The eagle eyed amongst us would have noticed we have now added dates and booking links for a majority of RDP sessions taking place from January onwards. Not attended any researcher development sessions yet? See what your fellow PGRs are saying this year via our feedback survey. It’s never too late to start, you can use… Read more » about RDP sessions from January – June 2021 are now open for bookings
Teaching and Learning
Sharing templates and themes in Mentimeter
Did you know you can share Mentimeter templates and themes with your colleagues? You might have a presentation template that is used by several members of the teaching team across your department, or you may have created a theme that your colleagues would like to utilise. Mentimeter’s new Groups functionality means you can now create… Read more » about Sharing templates and themes in Mentimeter
Brightspace analytic workshop resources
If you missed our recent Faculty workshops on Monitoring engagement with Brightspace analytics, you can catch up with all the resources on the Workshops and Drop-ins page of the Brightspace Staff resources area. In the workshops, we demonstrated where you can find analytics reporting within your Brightspace unit and some of the benefits of utilising… Read more » about Brightspace analytic workshop resources
Planning for Semester 2
Have you started thinking about planning your teaching for Semester 2? Here are some of the ways in which FLIE can support you with some useful reminders of some of the steps, and the tools and resources at your disposal. Plan out your unit The Digital Pedagogies Framework has been developed to support staff at… Read more » about Planning for Semester 2
Creative ways to use Padlet
Padlet works like an online sheet of paper onto which people add content including images, videos, documents, text or links to external resources. Students and staff can then organise the content on the page and engage with it through comments and reactions (likes, votes, stars and grades). This means Padlet works particularly well for… Read more » about Creative ways to use Padlet
Helping students understand assessment and feedback
How can you help your students to understand their assessment and feedback? The Assessment and Feedback toolkit provides lots of resources on some of the tools and strategies to align your assessment and feedback practices within BU policy. And now FLIE have produced this new ‘at-a-glance’ guide to support academic staff in implementing some of… Read more » about Helping students understand assessment and feedback
Brightspace online quizzes FAQs
Are you thinking about using online quizzes for assessment? Using the Brightspace quiz tool can bring several benefits, such as reducing the administrative burden, reaching large cohorts, and providing some basic analytics around question and response statistics. Here we answer some of the frequently asked questions around online quizzes to help get you started. Creating… Read more » about Brightspace online quizzes FAQs
Formative feedback activities
At this point in the semester you might find these examples, from the BU Assessment & Feedback Toolkit, timely and useful. Formative assessment is a formative task/assessment which is developmental for students’ learning but does not contribute to credit marks. There are many ways in which to engage students in formative feedback activities that help… Read more » about Formative feedback activities
Zoom security improvements and useful tips
From the 17 November our default recommendation for Zoom sessions will include enabling authentication and using Waiting Rooms, this means students will need to sign-in to join sessions. This change brings in a number of benefits: Improved security as Zoom sessions are restricted to only allow members of the University to join Students will join… Read more » about Zoom security improvements and useful tips
Daily LT drop-ins continue
Throughout November your Learning Technologists will continue to be online daily at 11am every week day. These sessions are run via Zoom and can be accessed via the Brightspace Staff Resources online drop in pages. Simply click on the link in the table on the day between 11-11.30am. You might need some help setting up an… Read more » about Daily LT drop-ins continue
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