Want to make your lectures more dynamic, accessible, and memorable? We’ve created a quick-start guide featuring 11 impactful PowerPoint tips—each with a 1-minute video tutorial, to help you transform your teaching.
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). It’s a day dedicated to getting everyone talking, thinking, and learning about digital access and inclusion. To celebrate, let’s explore some fantastic tools that can help you create content accessible to as many people as possible.
Presentations allow the capture of not only the research that the students have done but also a range of cognitive and transferable skills. Presentations can be combined with other modes of assessment, for example, the presentation of a project report,
There are a few different ways to present PowerPoints in teams, such as sharing your desktop or uploading the PowerPoint into Teams and sharing it this way. However, the most convenient way of presenting PowerPoints is to share the presentation
The FFL toolkit has been instrumental in increasing collaboration and engagement with technology in the discipline of Accounting and Finance. In particular the tools have been employed in a module at level 5 called Financial Accounting as part of the BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance course. This is a 20 credit semester-long module with a two hour lecture and two hour seminar every week.
In the first half of the course we discuss the topic of Corporate Social Responsibility. I present the main theories and approaches in the lecture and then the seminar is used to discuss and apply the theory.
The Accessibility Checker tool within Microsoft’s Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint enables you to easily check for any accessibility issues in your content…
Microsoft OneDrive has some great features that can simplify how you manage content in your VLE. Embedding files can save you time and help your students access content more easily. You can manage all of your content from OneDrive and if you make any changes to the files, your students see the updates straight away in the VLE without you having to do anything else!
Microsoft Teams, which is part of the Future Facing Learning toolkit, supports collaboration and co-authoring. When you add a Word, PowerPoint or Excel file to a team it’s automatically enabled to allow you to work together with other team users in real time on the same file…
Office Mix is a free plugin for Microsoft PowerPoint that offers a simple way to turn your PowerPoint slides into interactive online sessions and presentations. This is a great solution for anyone who wants to produce “screencasts” or “lecture casts”
This short blog will quickly go through what you need to do to embed your YouTube video directly into a PowerPoint presentation. That is, the video will appear directly in the presentation slide and not just be a link to
