In order to access marked student work, External Examiners need to be enrolled onto the relevant Blackboard modules. In addition, it is recommended that Departments make use of a Blackboard organisation to provide External Examiners with essential information, and as a way of sharing draft exam papers. Typically, Departments have one organisation for UG programmes […]
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RISIS Mode of Submission Use for Whatâs created in Blackboard Students submit to Channel for feedback VG01 Video assessment (Group) Video assessment (Group) Blackboard Assignment Blackboard Assignment (via YuJa) Blackboard Assignment This option should be used where students work in groups, and are required to submit a video file. Students upload the file to YuJa
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RISIS Mode of Submission Use for Whatâs created in Blackboard Students submit to Channel for feedback VA01 Video assessment Video assessment (Individual) Blackboard Assignment Blackboard Assignment (via YuJa) Blackboard Assignment This option should be used where students are required to submit a video file. Students upload the file to YuJa then embed this into their
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RISIS Mode of Submission Use for Whatâs created in Blackboard Students submit to Channel for feedback MC06 Gradescope Coursework Group presentation / performance Weighted Column Gradescope Gradescope For use where any type of Gradescope assignment is being used for coursework. Further guidance Gradescope
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The School Leader role in Blackboard is an administrator role designed for SDTLs, DDTLs, SDATs and other senior School staff, to enable you quickly and easily to access any course in your School or Department. Accessing courses Once assigned the role, you will see the Admin option on the Blackboard Menu. Navigate to this tab
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See DTS information regarding Class Notebook before committing to use. The information in this article is correct at the time of writing. TEL can provide initial orientation but not ongoing support for Microsoft products (please contact DTS for ongoing queries). OneNote and Class Notebook are a Microsoft Office application that can be used for collaborative
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What is Microsoft Forms? Microsoft Forms is an online survey/quizzing platform that is available via Office 365 apps. It can be used for student polling, word clouds, Q&A, Likert ratings, MCQs.. there is a wide range of question types. These questions can be deployed within or outside of scheduled teaching. For example, students can access
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Teams integrates with Microsoft 365 accounts; queries should be directed to Digital Technology Services in the first instance (DTS@reading.ac.uk). Technical support and an introduction to Microsoft Teams and Office 365 tools is provided by Digital Technology Services (DTS). To support the use of Teams in Teaching and Learning, CQSD TEL have authored an index of Microsoft Teams guides on this site referring to Microsoftâs own Teams help & learning support guides. Please
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This article is written for staff using Channels to provide dedicated online spaces for collaboration and meetings between students. See the Microsoft video Introduction to Channels for a quick overview of functionality. Setting up Channels: Please note, all Team spaces have a âgeneralâ channel: cannot be renamed, reordered or deleted. can be open for all to post, or restricted so that only owners can post messages to the general channel.
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Important: Teams recordings are no longer saved in Stream Classic. Instead they are saved in Stream (on SharePoint). Recordings can be accessed via the âRecordingsâ folder (automatically created after first recording) in OneDrive or within a Teams Channel depending on how the meeting was created. By default, recordings are set to expire after 90 days. Please
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