Youtube is a Managed Use platform for recording and hosting videos and live streams that are easy to share with your learners (depending on the firewall restrictions of the viewing country). Introduction You almost certainly have experience using YouTube – the world’s largest video hosting service, first launched in 2005….
Socrative is a Managed Use audience participation tool for creating interactive content for your students. If you are looking for a tool supported by the University, please consider Mentimeter instead. Introduction Turn every lecture into a two-way exchange by hosting quizzes, surveys, team activities, competitions and more. Socrative offers several…
Formerly Screencast-O-Matic. This is a Supported media tool for capturing screen and webcam recordings along with some advanced editing, captioning and annotation features. How to install ScreenPal What can I do with it? How do I produce captions? ScreenPal has its own functionality for self-generating captions. How do I add…
Poll Everywhere is a Managed Use audience participation tool for adding interactive content for your students. If you are looking for a tool supported by the University, please consider Mentimeter instead. Introduction Used in company meetings and presentations, as well as in higher education, Poll Everywhere is a simple tool…
PebblePad is a Supported portfolio building tool for allied health professional disciplines and NITE. Students can track their progress overtime and present their achievements and experience in an accessible online platform. Introduction PebblePad helps students create beautiful, shareable portfolios which evidence their skills and career potential. Users can choose templates…
Padlet is a Supported audience participation tool that can be used to capture and display notes and posts from your learners in one place in real time. Introduction Want to collect input from your students in one place? Wouldn’t it be great if learners could post their responses to your…
OneDrive is a Core tool for creating, storing and sharing a variety of content developed with the tools of the Microsoft 365 suite. Introduction Sync your documents, photos, slides, videos and any other content across all devices and share them with your students. If you want to offer your students…
This is a Supported video conferencing tool for hosting meetings. For Synchronous online teaching, Engageli is the preferred hosting too. Introduction MS Teams is a great platform for bringing together your Office 365 content, and with tools like recording, live captions, hand raising and the meeting chat, it’s a great…
Introduction As a Microsoft Partner university, Coventry staff enjoy full access to the Microsoft 365 suite of tools. There are options for creating all kinds of content, from something familiar like Word documents or PowerPoint slides, to something you may have not tried before like a Sway presentation or a…
Mahara has now been deprecated at Coventry University. Please consider using WordPress instead.