Upcoming TEL Sessions
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ABC Module Design Workshop
This is a rapid-design workshop developed at UCL and aligned to reflect the terminology in our Curriculum Framework. In this workshop, module teams work together to create a visual ‘storyboard’ outlining the type and sequence of learning and assessment activities required to meet the module’s learning outcomes. Booking information and dates (in addition to the professional development session, CQSD offer self-supporting ABC resources and tailored workshops as requested by programme teams).
Create Learning Activities Using Blogs, Wikis, Journals and Discussion Boards
This introductory hands-on session aims to provide you with the skills to use Blackboard tools to create learning activities in your Blackboard course. Booking information and dates.
Design and Create Engaging Blackboard Courses
This hands-on session provides you with the skills necessary to create an effective Blackboard course by organising, presenting and adding engaging learning content. Booking information and dates.
Designing And Using Rubrics (Academic Staff)
The session aims to equip academic staff with an understanding of the function and purpose of rubrics and how to align their design within Blackboard and Turnitin assessments. Participants will have the opportunity to audit existing rubrics, discuss good practice with designing and use of rubrics for online feedback. Booking information and dates.
How to Interpret a Turnitin Similarity Report
This session is for academic and admin staff. It explains what the matches made in a Turnitin Similarity Report mean and discuss how the Turnitin Similarity Report can be used as a formative tool to support your students with academic writing. Booking information and dates.
Inclusive Design: Accessible Learning Materials
This session is for academic and admin staff. This hands-on session aims to give you the skills to create accessible content in your Blackboard course. It will introduce you to a tool called Blackboard ALLY that can help you review and make your Blackboard course materials more accessible, and show you the automatically generated alternative formats for students. Booking information and dates.
Online Marking and Feedback Using the Blackboard Assignment Tool (Academic Staff)
This session is designed for academic staff in schools moving forward with e-submission, feedback and grading (eSFG) as part of the EMA programme. Booking information and dates.
Online Marking and Feedback Using the Turnitin Assignment Tool (Academic Staff)
This session is designed for academic staff in schools moving forward with e-submission, feedback and grading (eSFG) as part of the EMA programme. Booking information and dates.
Using Apps to Facilitate Student Engagement: Active Learning in the Classroom
We will use a number of widely available and free apps to demonstrate how technology can be used to promote active learning in the classroom and how to use them effectively with your students. Bring your laptop or mobile device to use in the session. Booking information and dates.
Using Webinars For Teaching & Learning Using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
This session is for academic staff. How can you use Blackboard Collaborate, the real-time web conferencing software, to facilitate teaching and learning to students in non face-to-face sessions? This session, explores the ways in which webinars can enhance and extend learning opportunities for students, and looks at effective webinar teaching techniques to help you keep your students engaged and manage sessions. Booking information and dates.