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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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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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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