Guidance for making alternative online assessment arrangements

Guidance for making alternative online assessment arrangements

We’ve revised and created additional guidance around making alternative online assessment arrangements. It is important that we keep in mind that the overall aim remains facilitating and capturing student learning through equitable and appropriate methods, aligned to course learning outcomes. When seeking to make such alternative online assessment arrangements we need to ensure we are preparing them in a robust way to ensure the quality and equity of the assessment…

Using ReView/Panopto to record your lectures

Using ReView/Panopto to record your lectures

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…

Using Microsoft Teams to Schedule a ‘Teams Live Event’ – Did you know?

Using Microsoft Teams to Schedule a ‘Teams Live Event’ – Did you know?

What are the Teams Live Events? Teams Live Events provides an excellent way to stream live video and digital content to your students, enabling enhanced engagement. Events can be used for webinars and ‘live learning and teaching’ demonstrations when delivering Learning and Teaching remotely. Additional features include: Live Q&A, Post-event video downloads, Attendee engagement reports, Live captions and translation and Transcripts…

Creating quizzes and polls using Socrative – Did you know?

Creating quizzes and polls using Socrative – Did you know?

Did you know you can create quizzes and polls with Socrative and share them online with your students? Socrative is a quizzing tool designed specifically for education activities and can be used for engaging your students even when working remotely. With Socrative you can quickly develop polls to check student progress or build self-paced quizzes with instant feedback for formative assessment…

Maintaining Office Hours in a Virtual Environment – Did you know?

Maintaining Office Hours in a Virtual Environment – Did you know?

Did you know you can maintain office hours using Microsoft Teams? Virtual office hours are a great way to host one-to-one sessions that you would normally host on campus. This could be for a quick catch up, or even to go through your student’s assignment. Start by setting out clear expectations of when your virtual office hours are going to be held. Ask your students to book onto a time slot so that you can manage this time effectively…