Welcome Welcome to the all-new Digital Learning Newsletter. In this and future issues we will share essential news, CDP opportunities, top tips, and new technologies to improve your Digital Teaching, Learning and Assessment practice Essential News Core Principles – Our 7 digital core principles are the foundation for best practice …
From the start of October, learners will no longer be able to enrol themselves on courses, units, or modules. From now staff will need to activly manage access to their LearnZone course pages inline with our Setup core principle. Manage You will need to actively manage access to your digital spaces to …
In this is the first of three blog posts we will outline our seven digital core principles that should be used as a guide to underpin your digital teaching practice. In our two following posts, we will identify how you can effectively apply them to the college’s two main platforms …
Flipgrid has changed its name and is now known as Flip, for those that don’t know Flip is an online video discussion platform from Microsoft that helps teachers see and hear from every learner in class and foster a fun and supportive social learning environment. In Flip, teachers post discussion prompts and …
Introduction At the start of each academic year, lecturers are responsible for managing their Microsoft Team sites. Staff should archive all of the Teams sites used for teaching in 2021/22 with the exception of courses continuing in 2022/23 that include the same students. This is to ensure that students are …
FE LearnZone (Including Turnitin) will be unavailable between Monday 25th and Wednesday 27th July. HE LearnZone will be unavailable on Monday 25th July for essential maintenance. The rollover process itself is undertaken to: Provide continuity for our learners Provide a repository of assessments in line with awarding bodies requirements Clean …
Edpuzzle allows you to create interactive videos that engage and assess your learners. Pick from video content from YouTube, Edpuzzle’s Community, your colleagues, or upload your own. You can even record/screen capture directly into Edpuzzle. Once you have your chosen video simply add quiz questions, images, links, and voiceovers to …
In May*, the Microsoft Educator Center (MEC) is moving to the Microsoft Learn Educator Center. Current MEC users need to link their MEC account with Learn Educator Center to keep all achievements and transcripts from MEC. Although Microsoft states your Education Center achievements will be transferred to the Learn we …
Microsoft has recently launched its Live Captions tool in OneNote. Utilising this new OneNote feature allows users to see close captions in over 100 different languages in real-time. This feature is especially useful for students with additional hearing needs, where English isn’t their native language or those who will find …
Microsoft has added 8 fantastic new features to give you, even more, control over your Teams Whiteboards. The new features include: Aggregated reactions Drag/drop image to Whiteboard from Desktop Locking any object to the canvas Zoom control improvements Saved pen settings between Whiteboards Add photos whiteboards on mobile devices Enhance …
