Neil CocklinPebble Pad has just announced the first release of 2023. Release version: 2023.1 Release date: 31 January 2022 Release time: 07.00 am (GMT / UTC +0) Possible Downtime: 30 minutes Included in this release: Embed digital badges and microcredentials Updates to Canvas and Moodle LTI 1.3 integrations Two new embed services supported Microsoft Forms – Continue Reading…
Student guide to using WASS to sign up to touch point sessions
Adam WarrenWASS, Aston’s Web Appointment Scheduling System, enables you to sign up to touch point events such as labs, tutorials and workshops. This step-by-step guide shows you how. Your tutors will share a link (via email and/or on the Blackboard course) that enables you to view the list of events and sign up to attend at Continue Reading…
Staff guide to using WASS to create sign-ups for touch point sessions
WASS, Aston’s Web Appointment Scheduling System can be used by students to sign up to touch point events such as labs, tutorials and workshops. This document provides a step-by-step guide for academic staff, showing how to create calendars for their modules and add bookable sessions to those. If you use these, make sure you provide Continue Reading…
Embedding quizzes in Panopto recordings
You can use the Panopto editor to add quizzes to your recordings, each with one or more multiple-choice questions. Use these to allow your students to check their understanding of the content and provide feedback on their answers. You can set it so students cannot progress past the quiz without attempting it, and the score Continue Reading…
Helping students get started with Collaborate Ultra and Teams
Sam Strong, a lecturer in Optometry, has used her graphic design skills to create two ‘getting started’ slides that you can show in Collaborate Ultra and Teams at the start of a meeting. She has neatly condensed all the key advice into simple images. Please feel free to download these files to use in your Continue Reading…
ALTO: having trouble accessing the course on Blackboard?
Use the Google Chrome browser We strongly recommend that you use an up-to-date version of the Google Chrome browser. Firefox and Safari should work OK, but Internet Explorer and Edge will not. If you are using a work (managed) laptop, you can download and install Chrome by following these instructions on Solve. You’ll need to Continue Reading…
ALTO: Designing effective online assessments
This session aims to support participants in making effective use of the available tools and technologies for online assessment. The workshop will consider approaches to managing assessment for students studying online and explore key design challenges in terms of academic integrity, student engagement, quality of feedback, marking and moderation, as well as student attainment. Please Continue Reading…
ALTO: Designing learning events for the online environment
This session aims to provide participants with the opportunity to consider a set of key principles to keep in mind when developing effective high-quality learning events. The session will take a structured approach and enable participants to develop a session from their own context (such as a lecture or seminar) and produce a plan that Continue Reading…
ALTO: Adapting your modules for online and blended learning
This session aims to help you adapt your modules for online and blended learning by providing a set of eight themes to guide your planning for high-quality flexible learning. You will need to review selected resources to prepare for the session, which will involve discussion in groups as you develop an action plan for adapting Continue Reading…
ALTO: Active Learning and Teaching Online
The Education Team (formerly CLIPP) is pleased to launch ALTO: a series of professional development sessions and training events designed to help you develop and deliver high-quality, flexible online and blended learning to our students as part of the ‘Aston Approach’. The first three of these sessions are now available for booking (see details below). Continue Reading…
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