It can be useful to use Turnitin as part of your assignment within Blackboard. Using Turnitin can make it easier for you to collate all your student’s assignments, as well as view originality reports…
Using Turnitin within your assignments
Online courses to aid the transition into online learning – Did you know?
Did you know that there are a variety of different online courses that you can access to help you move to online teaching? Epigeum are making two of their courses free to access: Teaching Online and Blended Learning…
Setting up a remote learning workspace
Due to the current circumstances, you may be beginning to record your lectures using ReView, or host live sessions using Microsoft Teams. Many academics are becoming concerned about setting up a remote learning workspace that is effective for recording. The following are a few tips which can help you achieve a productive space…
Formative Assessment for online learning – Did you know?
With the sudden shift to online learning during the Covid-19 crisis, students are having to become increasingly more active in their learning. Students now need to think much more carefully about where they are now, where they are going and how to get there. However, this contrasts with students being predominantly consumers of knowledge in a campus-based setting…
Creating Accessible PowerPoints
When creating any learning resources within PowerPoint it is essential to ensure that the information contain within it can be accessed by all your students. Whilst remote teaching you won’t be present to clarify your slides, the following tips can help to ensure your slides are accessible…
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…
Designing online group work through problem-based learning – Did you know?
Problem based learning does not have to stop whilst your students are temporarily out of the classroom. There are several different tools that you can utilise to ensure that your students can still participate in group work whilst working at home. Discussion Boards, Microsoft Teams, Padlet and Sway…
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…
StREAM Resources Now Available
Today we’re releasing a page of resources for you with guidance on how to use the StREAM system, accompanied by helpful videos. The resources will enable staff to continue effective personal tutoring whilst working remotely. For advice on remote personal tutoring itself (rather than the system we us), please refer to the guidance already available…
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…