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My Unit Feedback is a unit survey run at all levels (0, 4 , 5, 6 and 7) and replaces the MUSE survey. It will ask students about their learning experience on each of their units. The feedback received helps you to further build on your areas of good practice and identify any areas for… Read more » about Setting up your ‘My Unit Feedback’ survey
In addition to the usual weekly drop-in sessions that Learning Technologists run for their faculties, we will be running some face-to-face lunchtime drop-ins in FG04 to support staff with any questions during this marking and assessment period. No need to book, just bring along your questions in person to FG04 on the following days and… Read more » about LT Lunchtime drop-in sessions S2
Did you know BU has a licence for LinkedIn Learning? In 2022, BU purchased a campus wide licence for LinkedIn Learning allowing all staff and students to access the suite of 13,000+ courses. And due to its integration with Brightspace, you can embed courses and videos directly into the content area of your unit. If… Read more » about LinkedIn Learning with Brightspace
We had a brilliant series of psychological testing activities around personality traits and team roles during seminars last week with L4 students on the Organisational Behaviour and Responsible Management unit. Students were asked to assess their personality traits using Big Five Personality Model and Belbin Team roles. These tests allowed them to reflect on their… Read more » about Psychological tests week for BABAM Level 4 OBRM students
Have you used the Intelligent Agent tool in Brightspace? Intelligent Agents in Brightspace can assist you by sending an automated email monitoring/tracking when certain criteria are met in your unit, such as: a) when a student hasn’t logged into your unit for x amount of time b) when a student hasn’t submitted an assignment or… Read more » about Brightspace Intelligent Agents – lunchtime drop-in session
Overview Zoom is BU’s recommended platform for online delivery of live lectures, seminar sessions and meetings, available within all Brightspace units from the Communication menu. Zoom provides a number of benefits including a 300 participant limit, up to 50 breakout rooms, unlimited session lengths and the ability to stream video to your attendees. Any recordings… Read more » about Finding Zoom recordings scheduled outside of Brightspace
Quizzes are a great way to engage students, find out where students need further support, and provide an effective mechanism to provide feedback and feedforward to students. In addition, quizzes can be a really useful tool for providing both formative and summative assessments. Online quizzes consist of a series of questions which are completed online… Read more » about Brightspace Quiz Tool – lunchtime drop-in session
Brightspace’s quiz functionality is a really useful tool for running regular formative quizzes on your unit, helping to reinforce key learning points and aiding students in checking their understanding. The quiz tool also lends itself to promoting learning through retrieval learning or retrieval practice. What is retrieval practice? Research shows that learning occurs not just… Read more » about Formative quizzes and retrieval practice
Discussions Tool provides an area for student collaboration. It allows learners to post, read, and reply to messages on different topics, share thoughts about course materials, ask questions, share files, or work with your peers on assignments. Use the Discussions Tool in your unit to: Encourage users to share thoughts on course material with their… Read more » about Discussions Tool – drop-in session in FG04
As educators and innovators, we are always looking for new and interesting ways of harnessing pedagogically sound technologies to support our assessment and feedback activities. Reviewing the methods in which you assess your students can help to keep your unit delivery fresh and engaging, rewarding both yourself and your students with an enriched teaching and… Read more » about Reviewing assessment and feedback practices – resources
