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Teaching Tools

There is an ever-increasing range of digital tools at your disposal to deliver and enhance your Teaching; here is a summary of the tools we support.

Assessment Optionality case study

Emily Cooksey is an Associate Dean for Student Experience and Graduate Outcomes and a lecturer in Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science. Emily talked to Teaching Academy about her experience of running optionality within her assessments. What did you do and why? Optionality is the practise of giving students choice within their assessed work. It is […]

Blackboard Spring Clean

Whilst preparations for the migration to the Universities new CLE platform Canvas are being finalised one activity that staff can currently undertake is a thorough ‘spring clean’ of their Blackboard course units.

Blackboard Ultra Base Navigation

The University has moved to the Blackboard Learn Ultra Base Navigation (UBN). This has changed the layout of the course unit list that you see when you first access Blackboard. The way in which materials and activities are presented and displayed within a course space has not changed.

Mentimeter Ai features

Mentimeter have released some Ai functionality that groups responses to your open ended questions, we have now enabled that functionality for use across UoM.

Changes to our Central Learning Environment

There are some significant changes happening to our CLE over the next two years. The University has announced it has chosen Canvas as our new CLE.
Sooner than this, we are required to update Blackboard to Ultra Based Navigation which will be implemented until the CLE change.