Turnitin

Turnitin will be out of action for essential maintenance on Wednesday December 27^th from 4pm – 1am (Dec. 28).

DMU Replay

When using the advanced editor in DMU Replay (Panopto), you should not use the Save As function, because it doesn’t function as you would expect.

It does save a new version of your recording, however – the new version is still linked to the original version so if you were to make a change to the original version it also makes the same changes to your save as version!!! The best option for creating an edited version of your original recording is to make a copy of the original, edit this copy in the basic editor, and publish it.

DMU Replay

Please ensure that your staff led teaching recordings (DMU Replay) are available within the ‘Learning materials’ section of your Blackboard module shell.  This is to ensure a consistency of approach and that our students are able to easily locate all resources.  When sharing DMU Replay content in Blackboard please use the Panopto video link tool. There is a full description of this process on the CELT hub at the link below:

https://celt.our-archive.dmu.ac.uk/panopto-adding-a-recording-to-blackboard-quickguide/

Using bookmarks to efficiently accesses ‘how to’ guides on the CELT hub

There are certain process and practices in the use of technologies to support teaching, learning and assessment that you may only use a few times a year, and at widely dispersed intervals. This can sometimes result in you not remembering the process and having to try and re-locate the ‘how to’ instructions on the CELT hub.

Using the bookmark function in your web browser can be a good way to keep track of where these essential ‘how to’ guides are located, and provide you with instant access to them – without having to search for them every time in the CELT hub.

Follow the link below to find out how to use bookmarks

http://celt.our-archive.dmu.ac.uk/effective-use-of-bookmarks/

HLS Staff training and development sessions

A new series of HLS staff training and development sessions in the use of technology for teaching, learning and assessment is available at:

https://hlselt.our.dmu.ac.uk/hls-staff-training-and-development-in-the-use-of-teaching-and-learning-technologies/

Blackboard – emailing announcements to students

If you are using the Date Restricted function for an announcement in Blackboard

You cannot set it to automatically send a copy of the announcement as an email to your students. The send email function only works for announcements which are posted immediately! 🙁

DMU Replay

1. Rob has put together a quickguide which shows how to double check that the microphone has been set correctly when recording in the classroom. See: http://celt.our-archive.dmu.ac.uk/checking-dmu-replay-classroom-microphone/

2. There have been several cases where staff have logged off of the classroom computer before their DMU Replay recording has had time to be uploaded (transferred) into the DMU Replay system. If this happens you will be unable to create a link to the recording in your Blackboard module. At the completion of your recording, having clicked the Upload button

You must wait until the upload progress bars have disappeared from the screen, before closing the DMU Replay software or logging off of the computer.

The Collaboratory – Digital Classroom

The Collaboratory is a creative learning space supporting active, collaborative teaching activities through group work using tables with digital displays and interactivity.

Rob Weale and Julia Reeve (CELT) are running a demo of the digital classroom on Monday 11^th December, 1130am-1230.

Where is the collaboratory?

If you are interested, please contact Rob Weale: RWeale@dmu.ac.uk

ELT Case Study

Heather Conboy (CELT, ADH) has written a case study about the novel use of DMU Replay and recording equipment in Fashion Design. See:

http://celt.our-archive.dmu.ac.uk/case-study-multimedia-in-fashion/

This approach may have some relevance for HLS, such as recording lab activities, clinical skills practice, etc. If you are interested in exploring the potential of this approach for your teaching practice – contact Rob (rweale@dmu.ac.uk).