Design guides
Guides to help you design online learning
TEL Bites Rebuild
A set of categories used to track which pages need review/can be deleted/are good to go.
Blackboard design guide
The Digital Education Office have a guide on how to design courses in Blackboard
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Add audio to your PowerPoint slides
Add audio to your slides: Narration can be recorded easily within Microsoft PowerPoint. You will need access to the full software version to do this, which you can download from the University’s Office Portal if you do not yet have it installed. Read our brief guide to narrating PowerPoint or watch our more detailed video You can also record a narrated slideshow presentation or any on-
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Using media for activities and courses
There is a wealth of online media that you can use in courses and materials, or as the focus for learning activities. Suggestion: Set students an activity whilst they are listening/watching that you can use as a discussion point. YouTube and Vimeo are the obvious sources of material You many have recordings of past teaching
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Tools and resources
Find out about the TEL tools available to you through guides and links to stories and tool tips. Blackboard Blackboard is the University of Bristol’s centrally-supported online learning environment. It has a range of tools for communication, collaboration, assessment, feedback, reflection and content management, as well as providing an online space for activities to support
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12 Tips for engaging learners in online discussions
The 12 tips in the article available below aim to provide medical educators with guidelines for creating engaging online discussions that both support and challenge learners’ understanding. The advice draws on a recent study examining the experiences and activities of 24 educators in MOOC discussion areas, and how their learners engaged with them. It provides
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Using patient simulators to teach cardiac examination remotely: the good, the bad and the Harvey
How do you teach students to recognise the potential symptoms of cardiac disease, during a pandemic, with limited access to patients? Flo Mouy (Cardiac Teaching Fellow) responded to this challenge by introducing the students to Harvey, a specialist mannequin developed for teaching. Flo created videos demonstrating how to, and how not to, examine a patient
Learning to love Blackboard? Moving the MSc in Epidemiology online during the pandemic
Penny Whiting and Kaitlin Wade met the challenge of moving their MSc programme online during the pandemic. By exploring guides and experimenting with the tools available, as well as attending the BILT Digital Design course, they successfully moved their programmes online using Blackboard, Xerte, Padlet, Mentimeter, YouTube and VideoScribe. Student feedback has been positive, and
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Voting software (TurningPoint and Mentimeter)
TurningPoint Students are able to use their mobile device and/or laptop to vote on questions posed live in a PowerPoint presentation. Please get in touch with us at fhs-te,@bristol.ac.uk if you would like help getting started, as you will need to install TurningPoint software on your laptop to create these voting slides. Further information and guidance
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Xerte: creating engaging and interactive self-directed resources
Xerte is a simple, easy-to-use authoring tool for creating effective and engaging digital learning materials. It’s designed for educators to create interactive learning activities, including self-test quizzes, without the need for any coding or programming knowledge. Xerte is available to UoB and honorary/associate staff at https://xerte.bristol.ac.uk, and can be accessed from most web browsers. Projects can
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