Poll Everywhere: Stimulate Participation With Student Live Response

Reposted from Staff News

Digital Education Training Week 2019

Taking place on 30th July 2019 from 10.30pm – 12.00pm. Visit http://lncn.eu/training to book.

This session will introduce Poll Everywhere as a solution for engaging students in live response within a lecture or seminar. You can ask a variety of questions and students can reply in real time from any internet based device. It will provide information on; setting up an account with Poll Everywhere and creating your first poll, the various question types and their application in teaching and learning, getting your students to engage and respond, embedding polls into your PowerPoint presentation and reporting on polls you have run with your students.

Understand how Poll Everywhere can be used to enagage students in live response within a lecture or seminar environment.
Appricate the wide variety of question types which can be embedded into your teaching and learning practice and how you use them to compliment your current learning activities.

Updated Lecture Recording Summary Guidance for 2019-20

Reposted from Staff News

The University recently updated its Lecture Recording Guidance for 2019-20. The two-page summary guidance document can be found here.

Additionally, the University will be running a number of training workshops for staff on making the most of Panopto and Video Based Learning. The next one Panopto: Recording Lectures and Creating Video Resources takes place during Digital Education Training Week (w/c 29th July). Workshops can be booked via https://lncn.eu/training. A video showcasing staff use of Panopto and Video Based Learning for creating learning resources can be watched below.

For further details, contact digitaleducation@lincoln.ac.uk

Brand Guideline changes

To make you all aware if you haven’t seen them already, the university branding guidelines have changed.

The new guidelines can be found here: http://lincoln.ac.uk/t4media/pdf/UoLBrandGuidelinesAug2018.pdf

If you have any concerns regarding web-based materials you are currently using that you feel may be affected by these changes, please contact us via the form on this site and will help you look at them and your requirements.