Third Party Tools

Most third party tool are available under Content Market or Institutional Tools, These tools are also known as LTI Tools (Learning Tools Interoperability®)

Teams meeting Live Transcript

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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Tools for Learning Activities: OneNote and Class Notebook

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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Polls in Microsoft Teams

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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Support and training for MS Teams

Teams integrates with Microsoft 365 accounts; queries should be directed to Digital Technology Services in the first instance (DTS@reading.ac.uk). Technical support and an introduction to Microsoft Teams and Office 365 tools is provided by Digital Technology Services (DTS). To support the use of Teams in Teaching and Learning, CQSD TEL have authored an index of Microsoft Teams guides on this site referring to Microsoft’s own Teams help & learning support guides. Please

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How to request a Team for Teaching and Learning

Note: Blackboard provides the central hub for teaching and learning. Teams is supplementary to Blackboard and must not be used for: Core learning content,  Essential academic module communications (do not use Teams calendar or channels for essential module communications), Summative assessment submission and feedback,  Copyrighted materials, for examples scanned articles made available in the Talis Reading List.  When requesting a Team for use with

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Managing a Team for collaboration activities

This article is written for staff managing a team space, it advises using Channels to provide dedicated spaces within a Team for collaboration and meetings between students. See the Microsoft video Introduction to Channels for a quick overview of channels functionality. Setting up Channels: Please note, all Team spaces have a ‘general’ channel: cannot be renamed, reordered or deleted. can be open for all to post, or restricted

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