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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…

Apple have compiled resources to help you make the most of technology whilst supporting remote learning. The Apple Teacher Learning Center is always a great place to find tips and inspiration for your teaching….

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…

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…

Online learning has opened up a world of possibilities to help to support students on their learning journey. Choosing the right method depends on your learning objective for the particular lesson you are delivering online. Each offers advantages and, of course, drawbacks. So, what is Synchronous and Asynchronous learning and which one should you choose?

Advance HE (which includes the former Higher Education Academy) have established Advance HE Connect, an online network dedicated to higher education. Teesside University staff can access the network to share, connect and collaborate with over 15,000 global HE peers. Advance HE Connect was developed following a consultation with representatives from 96 institutions in 14 countries, with the aim of connecting the HE community on a global scale…

Transitioning from on campus to online learning can be a major change for your students. Some students will find this time stressful, so we must aim to make this change as seamless as possible. Here are some tips for your students to ensure that they are getting the most out of this online learning experience…

Do you know that Forms can be used for data gathering purposes by all university staff, students and researchers? A form is very quick and easy to set up. Forms can be used for Simple surveys and questionnaires, Feedback forms, Registrations and event sign-up, Quizzes and more…