These tips are based on the experiences of colleagues running teaching sessions run during the COVID pandemic for MBS students. Many of the recommendations for effective design of structure and content of sessions apply to face-to-face teaching, but in this medium are even more important. Plan the content of sessions carefully in advance and to …
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- …
Live webinars provide teacher presence and an opportunity for you to interact with learners. You can run webinars using Blackboard Collaborate or Microsoft Teams or Zoom Webinars can combine input, activity and feedback. Collaborate has a whiteboard and discussion space. This is harder for large groups for activity and feedback and more useful for small group …
Online activities need not involve cutting edge technology. Most online and distance courses include activities in which students read through materials or consider key resources. You can give some information about what you want students to do with the reading and/or follow up with discussion of an associated activity. Adding low bandwidth activities as part …
Below you will find 5 tips/ ways you can use Sway. We base these ideas on Joe Hartland’s use of Sway as an interactive handbook/website for his teaching in the TLHP and on the 3D helical theme. Sway is part of the Microsoft Office 365 suite of tools. It is free to use for UoB …
