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Top Tip – How to link to previous years FE LearnZone & HE LearnZone pages (Rollover)

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 …

Top Tip – Highlighting The Current Topic in LearnZone

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Each section in LearnZone has four buttons under the section title. The lightbulb icon can be toggled on/off by clicking the left mouse button on the icon. This will identify the specific section as the current topic. Highlighting a current topic will mean that section is shown first when entering …

Quick Glance – The LearnZone BLC Plugin for Further Education

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About the Blended Learning Consortium (BLC) The Blended Learning Consortium provides a raft of interactive materials across a wide range of subject areas. The materials that have been developed are aligned to the levels of the course, and the needs of the subject. Using the BLC plugin will allow you …

Quick Glance – Turnitin Feedback Studio – Check Writing Quality Using ETS erater

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ETS e–rater is a form of grammar feedback technology that automatically checks submitted work for grammar, usage, mechanics, style and spelling errors. Watch this short video to learn more about this tool and how to enable this for Turnitin assignments on LearnZone.

Quick Glance – Turnitin Quickmark Manager

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You can create your own QuickMark comments in the QuickMark Manager. This allows you to create class or curriculum-specific marks that may not be part of the sets provided by Turnitin or the account administrator.

Quick Glance – LearnZone Groups, Groupings and Restrictions

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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 …

LearnZone & Microsoft Teams Integration

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The new integration automatically creates Microsoft Teams sites for you to use for DTLA. It uses your existing LearnZone and HELearnZone course pages to create a Teams site of the same name with the addition of a prefix. LZ: for LearnZone Courses HE: for HELearnzone All Teams sites that are …

Recording Online Lectures in Microsoft Teams

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Microsoft teams meetings is a live video conferencing application that can be used for meetings and on lectures and webinars. Below are some video to help you get started using Teams meetings and the different ways you can organise and share them. Here’s how: Recording Meetings using Microsoft Teams & …

The Official LearnZone Learner Guide

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A quick overview of how to find courses on LearnZone for students. You can refer students to this video if they are using LearnZone for the first time. The main takeaways from this guide are: Students must locate their courses through the menu at least once for it to appear …

Using LearnZone Forums for Teaching, Learning & Assessment

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What is a ‘Forum’ activity? The forum activity allows teachers and students to exchange ideas by posting comments as part of a ‘thread’. Files such as images and media may be included in forum posts if this setting has been enabled. The teacher can choose to grade and/or rate forum …