Online Delivery
Quick wins for designing online delivery
Struggling to think of ways to teach online other than PowerPoint slides and speech? This session goes through quick and easy-to-follow ideas for student-centric online delivery. Slides
Designing and creating digital portfolios
This session helps colleagues to understand the uses and benefits of portfolios. It is not designed for colleagues who already have a portfolio design and want help to start building it.
Moving away from didactic lecturing
In this session we explore ways to make teaching and learning an active experience, whether on-line or not. This session has been designed in response to feedback from colleagues during the Covid pandemic, who felt that activities used in physical classrooms were impossible to replicate successfully in an online environment.
Bringing digital back into the classroom
This session will look at activities that you may have used online during 2020/21 that can also be used effectively in face-to-face sessions. We will look at a range of different activities and tools, and also cover any important differences and considerations when using them in a face-to-face setting.
Choosing the right tool for you
In this session we will be looking at the tools that we have available and provide a comparison on which tool is best for different situations. If you are unsure about what is available, feel overwhelmed about the number of tools available and/or don’t know which tool is best for the situation then this session is for you. We will focus on video conferencing, quiz tools and collaborative group work.
“Flipping L” – getting started with Flipped Learning
In this session we will look at how you can ‘Flip’ your teaching to make your time with your students more effective. We’ll cover topics including:
- what Flipped Learning is and where it is being used;
- the Flipped Learning spectrum;
- how to encourage engagement from students;
- setting expectations of students; and,
- the design (and re-use) of resources for Flipped Learning.
This will also provide an opportunity to participate in a Flipped Learning experience, with a short resource and activity being shared with participants in advance of the session.
Blackboard
Preparing your Blackboard sites for the upcoming academic year
This session will guide you through preparing your Blackboard sites for the upcoming academic year. It will include general housekeeping tips, a reminder of the Threshold Standards for Supporting Learning with Technology, and ensuring that content is accessible.
Teaching online: Blackboard Collaborate basics
This session introduces Blackboard Collaborate, a webinar tool integrated with Blackboard which can be used to deliver lectures, seminars and tutorials online. Also, see our Guide to Collaborate
Designing effective Blackboard sites
This session will give you tips and advice on laying out your materials to aid the user experience and ideas of how to add resources so that they are more interactive.
Teaching using webinars for beginners
This session looks at how to use Zoom and Blackboard Collaborate for beginners, suitable for new starters or anyone that would like to refresh their knowledge on delivering via webinars.
Zoom
Teaching online: Zoom basics
This session introduces Zoom, an online webinar tool which can be used to deliver lectures, seminars and tutorials online. Also, see our Guide to using Zoom
Panopto
Panopto lecture capture
A live online training session is being offered to cover the basic features of Panopto. Slides
Panopto through Blackboard
This training session will cover how to create, upload and manage recordings through Blackboard, as well as looking at how students can use Panopto to submit their own videos for assessment. Slides
Panopto – Advanced Features
Panopto enables videos to be recorded and shared with your students through Blackboard, but there are other things that it can do beyond recording your screen. Come along to this session to find out more about how some of the more advanced features can be used to support your teaching and your students’ learning. Slides
Managing video content (Panopto)
This session will show you the best way to manage your Panopto video content. The session will cover editing, adding quizzes and embedding YouTube content in your Panopto videos.
Screencast-o-Matic
Pre-recording lectures and other content
This session introduces making a screencast, or short recorded video of what you do on your computer screen, using a tool called Screencast-o-Matic. Screencasts can be useful for making recordings for your Blackboard sites that students can view in their own time.
LinkedIn Learning
Supporting your students with LinkedIn Learning
This session will look at how LinkedIn Learning can be used to boost students’ employability with course related content, using learning pathways and the curator role.
PebblePocket
Using the PebblePad app: PebblePocket (part 1)
Pebble Pocket Part One is an opportunity to discuss the benefits of using the PebblePocket add-on to Pebblepad to allow students to quickly create posts, reflections and videos on the go. The session focuses on ways for students to engage with their personal, professional and academic development through placement experiences, field trips, remote locations with no WIFI and group work tasks. PebblePocket Part 2 covers the deployment of the app.
Using the PebblePad app: PebblePocket (part 2)
In Pebble Pocket Part 2, we will look at the mechanics of the tool and is designed for those who want to see the features and functionality of the PebblePad companion App, PebblePocket. The session will cover what the App looks like to use and how it interacts with PebblePad and ATLAS.
PebblePad
Moving to online portfolios (creating portfolios and workbooks in PebblePad)
This session will be useful for those unfamiliar with PebblePad and have paper-based portfolios who are interested in moving onto an online platform. It will cover the basics of PebblePad and the differences between portfolios and workbooks.
Setting up PebblePad (ATLAS) in Blackboard to manage online portfolios
This session covers how to setup an ATLAS workspace to manage PebblePad portfolios and workbooks. It will focus on linking a Blackboard site to an ATLAS workspace.
Assessment and Feedback
Assessment
Making assessments that work well online
While some assessment practices work as well online as they do in traditional face-to-face delivery, there are practices that are particularly suited to online use. This session will explore some of these practices and how they can be achieved slides.
Feedback
Online assessment: accessing, grading and providing feedback to students
This session will explore the grading workflow in Blackboard from accessing, marking and providing feedback on student work submitted online through to releasing feedback and marks to students.
Designing efficient and engaging online feedback
This session will focus on designing efficient and engaging feedback online, showcasing online tools that can be used to provide feedback during the marking process.
