Viewfinder magazine – moving image and sound in education: Advent Calendar #10
December 10, 2022
Today’s Advent ‘gift’ is a resource from Learning on Screen, who are specialists in the use of moving image and sound in education. Their unique services range from On Demand TV and radio, training, copyright advice and online scholarly resources. Last Advent we covered their service Box of Broadcasts and BoB Playlists for recording and collating …
Quiz review options in Moodle: Advent Calendar #9
December 9, 2022
Here are five top tips for getting the review settings right in Moodle Quizzes to allow your students to review and amend their answers, or not, depending on your needs. If you’d like your students to be able to review their answers once they’ve submitted the quiz and be able to amend them before the …
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 …
Timed Moodle Forum posts: Advent Calendar #4
December 4, 2022
Did you know that there’s a feature in Moodle forums that allows you to set a time that a post will be released? This is really handy for limited-time semi-synchronous discussions, or for scheduling Announcements at a particular time and/or date later on, so that you don’t have to log into Moodle at that particular …
Advent calendar #1: Welcome!
December 1, 2022
Welcome to our 2022 Advent Calendar! Over the next 24 days we’ll be offering tips, tricks and even a few little gifts you can paste directly into your course and use… This year we are using Xerte Toolkits for our calendar. There are lots of ways you can use Xerte for interactive features, and in …
Training and drop-in sessions including online marking and face-to-face drop-in
November 8, 2022
Learn something new, or come for a refresher – we’ve got lots of training courses on offer this autumn. They’re aimed to provide you with the support you need at the right time of year. As assessment season hots up (unlike the real season…) there’s new training in marking online. These have been organised with …
Rebranding of Rogō to be called ExamSys
November 7, 2022
The university is rebranding its online e-assessment and examination system, currently called Rogō. It will become known as ExamSys. This will happen on Wednesday 9 November 2022, between 1pm and 4pm, UK time. There may be a small amount of downtime during this period. The system will be upgraded to the latest version 7.5 – …
Using images in teaching
October 10, 2022
We’ve been asked recently about good practice in using images in teaching. Which can you use, how do you prepare them and how do you use them? Copyright Images must all be checked for copyright. Provide your own images (take pictures) or use images that have a Creative Commons licence (include the correct attribution somewhere). The …
How staff can prepare for ExamSys assessments for the new academic year
September 26, 2022
ExamSys is the University’s online assessment system, written within the University, for both informal formative self-assessment quizzes and formal online summative exams. It is used for assessment when a quiz-type format is appropriate. In ExamSys, there are 15 question types. Reports on student performance can be accessed and exported, enabling staff to assess the value …
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 …
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