We are pleased to announce that the University has secured an institutional Padlet license, this is now available.
What is Padlet?
Padlet is a visually engaging and customisable online pinboard for collecting student responses. It allows for interactive, creative student collaboration, supporting text comments and rich media sharing within scheduled, self-scheduled and independent study. For example, to facilitate group discussions, Q&A, research tasks, community building and more! For further ideas about using the tool to engage students, see Teaching with Padlet.
How do I start using my university Padlet account?
See: How to make and share Padlets (institutional license).
What are the benefits?
Using your university Padlet account provides you with many benefits:
- unlimited Padlets,
- single sign-on access,
- accurate post attribution (author name) when using the ‘School only’ share setting,
- ability to toggle ‘Show/Hide’ author names if anonymous posting required,
- ability to transfer or copy padlets from other accounts,
- cost saving, if you usually pay for an individual subscription (making the switch now helps to ensure we include you in the annual license renewal).
What support is available?
Join our launch webinar Monday 16th December 15:00-16:30pm (featuring guest speaker from Padlet and academic colleagues, sharing tips and good practice insights). Book your place.
If you are new to Padlet or need a refresher, you may also wish to book onto a ‘Getting Started with Padlet’ workshop; see sessions listed on the TEL programme.
Are there any restrictions when using Padlet for teaching and learning?
- Temporarily, it is not yet possible to embed ‘School-only’ padlets, this function will be available in the future, when Padlet have a new Blackboard integration ready. In the meantime, use the ‘Copy link to board‘ hyperlink to include Padlet in Blackboard.
- Extraction/archiving of your Padlet data is your responsibility, because Padlet is not in scope of centrally managed University data retention policies and procedures.
- Live Padlets must not be submitted for summative assessment, instead, students should export .pdf version of their Padlet for upload to Turnitin or Blackboard Assignment submission point. It is your responsibility to ensure students are instructed to do this.
- If recording video content directly into a Padlet, or requiring students to do so, you must use the ‘School-only’ share setting.
- Padlet must not be used to collect, store or share sensitive or personal information or content which may infringe copyright laws. If you are unsure about your Padlet content, seek guidance from IMPs.
- For more information, see: Padlet – acceptable use.
Further questions?
If you have further questions about Padlet, see key information via the Padlet: TEL support staff guides or raise a Service Desk ticket.