Mr Dick Chan
Educational Development Centre

Do you trust your calendar? Calendar synchronisation brings a lot of convenience to us nowadays. After creating an event in one application, you will see the event appearing in your calendar even though the calendar and the application are not developed by the same company. In Blackboard you can synchronise the Calendar with your Microsoft Outlook Calendar so that you can easily check your schedule from you Outlook Calendar. However, recently, it was found that the synchronisation between the Blackboard Calendar and the Outlook Calendar may contain a bug.

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Integrate these student-centred activities into your synchronous online teaching to engage and motivate your students and keep them coming back. Some are designed to take place at the beginning or end of a live session, to build social presence, arouse students’ interest in the topic, or review what they have learned, while others are intended as main activities in which students engage more deeply with subject content.

Though the activities are generic and can be used in any subject discipline, where appropriate, examples are provided to illustrate how they could be tailored to suit a specific context.

Follow these ten top tips before, during and after your sessions to make sure students not only log in to the platform but also stay engaged throughout the online lesson.
  1. Plan for an engaging session
  2. Give students a reason to attend
  3. Ensure all students can take part
  4. Get off to a positive start
  5. Facilitate interaction
  6. Provide feedback on learning
  7. Collect feedback on your teaching
  8. Make clear the benefits of attending the session
  9. Check the data
  10. Reflect on your teaching

A significant amount of online learning and collaboration can be accomplished through discussion boards. Therefore, it is important that teachers are aware of how to facilitate meaningful discussions that engage learners and promote a cohesive online community.

Together with Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, Microsoft Teams provides a platform for teachers to conduct live online synchronous sessions with students. It facilitates real-time delivery of class activities and some degree of interaction with students.

Start creating your online course by using our template for rapid and pedagogically sound course design. The template has been populated with a pre-defined course structure and sample course elements that showcase the University’s Quality Standards for Online Teaching during face-to-face class suspension. You can customize the template to meet your learners’ needs.

This short guide provides you with essential ideas and references about Turnitin Feedback Studio and how to use it for online grading and providing feedback to your students.

This short guide introduces you to some key ideas for you to incorporate into your online learning and teaching. For further useful information and a full range of resources and tutorials, please visit https://www.polyu.edu.hk/elearning/teacher-support/teacher-blackboard-user-guide and https://www.polyu.edu.hk/elearning/teacher-support/bbseries for video tutorials.

Apart from creating and publishing teaching videos to students, uRewind can also be used to facilitate creation and submission of students’ video assignments.

This short guide introduces you to how to make the best use of Blackboard and other resources PolyU offers when subject assessment will be partially or fully switched to online mode. We hope that this guide can help you to find out the assessment format(s) that will work in your context and students, so that learning and teaching are not compromised if online is the preferred choice or during a time of class cancellation.

The ideas introduced in this guide mainly focus on PolyU’s Blackboard Learn and the software Respondus 4.0 which you can freely install on a home or office computer according to the campus-wide license.

It also enables you to communicate with your students and support their learning at a time when they're unable to attend lectures and tutorials in person. Using nothing more than your smartphone or personal computer and uRewind, powered by Panopto, you can create, edit and share teaching videos that look and sound great. Read on to find out how!

This short guide introduces you to some key ideas for you to incorporate into your online learning and teaching.

1. Communicating with your learners via Blackboard

The two main Blackboard tools to enable you to easily communicate with your students are by sending announcements and emails. The two short linked videos provide a step-by-step guide. We also recommend selecting the option to ‘Send Announcement as Email’, as this means that not only will the announcement appear in the course, all enrolled students to the course will also receive an email copy to their PolyU email account.  

Green LUK, edited by Dave GATRELL
Educational Development Centre

MSMVS (Multiple Screens and Multiple video sources) in classrooms sounds very technical. What are the education values behind this technology?

Panopto
Panopto has been adopted as the video platform for the university. It provides solutions for managing, streaming, recording and sharing videos for the students and staff. Some of the newly renovated classrooms have also equipped with ceiling-mounted camera to enable lecture capture service. For more information, please visit
https://www.polyu.edu.hk/video

Welcome to the 5th and final day of Teaching and Tweeting: Five Days of Twitter #5DoT!

Day 5

Thanks to everyone for sticking with it…

 

Today we will look at:

  1. Polling
  2. Threads

Welcome to the 4th day of Teaching and Tweeting: Five Days of Twitter #5DoT!

Day 4

 

Today we will look at:

  1. Tweeting Images, Videos & GIFs
  2. Twitter for Teaching & Learning

Welcome to the Workshop!

Hello everyone,

 

Many thanks for registering for ‘Teaching & Tweeting: 5 Days of Twitter #5DoT’.  As you know, the workshop begins on Monday 14th May and will take no more than 20-25 minutes of your time per day.  I will be posting the daily blogs on the eLearning Support Website, however I will email the link to these blogs to you all every morning – don’t worry though, you can read the blogs and complete the activities at whatever time is convenient to you.

Registration for this workshop is now closed.

In the meantime, you can read a brief overview of the workshop below.

 

Looking forward to seeing you all online and reading your Tweets.

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