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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 […]
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 […]