The built-in accessibility checker in Brightspace’s text editor can detect basic contrast errors and problems. It gives quick problem resolutions and links to verified external sites for extra reading. The font colour picker also gives accessibility recommendations. Watch the...
Month: March 2022
In Microsoft Teams you can navigate to your recently viewed tabs with one click. This tool can be useful if you work on many tabs and want to access them quickly. Below is a short video demonstrating how to...
In Brightspace’s Discussions, you can set up a forum where students can post anonymously. You may want to allow anonymous posts when talking about sensitive or non-assessed topics to allow students to interact without feeling targeted. The short video below explains...
If you would like to organise students into groups on Teams, to chat with them or send a post directed to them, you can use the tags feature to do so. Using tags as groups may be useful to keep track of students in group tasks or...
Here are some new features in Teams that have just come out in March 2022. Pin a Message in the Chat You can pin a message within the chat in Microsoft Teams. You might use this feature to pin...
You can set up discussion forums or threads where a moderator must approve individual posts before they are displayed in a discussion. This feature can be used for example, in the discussion forums where students discuss their placements, and you don’t want students to reveal any personal information...