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Join us for our upcoming session on Effective Strategies for formative feedback using digital solutions and AI tools. This session will explore key strategies for delivering effective formative feedback, focusing on how to enhance student learning and engagement. We will examine the role of digital tools and AI in streamlining feedback processes, ensuring timely and… Read more » about Effective strategies for formative feedback: digital solutions and AI
Do you set group assessments for your students? Do these involve students submitting multiple files? Here are some of the key considerations when planning for groupwork with multiple file submissions: Turnitin doesn’t support group submissions with multiple files If you want group coursework to be submitted via Turnitin, so that you have similarity reports and… Read more » about Group assessments with multiple file submissions
BU has a successful track record of National Teaching Fellows (NTF) and our most recent success was Dr Jonny Branney (NTF 2024). If you are interested in applying for the NTF 2025, please note the details in the link below. Contact Prof. Geli Roushan for the process and approach the existing NTFs: Prof. Debbie Holly,… Read more » about National Teaching Fellow Roadshows
A new update to Brightspace that will be enabled on Monday 14th October will provide a more ‘joined-up’ experience by showing a summary page for quizzes, discussions and external tool (LTI) activities on the page in Content, rather than prompting both staff and students to open the activity in a new window. The new display… Read more » about Brightspace activities to be displayed ‘inline’ in Content
Do you struggle to gauge each student’s grasp of the teaching materials or find it challenging when students hesitate to admit they don’t understand a topic? Do you also feel pressured by the need to keep a uniform teaching pace, despite the diverse learning speeds in your class? Then look no further! This upcoming webinar… Read more » about Strategies for formative assessments with Mentimeter
Dr Jonny Branney, Principal Academic in Nursing & Clinical Sciences, Department of Nursing Science, was delighted to represent Bournemouth University at the UK Teaching Excellence Award Ceremony 2024 in Edinburgh 3rd October 2024, where he received a National Teaching Fellowship! The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) recognises, rewards and celebrates individuals who have made an… Read more » about Another new National Teaching Fellow at BU!
There’s a few steps to remember when logging into teaching spaces and accessing the platforms you need to deliver your teaching, such as the Jisc attendance capture system, Brightspace and Panopto for lecture capture. Checkout our ‘Start of Session’ workflows which provide the most efficient way for you to get set up to start your… Read more » about Managing the start of teaching sessions
As teaching starts in earnest for all faculties, a brief reminder of some of the useful new features of the updated Jisc attendance capture platform: Check-in codes are available two weeks in advance No need to wait until the last minute to get the check-in code for students for your teaching session – you can… Read more » about Jisc attendance capture- highlights
Thank you to those who attended FLIE’s AI summit last week – we hope you enjoyed the presentations and the vibrant discussions that followed. 🙂 Prof Liz Falconer shared how she has been enriching her online course tuition through the use of Harry, her AI chat bot designed to prompt students’ reflective practice through the… Read more » about FLIE AI Summit and upcoming AI sessions
The updated JISC Learning Analytics platform went live on 9th September, redesigned with a more modern user interface and improved functionality and usability for attendance capture and monitoring. This academic year, staff must use Jisc to log student attendance at timetabled teaching sessions (not including optional drop-in sessions) and core supervision sessions on project and dissertation… Read more » about Jisc Attendance capture – Quick recap
