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Here are a number of useful features, tips and reminders for you during the online marking process
Dyslexia StickersWhen marking assignments, please make sure that you are checking for the dyslexia icon. This appears alongside the student ID when you are viewing the submissions...
You can use Microsoft Teams either from the Teams App or by using the web version. You will get the best user experience by using the Desktop App this is installed on all university computers.
If you are joining a meeting or lecture you will be prompted when you click on the meeting or...
You can add a Poll in any chat window, whether you are in a meeting or if you are just using chat on its own.
If you are in a meeting and you want to set up a poll, open the Chat window and click on the ellipses (...) at the bottom of the chat
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Once you have clicked into your meeting you have a number of ways to manage your participants.
If one person will be speaking at a time, it is advisable to ask all other participants to mute their microphones. Teams will try to prioritise the loudest noise it detects so if you have...
In the participants window you can also click on the ellipses at the top of the page (in the same line as the heading People) and from here you can change the meeting options by clicking manage permissions or you can download an attendee list. This can be useful for online lectures in the...
If you hover over a participant and click the Ellipses that appear, you have a number of options, such as:
If your participants wish to say something or ask a question in a Teams meeting, you can advise them at the beginning to unmute themselves if you want them to be able to speak as and when they choose, or if you don't want to be interrupted, you can ask them to submit questions in the chat window...
There are two ways to set up Breakout roomsIn Teams meetings, you can either create them on the moodle page in advance, or use the Microsoft breakout rooms feature, so which should you use?
Setting them up on the Moodle page in advance
You can set up a Team space to:
There are a number of ways you can check and test your audio and video device settings
click on the account icon at the top of...
If you have a shared document in Teams, Office 365 groups, in SharePoint or in Onedrive, you can edit it at the same time as other people when it is opened online in a browser. This enables you to work collaboratively on the same document, either in real time or at separate times, without the...
There are two ways that you can download submissions:
You can do this one by one by clicking on the file name
Or to download all at the same time, at the top under Grading action, choose Download all submissions.
You can use the Moodle Assignment for formative as well as summative assignments and for collating documents such as consent forms.
You can follow the same guide for setting up the Assignment tool for summative assignments, but make two changes:
In the Assignment settings, navigate...
To use live captions in a meeting, go to your meeting controls and click the ellipses (...) then choose Turn on live captions.
To stop using live captions, go to the meeting controls and click the ellipses (...) then choose Turn off live captions.
...Microsoft has a great collection of help pages for how to get the most out of Microsoft Stream.
Getting startedIn most instances, creating chapters is a faster and easier way to help your viewers quickly reach the important parts of your recordings. Rather than editing out sections (where perhaps you all went off on a coffee break), it could be quicker to add a chapter for when...
Starting this academic year, some lead lectures will be delivered online using Microsoft Teams. These guides will help you set up these online lead lectures in advance, and show you the various things you can do once in the lecture.
Advice for the lecturerIf a student has submitted a MS Word document, then you can use Word to view and annotate the submission
Word has a number of useful features:
MAF allows for you to add additional documents to support student feedback. You can attach Word and PDF documents, MP3 audio files and even link to a shared OneDrive file for sharing video feedback.
If you wish to allocate certain submissions to specific markers, to do this:
Whilst students like a consistent experience, we understand that staff have their own ways of marking, grading and giving feedback; we believe that our workflow allows for both.
ema.jpg Click...The University has said farewell to Panopto (aka ChiPlayer) and has moved over to Microsoft Stream as its new video platform.
The way you record videos has changed but the new workflow includes tools such as Teams and OneDrive, with which you...
1. Check the assessment criteria
Your module's Moodle page will have all the details you'll need regarding any assessments.
This should include:
There are a few different ways of making video recordings but for the moment we recommend using Microsoft Teams as this should be the most familiar to you.
Jump to:
Microsoft Teams is designed, by default, to focus on one main speaker. To do this, it uses active noise suppression to remove background noise, such as music, dogs barking or colleagues talking in...
If you want to keep using your current Panopto recordings, you will need to move them onto Stream before 17th July 2023.
Follow these three steps to complete the process:
When you are in your Teams meeting, select the More icon at the top of the page, and select Record and transcribe > Start recording. All members of the meeting will see a message informating them that the meeting...