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e-portfolios for teaching and learning

What is an e-portfolio? An e-portfolio is a digital presentation of student learning experiences and/or evidence of learning achievements, across a single or multiple modules, projects or an entire programme. The digital presentation of student learning experiences and achievements may include: Written or audio-recorded reflections Evidence of attainment, such as checklists or practitioner signatures Images […]

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Editing with YuJa

YuJa (Learning Capture)

How to use the YuJa video editor The YuJa video editor is a browser based system that can be accessed through a YuJa link on your Blackboard module. Clicking the YuJa link will take you to your YuJa Media Manager. Locate and hover over the video you want to edit and you will see a

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Transitioning from Stream to YuJa

YuJa (Learning Capture)

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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YuJa for Personal Capture

YuJa (Learning Capture)

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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Yuja: Publishing to the Channel for a Blackboard course

YuJa (Learning Capture)

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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Class Collaborate Annotation Tools and Whiteboard

Class Collaborate

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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Blackboard Collaborate: Using Breakout Groups

Class Collaborate

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 meeting Live Transcript

Microsoft Teams

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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Inviting Guests to a Teams meeting

Microsoft Teams

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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Tools for Learning Activities: OneNote and Class Notebook

Third Party Tools

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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