With the abundance of Teams sites across the organisation it can sometimes be difficult for you and your students to find the Team/s you are looking for. We have therefore created a quick guide for best practice when creating, naming categorising and structuring Teams sites. Creating Teams To create a …
Chats, especially with more than one other person conversation, can often move on quickly, and sometimes the opportunity to reply directly to a message has passed and your reply can become out of context. AAAAAAArgh frustrating! Well don’t worry with the NEW Reply feature you can include the original message …
One of the most requested features for breakout rooms is the ability to create rooms in advance as part of creating a meeting and now you can. See our Quick glance video to find out how. Support As always the Digital Learning team are here to help, contact us : …
Microsoft has just completely updated their Teams Whiteboard software the video below is a step-by-step tutorial on how to use the NEW features. The updated Whiteboard in Teams meetings includes real-time collaboration, Whiteboard templates, adding images and reactions to Whiteboards, and lots more. These new features in Microsoft Teams will …
We are pleased to announce the launch of our Digital Learning Pathways to support your Continuing Professional Development. For those who missed our launch event or people who want to take another look, here is the recording. Digital Learning Pathways We have developed six pathways to build your confidence in …
In this tutorial video, we take you through how to enrol and how to unenrol learners on your FE and HE LearnZone course pages. One of the biggest changes that came with the LearnZone rollover this year is that learners will only be able to enrol themselves on courses, units or, modules during September. After this initial period, …
The immersive classrooms are equipped with speakers, a standard webcam and microphone mounted on the projector, and a motorised camera controlled via a remote. As part of an online Teams lesson these can be used alongside other online activities and tools to engage learners at home and in-class activities such …
All of the Teams site used for teaching in 20/21 should now be archived unless the course is continuing with the same students for 21/22. This is to ensure that students are not accessing pages unsupervised and to preserve the team for future access if it is needed. Archived teams …
Blackboard Ally is an accessibility tool that is integrated into our LearnZone and HE LearnZone sites. Ally provides a raft of tools to help staff ensure their online resources are accessible and the option for students to access these in a variety of formats. Alternative formats Ally automatically creates alternative …
In this top tips video below we are going to look at how you can easily set up a link to a specific page, section or deep-link to individual activities and resources from previous years versions of FE or HE LearnZone. This is a great way to provide continuity for your learners, without needing to copy resources as you can just link to them. This includes resources such as PowerPoint, Word document, PDFs as well …
