Thanks to everyone who has given feedback on the new LearnZone theme. We have now squashed a few bugs and errors that had appeared including; Page load times for staff: This affected teaching staff. You should see a dramatic improvement in speed as you click from page to page. My …
Microsoft Forms is a quick and easy way to create quizzes that give your students instant feedback and marks. Originally designed as a survey tool, Microsoft has added the quiz feature to make it great for assessment both in and out of the class. Not tried a Microsoft Form before? …
Heard of Quizlet? If not, quickly visit the current king of flashcards, mini tests and matching games and come back. Quizlet has added a new feature to their flashcard sets called diagrams. You can now create labelled diagrams for learners to test themselves on (or get them to create there …
PebblePad is an ePortfolio tool that works brilliantly for ongoing student portfolios. Staff are able to create template portfolios or encourage learners to build their own. PebblePad is widely used in the medical and sport sectors, as well as by many universities. But what do our students think? Aimee Skinner …
Who doesn’t love a good infographic? We certainly do and we love to use Venngage to create them. With a range of available templates, you can create quick and easy infographics to display a wide range of data. The uses for this type of display in teaching is only as limited …
A few weeks ago we spoke to a group of students about how they see the systems we use in the college. Although they felt LearnZone (Loughborough college’s installation of Moodle) and other applications served a purpose, students were asking for an easy and informal space to discuss and receive …
A good polling app can help teachers get an insight into how students are feeling about different aspects of their course. Polls can be used to check understanding, assess teaching and learning, ask students anonymously how confident they are about a topic, or simply gain feedback on how a particular …
Following an insightful talk by Matt Bromley on stretch and challenge at our post-Christmas CPD day, the eLearning team came away from the session thinking about some of the technology available to support ‘Hinge Questioning.’ This is the concept of having a key question in a learning sequence in order …
2016 has been a great year for learning technology and after some coffee and cake we have come up with our favourites. All of the tools are free to use across a range of operating systems and devices. Now we bang on all the time about having ‘the right tool …
Description Wizer allows you to create interactive content that consists of a variety of tasks and content. By adding text, videos and images the worksheets can be used to introduce new topics or help explain any previous topic. As well as this, there are a variety of questions that can …
