Ofsted: What’s working well in remote education
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Hints and tips for remote teaching
Jisc has taken the time to ask Teaching practitioners for their remote teaching tips. There is some great advice amongst the videos below you can watch them here or follow this link to their Remote Teaching Tips playlist on youtube.
Quick Glance – Turnitin Feedback Studio – Check Writing Quality Using ETS erater
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
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.
Microsoft Whiteboard in Teams for your online lessons
As we are once again having to work and teach from home online, you may miss having access to your classroom whiteboard. With Microsoft Whiteboard you can now utilize an interactive Whiteboard via Office 365, you can also install the App onto your computer or laptop and access Whiteboard directly …
Microsoft Teams Help & Training Videos
Microsoft have put together this really useful collection of Help and Training videos for Teams. If you are just starting out using Teams for your online learning and meetings or an avid user wanting to find out how to do something in particular, for example how to manage meetings or …
Quick Glance – NEW!! Breakout Rooms
Creating meaningful connections can be difficult in larger group settings. Breakout rooms allow organizers to divide the meeting into sub-groups to facilitate discussions and brainstorming sessions. We are excited to share that Breakout rooms are generally available in Microsoft Teams today Contact the eLearning Team if you have any further …
Formating Conversations & Chat in Teams
In the Microsoft Teams video below you can learn about formatting your conversations and chat in Teams. Including Announcements and adding Headlines with colour and images. To find out more click the link to the video below:
Present Live in PowerPoint
Let your students engage and interact with your PowerPoint presentation as it happens with ‘Present Live’. Students can join the Live presentation via Computer or Mobile device with features including live subtitles which transcribe while you speak these can then be translated into in their preferred language and has more …
Creating a Quiz in Forms
We take you through how to create a Quiz from scratch in Forms within Office 365, going through all of the different question options. Quizzes in Forms are perfect for Formative assessment checking students’ knowledge and understanding. With a good variety of question types, easily adjustable and customisable theming and …