Most third party tool are available under Content Market or Institutional Tools, These tools are also known as LTI Tools (Learning Tools Interoperability®)
Before you start with polls Only meeting owners and presenters can create, manage, and launch polls. Meeting attendees have the ability to respond to polls, but they can’t edit them. Although they use the same platform, Polls are not the same as Microsoft Forms. You should enable Polls in the meeting before you use them. […]
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Breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams Meetings enables the meeting organiser to split an online class into separate groups for discussions, projects, and collaborative work. The guidance below shows you how to set up, run and close breakout rooms in Teams. Before setting up breakout rooms, there are some important things to be aware of: The
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Note: Blackboard provides the central hub for teaching and learning, Teams is supplementary to Blackboard. For guidance about appropriate use of Teams with students, see using Teams for Teaching and Learning. When requesting a Team for use with students, it is recommended that staff remain the Team owner (in most cases). Upon receiving a new Team,
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Privacy Please be aware of the following privacy advice when using Padlet: Do not use Padlet to collect, store or share copyrighted or personal data. If you are unsure about your padlet content, seek guidance from IMPs. When using the university licence, the most secure privacy setting is ‘Org only’, meaning that only users who
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Important: Please refer to the Policy for the Recording of Teaching and Learning Activities (Learning Capture) This policy provides information on the overarching expectations for the use of Learning Capture and how recordings can be used and shared with students, plus the key legal and data protection considerations. Transition from Stream (Classic) to YuJa: All video
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What is Teams? Teams is an online collaboration tool from Microsoft. A ‘team’ is a dynamic workspace that allows members work together and interact in one place. A team is made up of ‘channels’ in which you and your students can: Restrictions on use of Teams for Teaching and Learning Blackboard (or Canvas) must remain the central
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Screencasts Depending on the type of screencast you wish to record, you will need to choose an appropriate recorder. This article includes reference to tools which are available via the University’s Microsoft Office subscription, or provided by third parties. MS Office tools are free and already available to you – see Office Software on the IT website. Please
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The Course Accessibility Report shows The report provides an easy way to see which content items in your course have been flagged with an issue, and to start remediating those issues, direct from the report. The course accessibility report also provides some help with prioritisation, as it shows options such as “Content that’s easiest to
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Blackboard Ally is designed to help make digital content accessible. The tool is integrated into all Blackboard Courses and Organisations. Blackboard Ally for Staff Ally scan the Teaching and Learning content that academics upload to Blackboard Learn Ultra, generate accessibility score and identify the content (Word, PDF, PowerPoint etc. and any content created using text
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