Turnitin Planned Downtime 05/11/16
There will be a planned downtime period for Turnitin Service on Saturday 05/11/16 between 1pm to 6pm. Turnitin service may be intermittently unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period.
Spiral – Ask engaging questions
Description Spiral is a collaborative learning tool that allows students to interact with questions and prompts, without the pressure of being marked in front of their peers. The responses can either be in the form of a short answer or a drawing, which is then submitted for the teacher to …
Quizizz – Quick quizzes using memes
Description Quizizz is an quick and easy tool to create quizzes that students can take part in during classes or at home. Using either their own devices or college devices, students are given the same questions but just in a different order. Depending on whether they get questions right or …
Vidra – Tell a story
Description Vidra is a very quick and easy way of creating a video to explain something using text, images, icons and voice overs. The interface is extremely simple, making it easy for staff or students to create engaging videos in no time at all. [youtube_sc url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axJmv_NwzTc&rel=0″ width=”640″ height=”500″ rel=”0″] Impact On Learners …
3in30 – New for May!
NEW FOR MAY! ‘3in30’ demos – online apps for teaching, learning and assessment Come along to our 3in30 demos of quick and easy apps that you can use in the classroom. Each session will cover 3 free apps in 30 minutes that you can download and start using straightaway with …
Class Dojo – Create avatars, award points
Description Class Dojo is a fun way of engaging a class and giving them an opportunity to create a character to represent them. From simple tasks such as taking attendance to rewarding individual students, groups or the whole class. Using a points based system and each student having their own avatar, Class …
Kick-start your eLearning Project
We are pleased to announce that the eLearning Team has a small amount of funding available for individuals or teams to kick-start their technology based Teaching, Learning and Assessment idea. Proposals can be anything technology related; from software and hardware, to sharing good practice or “students as partners”. If you have …
PowToons – Create animated clips
Description PowToons is an online animated presentation tool that allows users to create animated video clips using a range of templates, images and transitions. The software is simple to use, making it ideal for teachers to create content, as well as being a useful tool for students to create presentations or display a …
Appear.in – Quick and easy video conferencing
Description Video conferencing is notoriously difficult to set up, maintain and use on a regular basis. However, with Appear.in the interface and settings are stripped down to a bare minimum, in order to make video conferencing much easier and simpler to set up. At the moment Appear.in supports up to …
Aurasma – The Augmented Reality App
Description Aurasma is a new concept in the ‘scan for more’ trend that is all over apps and websites. The app bases it’s premise on augmented reality, in where a trigger is scanned and a video, gif, or image then appears as an overlay. As the device moves Aurasma keeps …