When creating posts, you can choose the attachment type ‘poll’. The poll attachment allows you to create a multiple choice question, with a maximum of 4 options. Want to make, open and close polls? See Padlet guide: Polls What do Padlet polls look like? The poll questions will display in the post attachment field, you […]
If you wish to retain author names (attached to posts) when copying or importing padlets, then you must ensure the post authors are members of the institutional Padlet license before using the import function. If you have used a different email address for your paid (or freemium) Padlet account, compared to your university Padlet account, then
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Padlet (institutional license) Padlet is an online pinboard app for collecting student responses, supporting rich media sharing in the classroom or during self-scheduled/independent study. Use Padlet to enhance student engagement with learning activities, for example, group discussions, creative collaboration, Q&A, research tasks, mind mapping and online community building. Explore Padlet guides Getting started Responsible use
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This guide takes you through the step by step process to access and use your university Padlet account. The institutional Padlet licence is for Teaching and Learning at the University of Reading; allowing you to make, configure and securely share an unlimited number of padlets with your students. 1. Activate your institutional Padlet licence To
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Microsoft Teams for Teaching and Learning MS Teams is an online collaboration tool from Microsoft, available to the whole university and managed/supported by DTS. if using the tool for T&L purposes you can request CQSD TEL guidance and support for the scenarios outlined below. Explore Teams guides Session Preparation Session Recording Request a Team
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Key Information Teams meeting is a web conferencing tool for holding real-time online ‘virtual classroom’ sessions. Use the tool for live online teaching, seminars, tutorials and meetings with students. Additionally, Teams meetings can be used to facilitate oral assessments such as student presentations, role play or other speaking and listening tasks. Important: links to live online teaching must be displayed in the corresponding Blackboard course. How
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What is an e-portfolio? An e-portfolio is a digital presentation of student learning experiences and/or evidence of learning achievements, across a single or multiple modules, projects or an entire programme. The digital presentation of student learning experiences and achievements may include: Written or audio-recorded reflections Evidence of attainment, such as checklists or practitioner signatures Images
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Blackboard Organisations What are Blackboard Organisations and when are they used? How are students enrolled into Organisations? Requesting an Organisation Organisation design: good practice guidance Update 2023/24: All Organisations are now in Learn Ultra. For timeline and rationale details see the Ultra Project page. For migration help see Ultra Organisations Quick Start guide. 1. What
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Teams meetings provide a Live Transcript feature that creates a downloadable record of audio as text, with speaker attribution. You should be aware of the following: There is no way to technologically restrict students starting / downloading a copy of a Teams meeting Live Transcript during a Teams meeting. Once started, a text transcription of audio with speaker attribution will
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Privacy Please be aware of the following privacy advice when using Padlet: Padlet must not be used to collect, store or share sensitive or personal information or content which may infringe copyright laws. If you are unsure about your padlet content, seek guidance from IMPs. When using the university licence, the default privacy setting is
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