Centre for Academic Innovation and Teaching Excellence
As we resume teaching face to face after 3 years of remote and hybrid teaching, as an academic passionate about making an impact, it’s fantastic to be back in the classroom and lecture halls! Did I just use the word ‘lecture’? It’s 2022, post-covid and it’s become more apparent than ever before, that while it’s […]
Customising the Grade Centre to view student progress at a glance When you have a mix of assessments, such as Turnitin, alongside Blackboard Assignment, Blogs, Journals or discussion, marks are displayed in separate columns in the Grade Centre. If you use mostly Turnitin, then the new analytics dashboard in Turnitin will be a good source […]
Have you ever wondered if a student accessed your Blackboard learning materials? Have students said that they can sometimes get lost and find it hard to find where they got up to? Would you like to be able to turn on a button to help with both of those things? Welcome ’Mark as Reviewed’ Below is a […]
The new Learning Analytics Dashboard in Turnitin can help provide a useful indication into how your students have engaged with a Turnitin assignment. By further examining the Analytics of a Turnitin assignment, you can use the tool to determine where you may need to explore content further with students to aid their learning development. You […]
DMU Replay (aka. Panopto) is utilised at DMU as a policy-supported mechanism to record all instructor-led classroom sessions (lectures). The baseline requirement for such recordings is to record the voice of the presenter and any visual elements that they are presenting – such as PowerPoint slides. DMU Replay recordings give students the opportunity to revisit […]
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 […]
As DMU moves to a block delivery mode, knowledge checks are becoming increasingly important to ensure that we keep students on-track over each seven-week period. One mechanism that can be used to gauge understating is the Blackboard Test but does it always have to be about Multiple Choice Questions? There are a number of different […]
Many of us are curators of digital content or experiences in one way or another. Here we are referring to content curation activities, using digital tools, such as Padlet or Wakelet, among the many others, that are used to support active learning. These tools allow us to use engage multiple modes, including video, audio, images […]
Ranking tasks are active learning activities that “engage the brain in a different way than any other task” (Lasher, 2022); moreover, they are easily adaptable for online and hybrid learning environments. In this post we look at how ranking tasks can be used in different subject disciplines and some of the ways they can be […]
As we head into week 0 and the return of #stafftechtips, let’s look at some of the activities and support available to DMU staff as we start the new academic year. The Virtual Learning Environment Firstly, we have the block/module shell policy. This is designed to promote consistency of student experience and provide a point […]