How can I prepare my Blackboard module for the new academic year? The Prepare your Blackboard module for the new year Checklist details the tasks that you will need to…Continue Reading Preparing your Blackboard module(s) for the new academic year (2023/24)
This post is to help support you as you prepare your Blackboard module(s) as part of your teaching for the year ahead. 1. How can I prepare my Blackboard module…Continue Reading Preparing your Blackboard module(s) for the new academic year
Thursday 19 May 2022 sees the 11th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) when “we get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than one…Continue Reading GAAD – 19 May 2022: How accessible are your T&L resources?
Why use PowerPoint Live? PowerPoint Live provides features that are unavailable when simply displaying your presentation slides via a classroom whiteboard or online screen-share. Using PowerPoint Live will allow students…Continue Reading Use PowerPoint Live to share your presentation slides
Many thanks to our speakers: Sue Blackett (HBS), Dr Sam Bizley (Pharmacy) and Adrian Aronsson-Storrier (Law) for sharing their experience and insights at the recent TEL Showcase: Making Screencasts. All…Continue Reading TEL Showcase – Making and Using Screencasts in T&L
This post is useful for academics and professional staff who use MS Stream with Blackboard modules. Removing a Group in Stream – Please don’t click Delete! Staff are inadvertently deleting Groups in Stream when they are trying to prevent themselves from seeing unwanted Groups….Continue Reading Are you deleting Stream groups by accident?
It is important to be in control of your online interactive sessions with students. The following advice explains how to set meeting options to ensure students join Teams Meetings with the role of ‘attendee’ and how you can manage attendees…Continue Reading Take control! Managing participants in Teams Meetings
If you have a TEL query, please contact TEL via the DTS Service Desk: email dts@reading.ac.uk OR log a ticket on the DTS Self-Service Portal. The following info is based on common queries and issues that have arisen during the last week and is…Continue Reading Advice re common queries during w/c 28 Sept 2020
When I last wrote, we were just 72 hours in to our new ‘normal’ working arrangements. We’re now into the summer term and we’ve had some time to further adjust and reflect on…Continue Reading More from the TEL team on adjusting to a new ‘normal’
There are still places available for TEL Fest sessions (Tues 11 – Thus 13 July, UoR staff only.) Bookings close on Friday (30 June). *Please see the link in the…Continue Reading TEL Fest – Places still available! Bookings close on Friday (30 June)!