The LearnZone Rollover Process 2023/24
Essential information about this years 2020/21 LearnZone and HELearnZone rollover.
Category: Teaching Platforms & Apps
Digital Flashcards for Exam Revision
As we are now in the thick of exam season and learners’ revision is well underway, it is worth getting students to utilise Quizlet‘s digital flashcards, a fantastic way to study and build up the memory of keywords and descriptions ready for those exam questions. Students can create their own …
Microsoft Stream update
Upload – Recording – Playlist You may have noticed when visiting Stream (on SharePoint) that it has been updated and at the top, there are now three new buttons. Before we get into what the new buttons can do and some new features within the ever-evolving Stream it is worth …
Turnitin AI Detection
Turnitin has developed a new AI writing indicator that is specifically designed to identify and highlight any AI-generated text within a submitted document. This feature is included as a separate report within the feedback studio. The AI indicator identifies the percentage of none human content within a document. Selecting the …
Public Preview (Early Access) in Teams for new features
You can access new features in Teams quicker by turning on Public Preview (Early Access). We recently blogged about both Polls and new types of Teams meetings, frustratingly some of these features were withdrawn by Microsoft shortly after our posts. We discovered however that you can take advantage of all …
Wooclap
We have recently added Wooclap to our list of authorised learning technologies. Wooclap is a quiz tool in which you create ‘events’ and add a quiz or activity. Question types include multiple choice, matching, poll, Word cloud, images for labeling, audio/video, slides, brainstorms, whiteboards to name a few. With your …
Miro and How the Games Development department is matching Industry
Miro is a creative online collaborative whiteboard platform that enables teams to work effectively together, from brainstorming with digital sticky notes to planning and managing workflows. Miro can be used as an alternative to other Whiteboard apps available and OneNote for its collaborative features. We have been in contact with the cutting-edge …
Best practice for new Stream (on SharePoint)
Since Microsoft migrated Classic Stream to the new Stream on SharePoint, we have noticed a lot of changes and thought it would be good to set out the best practice for new Stream (on SharePoint). Watch the video below or you can find out more below. Creating a centralised folder …
Polls in Teams for quick and effective formative assessment
Microsoft has been making updates to Forms within Teams and the app itself. Microsoft has been slowly updating things in Teams recently, you may have noticed new things appear and then disappear again (the different meeting options being one). Well, now they are changing things in Teams meetings and the …
Essential Stream Migration Update!
How to re-share and embed Navigate to Microsoft OneDrive online in Edge or Chrome Open the Stream Migrated Videos folder Locate the file you wish to share or embed Click on the file name to open the video (which will open in new Stream SharePoint) At the top of the …