Most third party tool are available under Content Market or Institutional Tools, These tools are also known as LTI Tools (Learning Tools Interoperability®)
In the new academic year 2022/23, DTS will no longer be creating Stream Groups which are associated with a Blackboard Course. Stream content that you’ve already made available to Modules for 2021/22 and earlier will still be visible to students on those modules via their Blackboard course. No action is required to ensure that these […]
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You can record videos in YuJa either directly in your browser, or using the desktop application. You can access either of these from within YuJa, from Create Recording on the top menu. You can choose which tool to use each time you record. Whichever method you use, your recording will be saved in your YuJa
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What is a YuJa channel? YuJa channels are the main way of organising recorded content for a specific Blackboard course. A channel is not a folder, but a way of assigning appropriate permissions in YuJa for the staff and students on a Blackboard course (similar to a course group in Stream). Those permissions will be
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Collaborate annotation tools can be used with shared files and a blank whiteboard. This function allows you to open a slide, image or whiteboard and use the annotation tools to demonstrate your message, you could also allow students to annotate. How do I share Files or Whiteboard From the Collaborate Menu, bottom right, select the Share
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This guide will give you an overview of using Breakout Groups within Blackboard Collaborate Ultra. The following video is a comprehensive guide and looks in greater detail at activities within Breakout groups as well as some different scenarios to think through. It is time stamped for your ease of section selection. Update 2021: It is
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Teams meetings provide a Live Transcript feature that creates a downloadable record of audio as text, with speaker attribution. You should be aware of the following: There is no way to technologically restrict students starting / downloading a copy of a Teams meeting Live Transcript during a Teams meeting. Once started, a text transcription of audio with speaker attribution will
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Invite through calendar The simplest way to make sure that your guest is able to join and have the permissions that they require in the session is to include them on the invitations of the calendar. You can invite them with their personal, or external organisation email address. If they need to present in the
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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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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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