Before using this tool ensure you have familiarised yourself with the practical and ethical considerations in the ‘Getting starting with Blackboard AI Design Assistant‘ guide What are Blackboard AI Test and Question banks? The AI Design Assistant can generate Tests and Question banks based on course content and your own prompts. These generated questions are […]
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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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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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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: Unlike a paper portfolio, the use of an e-portfolio requires reliance on underlying tools
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What are Blackboard Organisations and when are they used? Blackboard Organisations are used for supporting student engagement and learning that goes beyond a particular RISIS module. While teaching and learning in Blackboard is mostly delivered through Blackboard courses which represent one or more RISIS modules, students also need access to a range of information which
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This article refers to a third party free/freemium tool. Please refer to University guidance for considerations when using third party apps for teaching and learning. What is Mentimeter ? Mentimeter is a quizzing/polling app, it may be referred to as a Student Response, Audience Response or Classroom Response System. You can use live polls, word clouds and open
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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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This article refers to a third party free/freemium tool. Please refer to University guidance for considerations when using third party apps for teaching and learning. What is Kahoot! ? Kahoot! is a game-based online quiz platform. Kahoot’s main option is to run live real-time quizzes with students. It’s quizzes and learning games, “Kahoots!”, are user-generated multiple-choice
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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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