Personal Tutoring is a key component of the student journey and has the potential to significantly influence the student learning experience, promote effective student engagement and thereby improving retention and achievement…
Free Jisc Online Course – From yawn to yay!
It can be hard work and very tiring taking part in live online sessions for hours at a time, day after day, without a break. We need our webinars, classes and meetings to be as effective, engaging and enjoyable as possible…
Batch Downloading Assignments
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…
Weighted Totals and the Grade Centre
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…
Managing Group Assignments
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…
Supporting the design and implementation of alternative online assessment arrangements
At a time when staff and students alike are having to demonstrate their capacity to flex and adapt to unprecedented levels of change and uncertainty, not just in relation to their academic work, but more significantly in every facet of their lives beyond university – it has never been more important to preserve the quality of the learning experience and academic…
Excellence in Personal Tutoring and Promoting Student Engagement
Academic Registry are currently working on a number of projects to support the recovery planning for the University, to drive excellence around a number of key areas and to contribute to meeting the Vision of Teesside 2025.
One of these projects is focused around two core themes: Excellence in Personal Tutoring and Promoting and Encouraging Student Engagement across the University…
Tips for managing your Blackboard module quota
Now more than ever we are creating and sharing an abundance of electronic resources with our students. Some of these resources might be documents that take up very little space. However, some resources we create like lecture capture videos or narrated PowerPoint’s can take up a large amount of space…
Reminder of Forthcoming UKAT Webinar from its Tutoring Matters Series
As we live in tumultuous times around the world, how can personal tutors/academic advisers help students in continuing their education when many fear global issues which impact their lives? The next UKAT webinar is ‘Advising in Turbulent Times’ and is taking place on Tuesday, 5th May at 11:00…
Ways to Simplify Your Online Teaching Approach
One of the biggest barriers to online teaching is feeling inundated. If you feel like this, then so will your students! By simplifying your teaching approach, you can reduce the overwhelming feelings, reduce student confusion and make your online teaching more effective…