Welcome to the first in a series of posts highlighting exciting features staff and students can expect to find in the university’s new virtual learning environment (VLE), Canvas. Each of these posts will showcase a great feature within Canvas that…
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Canvas highlights 1. Quizzes
Tagged with: assessment, Canvas, Instructure, Quizzes, Quizzing, Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), VLE
Posted in Canvas
Posted in Canvas
Nearpod Mid-year update, Sussex staff and student views so far
In September 2017 Technology Enhanced Learning launched a pilot of Nearpod, an interactive presentation tool. The pilot is intended to assess how useful this tool can be for staff and whether Nearpod has a positive effect on students’ learning experiences.…
Tagged with: A - Z of apps, Collaboration, Engagement, Interactive teaching, Quizzes
Posted in Mobile learning, Polling tools
Posted in Mobile learning, Polling tools
Study Direct update: embed content from a range of popular apps and websites
It is now possible for staff to embed a range of external content within Study Direct (the University of Sussex Virtual Learning Environment). This enables you to incorporate a broader range of interactive resources and activities into your teaching which…
Tagged with: Engagement, Interactive teaching, Learning Design, Multimedia, Quizzes, Study Direct
Posted in Learning Design, Study Direct
Posted in Learning Design, Study Direct
Fun online quizzing with Kahoot!
This week we are reviewing one of my favourite classroom tools, Kahoot! Kahoot is a free online quiz tool that enables you to design quick fun quizzes for students for use within the classroom. It can be played competitively, cooperatively,…
Tagged with: Active learning, Kahoot, Mobile, Quizzes
Posted in Active learning, App review, Mobile learning
Posted in Active learning, App review, Mobile learning
Technology Rich Formative Assessment
From Poll Everywhere to Socrative to Google Forms, there is a huge range of tools available for formative assessment both in and out of face-to-face teaching hours. These methods of formative assessment can be extremely useful to gauge students’ understanding,…
Tagged with: App reviews, Events, Interactive teaching, Quizzes, TEL Seminar Series
Posted in App review, External events, Marking and assessment, Polling tools
Posted in App review, External events, Marking and assessment, Polling tools
Plickers! An easy-to-use quizzing tool
The TEL team recently demonstrated Plickers at the annual University of Sussex Teaching and Learning Conference 2016. The theme of the conference was inclusivity. To build on this theme, we demonstrated how to use technology to encourage participation with two TEL…
Tagged with: Engagement, Inclusion, Plickers, Quizzes, Quizzing
Posted in Polling tools, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in Polling tools, Technology Enhanced Learning
Effective Online Quiz Design
In last week’s blog post Pete Sparkes shared some different approaches to help Moodle users rapidly create quizzes for use in course sites, overcoming some of the perceived usability challenges associated with the Quiz activity. In this article I want…
Rapid quiz creation for Moodle
Online quizzes can be used as an effective tool to help assess student knowledge, elicit feedback and add variety in learning. A common criticism of the quiz activity in Moodle is that it can seem cumbersome and time-consuming. Tutors navigate and click through multiple pages, menus and boxes on forms in order…
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