Ammad Qureshi
If you would like to email your entire Classlist, reminding them of an assignment or sending them a general message, you can easily do it from your Classlist area on Brightspace. The email classlist feature allows you to email every student and tutor, without having...
Year: 2022
Austen Liaude
In Microsoft Teams you can select 4 different presenter modes for sharing your content. These are Content Only (default option), Standout, Side-by-Side and Reporter. To access it you will need to be either presenter or organiser in the meeting....
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...
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...
The chat tool allows you to create public and private chats to interact and communicate with either your entire module classlist or specific students or staff members in real-time. The chat feature can be used to discuss topics and...
In a Microsoft Teams live meeting you can share and collaborate with your students using the Whiteboard tool. This tool has recently been updated and includes more features like templates, note grids, uploading documents and images. Below is a...