Centre for Academic Innovation and Teaching Excellence
Using the Whiteboard during a MS Teams session is a very powerful way to increase engagement and work collaboratively during a Teams meeting or teaching session. There are a range of new features in Teams that help enable this. Within a Teams session, go to the Share tray and then select Microsoft Whiteboard: From there […]
Wordclouds can be a really useful tool for visualising themes within qualitative text datasets quickly and easily. In Higher Education, this approach can also be used to show key words within a text, to visualise student feedback, and to help those with a more visual learning style to engage. A quick search for ‘free Wordcloud […]
Often students will be working on a small group activity during a face to face session or an online class, but it’s more likely they’ll be working independently in their own time. Collaborative activities can be scaffolded within the VLE, including Journals, Blogs or Discussion, while complementary tools can be useful, especially where learning is […]
Warm-up activities in an online environment Warm up activities are short, and often fun, activities designed to encourage students, and prepare them to learn by stimulating their minds (and/or their bodies). Why a warm-up activity? Any kind of engagement with your students will help to build a sense of community and belonging, which is good for […]