Rather than an assessed presentation in class, students can be asked to record their presentation and submit it to Blackboard; or take part in a live presentation via Teams or Collaborate.
Where a student or marker is experiencing poor internet connectivity this may affect the quality and success of a live presentation, or the upload, display and download of presentation files. Please consider internet connectivity when dealing with presentations online.
What format will the presentation take?
Live online presentation
Via Teams or Collaborate.
See Live online student presentations (TEL website) for advice.
Recorded presentation
Students pre-record their presentation and submit it via YuJa to a Blackboard Assignment.
Please note: to avoid issue with uploading potentially very large files, students should not be asked to submit video files direct to a Blackboard assignment.
Video only
Talking head and/or showing physical object.
e.g. Spoken language test where it is important to be able to verify the speaker’s identity, video diary, video description of physical object.
Recommended format: MP4.
Recommended assignment type: YuJa Blackboard Assignment
Students can
- use their phone to record
- upload their file to YuJa
- then embed the video into a Blackboard assignment submission.
Markers can view the video through Blackboard, in the browser.
Powerpoint Presentation + embedded audio
Slides plus voice - no video.
Recommended format: MP4.
Recommended assignment type: YuJa Blackboard Assignment
Students can
- prepare their presentation in PowerPoint
- export the PowerPoint file to video
- upload their file to YuJa
- then embed the video into a Blackboard assignment submission.
Markers can view the video through Blackboard, in the browser.
Powerpoint Presentation + audio + video
Slides plus voice and video of the presenter.
Recommended format: MP4.
Recommended assignment type: YuJa Blackboard Assignment
Students can
- prepare their presentation in PowerPoint
- export the PowerPoint file to video
- upload their file to YuJa
- then embed the video into a Blackboard assignment submission.
Markers can view the video through Blackboard, in the browser.
Group presentations
Group presentations add some complexity for students in terms of collaborating on a single document, but use of their University OneDrive makes this achievable. Students can set up a Teams meeting to record their presentation. They do not need to have their own Team to do this, although they can request a Teams space to facilitate collaboration on files / recording of presentations.
Only Blackboard assignments support providing the same mark and feedback to a group of students at once.
N.B. Blackboard group assignments require some kind of submission from each Group (even if it’s just a OneDrive or YouTube link) before marking can take place.
Student guidance
Recording a Presentation for submission through Blackboard
Page last updated on September 21, 2022 by andyturner
