Tag: video

Quick Guide to Screencasting – Powerpoint

Powerpoint has a screen recording tool that allows you to capture your screen and audio to create your online blended learning materials. This webpage details how you can do this.

Animations and visualisations

Visualisations such as annotated videos and animations can be used to explain complex scientific principles and help students understand abstract concepts and cement the learning. The eLearning Team can help produce high quality visualisations and animations.

Setting video assignments in Blackboard

Our colleagues in the Faculty of Humanities have come up with a method whereby students can upload their videos to the University’s Video Portal, and paste the generated link into Blackboard. This will enable you to view the videos in the Blackboard assignment tool, without placing a strain on Blackboard’s servers.