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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Important: If you are unable to install YuJa desktop app for a technical reason, please raise a support ticket via Self Service Portal and consider using “YuJa Browser Capture Studio” in the mean time. Content on this page: Installing the YuJa desktop app on a personal computer: Installation of the YuJa desktop app requires “Admin
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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. Those permissions will be updated as membership of the Blackboard course
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This article refers to a third party free/freemium tool. Please refer to University guidance for considerations when using third party apps for teaching and learning. What is Mentimeter ? Mentimeter is a quizzing/polling app, it may be referred to as a Student Response, Audience Response or Classroom Response System. You can use live polls, word clouds and open
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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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The information in this article is correct at the time of writing, please check our TEL Blog for the latest information on Technology at the University of Reading. Office365 is a collection of applications available as part of your University subscription and available via DTS. Availability: Key features: Benefits: Considerations and limitations: Copyright information and liabilities
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This article refers to a third party free/freemium tool. Please refer to University guidance for considerations when using third party apps for teaching and learning. What is Kahoot! ? Kahoot! is a game-based online quiz platform. Kahoot’s main option is to run live real-time quizzes with students. It’s quizzes and learning games, “Kahoots!”, are user-generated multiple-choice
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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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