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Support and training for MS Teams

Microsoft 365 Archived, Teams Archived

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 Microsoft’s own Teams help & learning support guides. Please […]

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Managing a Team for collaboration activities

Microsoft 365 Archived, Teams Archived

This article is written for staff managing a team space, it advises using Channels to provide dedicated spaces within a Team for collaboration and meetings between students. See the Microsoft video Introduction to Channels for a quick overview of channels functionality. Setting up Channels: Please note, all Team spaces have a ‘general’ channel: cannot be renamed, reordered or deleted. can be open for all to post, or restricted

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Recording live online sessions: What do I need to know?

Blackboard Collaborate Archived, Learning Capture Archived, Teams Archived

Important: Teams recordings are no longer saved in Stream Classic. Instead they are saved in Stream (on SharePoint). Recordings can be accessed via the “Recordings” 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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MS Stream: Edit Your Video Transcript for Captioning

Microsoft 365 Archived, Microsoft Teams

Important: Stream (Classic) has been replaced with Stream (on SharePoint). To find out more about migration from Stream Classic to Stream on SharePoint please visit DTS’ page Stream on SharePoint. Stream is no  longer used for storing Teaching and Learning video content. T&L video content for 2022/23 onwards should be stored in Yuja. Stream Groups will not

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Blackboard Collaborate: monitoring attendance

Class Collaborate, Reports and Statistics Archived

The Session Attendance Report provides an overview of when attendees joined and left Collaborate sessions. It also gives you an idea of how long attendees were present in the session on average. Go to Control Panel > Course Tools > Blackboard Collaborate Ultra and select ‘All Previous Sessions’ or ‘Sessions in Range’. For the session

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EMA Integration: Exams

Assessment & Feedback Archived, EMA Integration Archived, Managing Assessment Archived, Take Home Exams Archived

It is possible to send exam marks direct from Blackboard to RISIS for Online Exams. To trigger the Integration To integrate Exam records (sequence numbers starting with 800) which already exist in RISIS, you need to go into RISIS and toggle the Ready flag: Once the module has been flagged if you add new Exam records, these will be integrated into Blackboard

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Mode of Submission: Blackboard Assignment (rolling deadlines)

Blackboard Assignment Archived, RISIS and Blackboard Integration

RISIS Mode of Submission Use for What’s created in Blackboard Students submit to Channel for feedback WC08 Bb assignment (rolling deadlines) Blackboard Assignment (rolling deadlines) Weighted Total column Blackboard Assignment Blackboard Assignment For use where students will be submitting work via a Blackboard Assignment, but the deadline is not the same for all students on

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