Approaches to online feedback
This session will explore a range of tools and approaches to providing feedback to students online.
Tests
Blackboard Tests (MCQs) for exams
This session demonstrates how Blackboard can be used to deliver exams using multiple choice and other objective questions. It covers authoring questions, setting and deploying the exam, and supporting students.
Designing and delivering Blackboard Tests
This session promotes the practical benefits of automated testing and feedback in Blackboard, along with best practice guidance for using different types of test questions available in Blackboard and tips on writing effective objective questions and feedback to test a range of cognitive skills.
Plagiarism
Understanding Turnitin
This session will focus on using Turnitin as a formative learning tool to assist students in developing their academic and writing skills. Tips on articulating the purpose of Turnitin to students will be provided, including help interpreting scores and when and why a ‘higher’ score might be expected.
Contract cheating
This session will discuss contract cheating, not just in the sense of paying someone to produce a bespoke piece of work, but also where students post and share assessment briefs online and encourage others to contribute to the solution.
Student Engagement
Student engagement with online learning
This session introduces a range of tools and approaches to both foster and measures how students are engaging with online learning. Additionally, the session explores how to obtain feedback from students on their online learning experience.
Fostering and measuring student engagement
This session will introduce a range of tools and approaches to both foster and measure how students are engaging with online learning. Slides
Designing and delivering effective and engaging screencasts
This session introduces the pedagogically designed screencast and draws together techniques that support the planning and design of an effective screencast for student engagement.
Measuring student engagement
This session will look at a range of tools and statistical reports to help you reflect on and measure how students engage with online learning.
Student engagement with online learning
This session introduces a range of tools and approaches to both foster and measures how students are engaging with online learning. Additionally, the session explores how to obtain feedback from students on their online learning experience.
Exploring digital capability: Introducing the Jisc Discovery Tool
Possessing the necessary Digital Skills for their studies and future employment is vital for students and graduates, but understanding the possible range of skills, identifying which are relevant and finding out how and where to develop them is a big challenge. In this session we’ll look at the Jisc Discovery Tool that can assist students in this process. We will also look at how staff can use it to better understand and develop their own digital skills.
Student engagement with online learning
This session introduces a range of tools and approaches to both foster and measures how students are engaging with online learning. Additionally, the session explores how to obtain feedback from students on their online learning experience.
Delivering engaging webinars
This session will cover how to host engaging webinars using a variety of tools and techniques.
Digital recognition: certificates and badges
A Digital Badge recognises student achievement, learning and skills, in a more fine-grained way than module grades, which can be shared externally e.g. with potential employers. In this session, we look at what a digital badge is, explaining potential benefits to users and course delivery teams. There are a demonstrations of a digital badging/certification solution which is free to use and a version which is embedded in Blackboard. The session is suitable for all colleagues and will be of special value to colleagues who have heard of digital badges and certificates but don’t know how to start with them or their value to the student experience.
Online tools in the classroom
This session will cover a range of tools to enhance your teaching practice. These are tools that you may have used in online teaching but which can also be used in your face-to-face teaching. We will be covering collaborative tools (such as Google apps, Padlet and Whiteboard) and polling tools (such as Socrative, Turning Point, interactive PowerPoint and Kahoot).
Collaboration
Online Collaborative working: Google Drive, Office 365, Bb Discussion Boards
A Digital Badge recognises student achievement, learning and skills, in a more fine-grained way than module grades, which can be shared externally e.g. with potential employers. In this session, we look at what a digital badge is, explaining potential benefits to users and course delivery teams. There are a demonstrations of a digital badging/certification solution which is free to use and a version which is embedded in Blackboard. The session is suitable for all colleagues and will be of special value to colleagues who have heard of digital badges and certificates but don’t know how to start with them or their value to the student experience.
Using Office 365 in teaching and learning
Are you trying to facilitate group work which you would once have done with a flipchart pad, box of felt tips and some blu-tak? Do you want your students – on or off campus – to do something a bit different from a hand drawn grid on a sheet of paper which they all contribute to? Then this is for you! We will look at how Office 365 – which all staff and students have through SHU – can transform group work and facilitate pre- in- and post- session activity.
Accessibility and Wellbeing
Blackboard Ally
Blackboard Ally is a tool that helps you make your course content in Blackboard accessible to all users. It does this by automatically scanning course content and providing accessibility scores and feedback on how to improve the accessibility of the content. It also generates alternative accessible formats for uploaded files that users can download for their personal use.
Approaches to accessible mathematics
This session will look at some possible ways that materials with equations in them can be made more accessible. It will look at the equation editor in Word and PowerPoint, tools to generate equations that work with screen readers, creating accessible maths in Blackboard, and tools that students can use for themselves. There will also be opportunities to share your own practice and discuss other approaches.
Designing accessible learning content
This session will outline the importance of web accessibility, and demonstrate tools and provide top tips to help you increase the accessibility of your course content and Blackboard sites.
Automatic transcripts from recordings
In this session we provide and introduction to using Digital Learning solutions to provide automated transcriptions of recordings. We offer suggestions as to the suitability of solutions in different situations, but strongly encourage participants to come along with scenarios and examples of where they might use or encourage students to use these facilities so that we can give authentic examples. Slides
Digital wellbeing
Using insights from STEER (student engagement, evaluation and research) and staff HIVE surveys this session will focus on how you can promote your own and your students’ wellbeing while teaching and learning online.