Microsoft has been making updates to Forms within Teams and the app itself. Microsoft has been slowly updating things in Teams recently, you may have noticed new things appear and then disappear again (the different meeting options being one). Well, now they are changing things in Teams meetings and the …
Recently a member of the eLearning team was lucky enough to attend the 2013 turnitin conference at the Leeds School of Music. For those who are unfamiliar with turnitin- it is a piece of software for teaching staff that checks academic work for plagiarism, we use it here in the college to check for …
What is a blog? A blog is a term that is derived from the phrase Weblog. Blogs are a collection of posts made by a user or users reporting news quite often on a particular subject but can be on a wide range of subjects. In addition to the author of a …
Mahara is an open source student centred e-portfolio. It is an environment where students can collect, reflect on and share achievements and developments in a space they can control. It also offers the opportunity for social networking, through forums, blogs and groups and formal assessment submission of student work if required. The table …
Quia and HotPotatoes are tools that can be used to create online activities/quizzes for learners to access either in an educational setting or at home. The activities/quizzes are quick and easy to create and can be uploaded onto a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). On completion feedback is provided instantly to the learner, and …
Qwizdom is one of the brands in the market and our choice of voting pads at Loughborough College. Electronic Voting Pads (EVPs) are being used more and more to transform teaching and learning practises within the traditional classroom setting. Also known as ‘Personal Response Systems’, ‘clickers’ and ‘quiz pads’, they work …
Podcasting is a way to deliver audio blogs or commentary. Podcasts are usually delivered as a series of digital media files over the internet in a downloadable format. The table below shows some potential uses of this technology in both Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE). Below this are videos which …
Spreadsheet software is an application where data is arranged within a table structure on separate sheets where the parts of the table interlink with other parts. This enables the management of data, through the implementation of formulas, formatting and the creation of figures. Microsoft excel is the most commonly known spreadsoft package, however Google now …
