• Roles within the Knowledge Base

    Contributors: can submit Articles/Posts for approval by an Editor. Are unable to make Pages. They are unable to make edits to their own Articles/Posts without an Editor turning the Article back to Pending. Are only able to edit other people’s Articles/Posts if an Editor making them owner. Authors: can make…

  • How to add posts to a landing page

    The Learning and Teaching Knowledge Base primarily uses “articles” to organise information. However, “posts” are a more suitable format for sharing product updates. Please view the below instructional video.

  • Education Technologists: who are we, and how can we help?

    Photo by Andy Kelly on Unsplash The educational technologists live and work at the interface between learning technology and the science of how we learn best. Superpowers Our understanding the application of educational technology to: We are: What can we do for you? The work of the educational technology team…

  • MS Stream for screen recordings

    If you need to record a video of 15 minutes or less, you can do this via Microsoft Stream 1. Go to https://www.office.com/launch/Stream/ 2. Watch the below video 3. The below video covers:

  • Jisc Discovery Tool

    Digital skills are something that you will develop throughout your career. The Discovery tool helps you to explore your digital know-how. You can use it to self-assess your digital capabilities, identify your strengths, and offers opportunities to develop your skills further to enhance your practice of learning. It uses a series of…

  • Constructing extended written-response questions in Inspera

    Inspera offers three question types suitable for extended written responses (such as essays, reports and short-answer questions). These question types are manually marked and can be linked to rubrics or marking schemes (Inspera’s word for marking criteria). You will need to have the ‘author’ user role in Inspera to create…

  • Automatically marked questions in Inspera

    Inspera offers a broad range of automatically marked and manually marked question types, which allows you to construct assessments of great variety. This article covers considerations on some of the remaining question types, including audio response questions, and questions involving graphics. Please see our example question set here for examples…

  • Engageli

    What is Engageli? Engageli is similar to Teams or Zoom, but has been developed specifically for virtual learning. Below are some of its features: How do I get access to Engageli? To get access to Engageli, you need to create an Engageli classroom using the Aula integration (see the next…

  • Setting up your materials in Aula

    Every Aula module space is divided into the Journey (where your class materials and assignments live) and the Community (the main discussion feed). This article covers how you can set up the Journey in a way which best engages your learners. Good structure, easily readable pages and clear calls to…

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