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Digital accessibility tip: Teams settings  

Accessibility | Teams

Use the accessibility settings in Teams to improve your experience.

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Get ready for video assessments – Part 2 

Blackboard Original | Digital Assessment | Panopto | Teams

This post explores how to set up and manage private online assessments effectively using Teams, Blackboard, and Panopto.

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Getting ready for video assessments – part 1

Digital Assessment | Panopto | Teams

Online video assessments offer an excellent way for students to demonstrate their skills. However, it is essential that you prepare.

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Learning Activity: Production 

ABC Learning Types | Adobe Express | Blackboard Ultra | Microsoft Class Notebook | Microsoft Whiteboard | Production | Teams

Production requires the student to create and showcase an artefact (physical or digital) by applying the knowledge and skills they have learnt

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Learning Activity: Practice 

ABC Learning Types | Blackboard Original | Blackboard Ultra | LinkedIn | Mentimeter | Microsoft Class Notebook | Practice | Teams

Practice requires a student to have multiple attempts at demonstrating their knowledge and skills, with some form of feedback in between

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Learning Activity: Investigation 

ABC Learning Types | Copilot | Investigation | Panopto | Seppo | Teams | Xerte

Investigation may involve use of text, video and other methods of knowledge acquisition, but with the difference that students, rather than simply absorbing the information, must search for, select and evaluate appropriate sources.

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Learning Activity: Acquisition 

ABC Learning Types | Acquisition | Adobe Express | Blackboard Original | Microsoft Class Notebook | Panopto | Teams | Xerte

Learning through acquisition is what learners are doing when they are listening to a lecture or podcast, reading from books or websites, ​and watching demos or videos

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Learning Activity: Collaboration 

ABC Learning Types | Adobe Express | Blackboard Ultra | Collaboration | Mentimeter | Microsoft Loop | Microsoft Whiteboard | Teams

Learning through collaboration embraces mainly discussion, practice, and production. Building on investigations and acquisition it is about taking part in the process of knowledge building itself

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Discussion Boards

Blackboard Original | Discussion | Teams

When you first use discussion boards with your students, it is a good idea to give them some guidance around the etiquette of using these.

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List and Grid views in Teams

Digital Capability | Teams

How to change views in Teams

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Organising Teams

Digital Capability | Teams

How to set up your view of Teams to make them easier to find

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Your calendar in Teams

Digital Capability | Teams

Extra functionality for Teams meetings

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Teams for online teaching sessions – new integration with Blackboard

Blackboard Original | Discussion | Featured | Teams

Online guidance for using Teams for teaching at UWE

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Mentimeter integration with Teams

Collaboration | Mentimeter | Teams

You can now use Mentimeter directly within Teams.

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How Teams can help your students Prepare, Participate and Practise

Basics | Teams

Find out more about the benefits of Microsoft Class Teams.

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Make learning more accessible using Microsoft’s Immersive Reader

Accessibility | Active learning | Blended Learning | Digital Capability | Immersive Learning | Inclusive Learning | Teams

Explore the tools that make Microsoft's Immersive Reader great for accessibility.

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Student screen sharing for in-class settings

Digital Capability | Teams

Have the best of both worlds; face-to-face classes where students can share their screens.

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Assessing your digital habits and creating boundaries that work for you

Blackboard Original | Digital Capability | Learning Design | Staff Development | Teams

Think about your digital wellbeing and how to improve it.

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Learning and Development digital consultation for your team

Digital Capability | Staff Development | Teams

The Learning and Development (LDC) digital learning consultants are offering a new service to support your team with their digital skills development.

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Spotlight for Sign Language

Accessibility | Teaching Tools | Teams

If audience members are deaf or have hearing impairments, they may require a sign language interpreter to access speech-based teaching online, and to participate fully in the shared learning experience.

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Latest articles

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Using digital tools you feel comfortable with to give students an authentic learning experience

Sarah Watson reflects on using familiar tools to develop an innovative simulation for her Accounting and Finance students.

Anti-racism in Higher Education: A candid conversation

Anti-racism in Higher Education: A candid conversation

A podcast conversation between three Black men at UWE Bristol prompts Temba Mahari to reflect on anti-racism as everyday cultural change.

The Lab Sheet as Tutor: Scaffolding technical learning for students and for those who teach them

The lab sheet as tutor: scaffolding students and those who teach them

Jon White explains how writing every lab worksheet in two editions, one for students and one for tutors, supports absent students and new teaching staff.

What can digital learning pinch from games accessibility?

What can digital learning pinch from games accessibility?

Digital accessibility expert Ghizzi Dunlop attended the GA Conference to explore what digital learning could learn from the event.

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Developing immersive experiences to support dementia education 

A project between UWE Bristol, NHS colleagues and external developers has created immersive VR and 360-degree experiences to help learners explore the challenges of living with dementia.

Building community through Ultra discussions

Building community through Ultra discussions

Paul Redford shares how he has made discussions a central part of the fully online MA Education Leadership

ALT Conference 2026: Learning without Edges

ALT Conference 2026: Learning without Edges

Harriet Watkinson, Digital Learning Designer, reflects on attending the 2026 Association of Learning Technology conference

MA Journalism: Building AI assistants that encourage students to think

MA Journalism: Building AI assistants that encourage students to think 

Using Microsoft Copilot Studio to create AI assistants that support practice, feedback and independent learning without simply giving students the answers. 

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  • Digital Pedagogy
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