An Introduction to Engage
March 4, 2024
The Engage Platform, delivered by Echo360, contributes to active learning within the University. Not only does it make audio and visual recordings of teaching sessions, it also offers engagement tools, learning analytics and the ability to live stream. Engage does much more than just record lectures. Why should I use Engage? There are several good …
Easily transferring your Teams recordings into Echo360 Engage: Advent Calendar #6
December 6, 2022
Following on from yesterday’s post about Echo360 Engage, today Terry Willmer, Echo360 guru, tells us how to make your Teams recordings available to your students through Echo360 Engage. Terry shows how to easily copy recordings from a Teams folder to your personal OneDrive, and how to upload videos from your Recordings folder (or any other …
An academic’s guide to Echo360 Engage in Moodle: Advent Calendar #5
December 5, 2022
I’ve had a lot of queries about the easiest and quickest way to use Echo360 Engage videos in Moodle. So I got together with David Achtzehn, a lecturer in the Business School, and we got to grips with the most straighforward way to include videos in your Moodle module. It’s possible once set up to …
Three simple ways to engage students in lectures
September 20, 2022
A common question that we get asked is about are the best ways to poll students in face-to-face lectures, or seek short one-word or short-phrase answers. There are many third-party tools out there but to use those, you will need to evaluate them with regard to data protection, security, accessibility, sustainability, archivability and suitability. It’s …
Changes to where Teams meeting recordings are stored
June 27, 2022
Next Monday 4th July, is now confirmed as the date when changes will take place to where Teams meeting recordings are stored. While new meeting recordings will continue to appear in the Teams Chat, they will NOT now be stored in Microsoft Stream. Recordings will appear in your personal OneDrive if: you have created the …
Advent calendar #4: Ways to poll your students
December 4, 2021
Polls and simple quizzes can be used during synchronous sessions (face to face or online) and also asynchronously to support learning by: identifying gaps in learners’ understanding, providing a simple way of actively engaging students in their learning, a minimal form of feedback, stimulate conversation, establish a baseline understanding or opinion that you can then …
Advent calendar #2: How to make a Stream video available to students
December 2, 2021
So you’ve made a recording of yourself wishing your students a seasonal greeting. How best to share it with the students? When staff make recordings of Teams meetings and learning sessions, the recording ends up in Stream. Here’s why leaving them in Stream isn’t usually the best way to make these available to students. Normally, …
A Summer of Moodle #13: Training sessions to help you use Moodle and other technologies
August 28, 2020
A number of training sessions are being run by the Learning Technology Section and colleagues to help staff plan and create online learning for the new academic year. More sessions are added all the time, but currently the following are available, all of which help you use Moodle more effectively, often by linking to other systems. They …
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