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®)

Setting up live online sessions via Outlook or Teams calendar

The guidance below relates to setting up live online sessions. Before setting up ‘Scheduled meetings’ for live online sessions, you should plan What to tell students. Naming conventions for sessions. Please note: Live online sessions can be scheduled via your Outlook calendar or from your Teams calendar. Instructions for both options are given in this […]

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Padlet: Acceptable use

Privacy Please be aware of the following privacy advice when using Padlet: Padlet must not be used to collect, store or share sensitive or personal information or content which may infringe copyright laws. If you are unsure about your padlet content, seek guidance from IMPs. When using the university licence, the default privacy setting is

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MS Teams: Making a recording

Important: Please refer to the Policy for the Recording of Teaching and Learning Activities (Learning Capture) This policy provides information on the overarching expectations for the use of Learning Capture and how recordings can be used and shared with students, plus the key legal and data protection considerations. Transition from Stream (Classic) to YuJa: All video

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Blackboard: integrating with third party tools

Introduction Blackboard is able to integrate with a wide range of other web tools Turnitin is the most widely used of these integrations. Others include Gradescope and Talis. There are also integrations with certain subject-specific tools such as Mobius (Maths) or to web-based content licensed by Schools from commercial publishers. What happens when I need a

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Recording Tools available to university staff

Screencasts Depending on the type of screencast you wish to record, you will need to choose an appropriate recorder.  This article includes reference to tools which are available via the University’s Microsoft Office subscription, or provided by third parties. MS Office tools are free and already available to you – see Office Software on the IT website. Please

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Create accessible content in Blackboard: Getting started with Ally

The Blackboard Ally tool scans the content academics add and upload to Blackboard Learn Ultra, and generates accessibility scores to help identify the content (i.e. Word, PDF, PowerPoint etc. and any content created using text editor within Blackboard Learn Ultra) that could be made more accessible. It also provides guidance on how to fix each

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