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The Meeting Owl 360 is an easy-to-use, plug in and play device for use in a hybrid teaching or meeting environment. It’s a 360-degree camera, microphone and speaker all-in-one. The Owl will capture all the people in the room on video and on microphone, wherever they are in the room. It will automatically zoom in… Read more » about Hybrid events with the Meeting Owl 360
Mentimeter will be delivering a second webinar on Thursday 15th September 13.00-14.00 just for BU, demonstrating some of the more advanced features of the tool with lots of ideas for how Mentimeter can be used in your teaching. These sessions are always very interactive and fun so do come along and learn about some of… Read more » about Mentimeter webinar – Thursday 15th September
Where announcements have been posted in Programme areas over the previous year with Release Conditions (normally for a specific level of study), unless an end date has been set on the announcement, announcements will get sent to new students when they are moved into the Programme areas Level groupings which happens at the start of… Read more » about Check your Programme area announcements
I’m delighted to confirm that applications for Advance HE’s HEA fellowship in the Associate Fellow, Fellow, and Senior Fellow categories are now invited from BU staff. Colleagues can apply through our Advance HE accredited TeachBU programme. The first submission date for this new academic year will be Friday 23rd September 2022. For more information about… Read more » about Applying for Advance HE’s HEA Fellowship this Academic Year?
The Mahara ePortfolio system will be unavailable on 13 September 2022, 08:00 to 17:00 whilst essential maintenance is being completed. Please note that this date has been moved back from the previous planned date of 6 September. If you have any queries or concerns please contact the IT Service Desk. +44 (0)1202 965515 Freephone: 0808… Read more » about Mahara scheduled maintenance – 13 September 2022
Please note that on Friday 9th September we are making a change which may affect how you log into Mentimeter. This change will mean that all Mentimeter accounts registered to BU email addresses will be authenticated via SSO, so that you’ll sign in with your BU IT account. Most staff will already be signing in… Read more » about Changes to how you log in to Mentimeter
Following on from earlier messages and information about the BU Learning Analytics pilot we are pleased to confirm the implementation of the extended pilot. All Level 0 and Level 4 programmes are in scope in Semester 1 2022-23 academic year, with the opportunity to use the following features: Attendance capture – Checkin Unit reporting Student engagement reporting Learning Analytics is intended to give students… Read more » about JISC Learning Analytics training
Did you know that Brightspace has links off to ‘Help’ resources from any page on Brightspace? Clicking on Help in the navbar reveals a drop-down menu: Brightspace help is for students but is available to everyone Brightspace Staff Resources is only available to staff Mobile access is available to everyone. Brightspace Help With the… Read more » about Brightspace Help and the Pulse app
FLIE will be running a series of workshops through September and into semester one to support you with your teaching and learning for the next academic year. All sessions will be online. No need to sign up; links will be made available via our Workshops and Drop ins page or simply click on the links below at… Read more » about Upcoming workshops to support unit preparation
The Chat tool is one of the older Brightspace tools and offers very basic chat functionality which has since been surpassed by other synchronous communication tools like Zoom and MS Teams. A specific flaw in the tool means that when you join a chat you cannot see any messages that have been raised previously so… Read more » about Retiring the Brightspace Chat tool
