It has always been difficult to find times and spaces to train staff in some of the tools and platforms they need to use in their teaching. Now, in addition to on-campus and online sessions the Educational Enhancement team are…
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Tagged with: Canvas, feedback, Online marking, online teaching, Padlet, Podcasting
Posted in Professional Development
Posted in Professional Development
Some new features in Canvas, Panopto and Padlet
The key learning technologies in use here at Sussex are regularly updated in response to customer feedback. In this post we’ve cherry-picked some of the most recent updates you may find useful. Canvas Canvas have recently introduced a feature that…
5 new changes in Padlet
Padlet is a great tool which is popular around the University, the tool has also received a number of new updates over the last year or so which have added functionality and improvements to one of our favourite tools. So…
Canvas, Panopto and Padlet: what’s new?
The learning technologies that we use at the University of Sussex see a steady stream of updates as they respond to the needs of their users. We thought it would be useful to pull together all of the recent updates…
What’s new in Padlet?
Padlet is a tool for creating online collaborative boards, that is very popular with teaching staff at Sussex. One of the best things about it is its versatility – with lots of layouts and ways of using it. We have…
Adding a ‘chat’ backchannel to in-person classes
During the pandemic most lectures have been online – either as recordings or as live Zoom sessions. Academics noticed that the ‘chat’ facility in the latter encouraged more questions and discussion than they had experienced during in-person lectures on campus.…
Tagged with: Canvas, communication, community, Padlet, Poll Everywhere, polling
Posted in Apps and tools, Blended learning, Polling tools
Posted in Apps and tools, Blended learning, Polling tools
The top TEL blog posts in 2020/21
It’s been a year (plus) like no other, but now the academic year is ending there’s a chance for some reflection. I was interested to see whether the number of views of posts on the TEL blog could tell us…
5 Online Tools for Active Learning
Active learning is an approach to teaching and learning that requires students to take an active approach to learning material by analysing the topic and producing something tangible. It is different from passive learning which involves listening and reading but…
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