Most third party tool are available under Content Market or Institutional Tools, These tools are also known as LTI Tools (Learning Tools Interoperability®)
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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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. PowerPoint online is a Microsoft Office application that can be used for collaborative and individual work, with options for blank-sheet style collaboration, presentation mark-up, and collaborative presentation
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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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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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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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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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Important: Teams recordings are no longer saved in Stream Classic. Instead they are saved in Stream (on SharePoint). Recordings can be accessed via the “Recordings” folder (automatically created after first recording) in OneDrive or within a Teams Channel depending on how the meeting was created. By default, recordings are set to expire after 90 days. Please
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The Meeting Organiser and Presenters in a meeting have the ability to manage the settings of other participants. During a meeting, you can: Change the role of a individual participant (for example, promote a participant to presenter). Mute all participants. Mute individual participants. Control the ability of attendees to unmute their mics (Meeting Organiser only).
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LinkedIn Learning provides access to a wide range of online training materials. See the DTS page LinkedIn Learning for details of how to login and access these. Linking to LinkedIn Learning materials from Blackboard Currently, the best way to point your students to LinkedIn Learning courses is simply to create Weblinks in your course – see Create a weblink.