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Enhancing PowerPoint Presentations

There are many different ways that you can push PowerPoint presentations beyond a simple slide show. Have you considered using animations, branching, SmartArt, multimedia or interesting slide transitions? Here are a few ways that you can enliven your presentations. Zooming in PowerPoint If you want your presentations to look more dynamic try using Zoom in […]

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Attendance Tool in Blackboard

You can add the Attendance feature to a Blackboard module shell to track daily attendance, by recording individual students as present, late, absent or excused. The Attendance feature can then be used as an assessment criterion within the Grade Centre. NOTE: This process is not a substitute for the use of MS Forms to monitor […]

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‘Goodbye, Forms. Hello, Polls’: the latest update to MS Teams

In MS Teams the Forms app is being retired and is being replaced by a new Polls app. Forms will continue as a separate app for surveys, but to add a poll to Teams meetings you will be able to use the new Polls app. By separating these functions Microsoft hope to improve the experience […]