first, let’s take a quick look at Office Lens. If you’ve not used it before, it’s a very handy app that can “scan” a variety of materials: whiteboards, documents, business cards and so on..
