Reflect in Microsoft Teams

Reflect is a check-in app built into Teams that can be used to supplement the pastoral elements of your teaching practice either as general questions about how your learners are feeling or as a way of gauging how they feel about the topics you are covering, the pace and content …

Core Principles: MS Teams

In this is our final core principals blog post, we will outline what you should be doing to apply our seven digital core principles to your Teams sites. For more details and training our Discover pathway on StaffZone: Core Skills: Teams details exactly how you can apply the seven digital …

Core Principles: LearnZone

In this is our second of three blog posts we will outline what you should be doing to apply our seven digital core principles to your LearnZone pages. For more details and training our Discover pathway on StaffZone: Course: 3. Core Skills: LearnZone details exactly how you can apply the …

Digital Learning News November 2022

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 …

Manage access to LearnZone courses

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 …

Core Principles: Overview

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 is now Flip!

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 …

Teams Rollover

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 …

Class Home Page has come to Teams

Microsoft Teams has introduced a new feature to Class teams pages called Home Page. The Class Home Page serves as a dashboard where students can find important class information including links to resources, highlighted documents, engaging content and more; all of which can be edited and arranged to suit your class. …

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