December 13, 2022, by Helen Whitehead

A pile of Advent ‘gifts’: Advent Calendar #13

A reminder of some of the ‘gifts’ that were on offer last year in our 2021 Advent Calendar. If you missed out – or just forgot about them, you may find just what you need this year!

Games

• The Learning Technologies Crossword
• A Xerte Toolkits-based game to play at Christmas
• Christmas Mix and Match: memory games in Moodle

Using digital tools more efficiently

• Ways to poll your students
• The Windows emoji keyboard and Moodle
•  Q&A: a new student engagement app from Microsoft
• How to create a festive video message in Powerpoint
• Letting students annotate PowerPoint slides during a MS Teams meeting
• Moving files between MS Teams

Resources

•  Avoiding plagiarism this essay season
• The Future of Hybrid Teaching and Learning in HE (Workshop)
• Box of Broadcasts and BoB Playlists

Support

• Digital Drop-in
• Where to get help and what to do when something goes wrong

Moodle Tips

• Adding your profile picture in Moodle
• Monitoring student engagement in Moodle
• Getting it together with Groupings in Moodle
• Have you thought about using Moodle Quiz?

Accessibility

• MediaSpace captions tips and tricks
• Free practical webinars on Accessibility in teaching

UoN Learning Technologies Advent Calendar #13

1. Advent Calendar #1: Welcome!
2. Advent Calendar #2: Habits of Accessible People
3. Advent Calendar #3: How to get an archive of your Twitter data – and close your account
4. Advent Calendar #4: Timed Moodle Forum posts
5. Advent Calendar #5: An academic’s guide to Echo360 Engage in Moodle
6. Advent Calendar #6: Easily transferring your Teams recordings into Echo360 Engage
7. Advent Calendar #7: Timed document release in Moodle
8. Advent Calendar #8: The MHS Faculty Digital Learning Hub 
9. Advent Calendar #9: Quiz review options in Moodle
10. Advent Calendar #10: Viewfinder magazine – moving image and sound in education
11. Advent Calendar #11: Student Engagement Cards resource
12. Advent Calendar #12: Three keyboard shortcuts to quickly make documents more accessible in Word.

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