Category: Teaching Platforms & Apps
Meeting Options Settings – Take Control of Your Lessons!
Are you having issues controlling meetings with students? If so, try tweaking the meeting options. To easily access the ‘Meeting options’ settings click on the ‘dot dot dot’ to reveal the settings. Common Issues ‘Some learners can’t get into the meeting’ – this could be because if learners are ‘Presenters’ …
Quick Glance – Tab-Tastic Ideas for Microsoft Teams
Adding activities and resources to tabs in Microsoft Teams channels is a piece of cake. Why not keep your learners from drifting off by keeping them focuses inside their class team. Here are some ideas for you to get started!
Top Tips: Using Tools in Presenter View
Top Tips – How to Restore a Channel in Microsoft Teams
You can delete channels and restore channels. Watch this short video to find out how.
Quick Glance – FlipGrid
To assist with your Getting Started EdTechDemo Level Up we’ve created this short guide on FlipGrid. Please click on the image below to view the Quick Glance Thank you for watching this short video clip. For more detailed support contact the eLearning team by emailing elearning@loucoll.ac.uk.
Spotlighting in Microsoft Teams Meetings
What? Spotlighting a video is like pinning it for everyone in the meeting. If you’re an organizer or a presenter, you can choose anyone’s video (including your own) to be the main video people see. Why? As a lecturer, you may wish to focus the ‘spotlight’ on specific individuals when …
Quick Tip – Do Learners Keep Talking Over You? Use the ‘Don’t allow attendees to unmute’ option!
You now have the option to prevent students from unmuting. You’ll now see three options. See image below. Make Learners Participants Make sure you go to the ‘Manage Permissions‘ options first and change ‘Who can Present?‘ to ‘Only Me‘. See this blog for help with this: http://blogs.loucoll.ac.uk/learningtechnology/2020/09/30/top-tip-prevent-students-from-sharing-unmuting-removing-others-in-meetings/ When inside a …
Quick Glance – LearnZone Groups, Groupings and Restrictions
Why use groups? You are a teacher in a course where you have several classes and you want to filter your assignments and quizzes so you only see one class at a time. You are a teacher sharing a course with other teachers and you want to filter your assignments …
Quick Tip – Need Help to Complete the Register?
When inside a meeting you can easily download a list of who is in the meeting for later use. When inside a meeting: Open up the Participant List Click the three dots Click Download Attendance List Check inside your computer download folder and open the MS Excel document. Warning: Do this during the …