Most third party tool are available under Content Market or Institutional Tools, These tools are also known as LTI Tools (Learning Tools Interoperability®)
Blackboard Collaborate will be retired on Monday 23rd June 2025. While the tool itself will no longer be available, we’ve ensured that you can still access your past session recordings. Access to a recording depends on when it was made. Recordings made before August 2023 These recordings are accessible via the Recordings Library link in […]
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Microsoft Forms is an online survey and quiz tool from Microsoft, available to the whole University and managed/supported by DTS. If using the tool for teaching & learning, CQSD TEL can provide support and guidance. The following guide will help you get started: Accessing MS Forms Creating a new Form or quiz Sharing a Form Viewing
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Microsoft Teams meetings is a web conferencing tool. For a quick tour see: Teams meetings: Interface overview How to use this checklist This checklist is designed to be a quick guide to help you get started with Microsoft Teams Meetings for teaching. The checklist includes links to useful resources and tools. Please use this checklist
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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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Blackboard courses have a file storage limit, to help you keep within that limit there are restrictions on uploading files of a particular files size or file type, see our guide Blackboard File size limits. If video files have previously been directly uploaded into your Blackboard course, you can move them to Yuja (our dedicated
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Create your YuJa account YuJa accounts are created via the integration with Blackboard. To set up your account: Link YuJa to your new Blackboard modules
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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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