Online learning training sessions

Development sessions are being provided to support staff in their transfer to remote and online working and teaching. You can find available sessions below.

Make Minerva Accessible with Blackboard Ally

These sessions are for any member of staff who is responsible for uploading content into Minerva.

The aim of this online workshop is to provide a brief introduction to Blackboard Ally which is a tool to improve the accessibility of digital content in Minerva. It will be available in all 20/21 modules and organisations in time for the upcoming academic year.

Ally is a tool that automatically scans the original content in Minerva and provides an Accessibility Indicator for each file. Blackboard Ally has three key features:

• It will identify content with accessibility issues
• It will show staff how to make their content more accessible and
• It will also automatically give students access to files in multiple formats, such as braille, html and mp3 audio.

Please see training dates and links to book on below:

Top Hat for assessment

This event is suitable for academic staff and PGRs who teach. These sessions will cover:

• Creating folders
• Creating a MC question
• Creating a page and instructions to give students for assessment
• Adding questions in a Page
• Quick overview of different question types available
• Assigning the test to students – what it looks like for students and instructors.

*** Top Hat Session 1 – This session on 2 July is to enable staff to gain an understanding of the tool and be able to create and deploy quizzes and polls to students.

Plan and Deliver Webinars – Collaborate Ultra

This webinar will introduce staff to Collaborate Ultra to plan and deliver webinars for:

• Synchronous (real-time) teaching sessions
• Small group seminars or tutorials
• Q&A sessions with a small group of students
• Recording presentations for students to view independently via Minerva

This will be a 1-hour online session to explore the functionality of Collaborate Ultra including the use of chat, audio, video, file share, polling, whiteboard tools and breakout rooms to conduct webinars. There will be a 10-minute Q&A session at the end.

Online marking and feedback for written submissions in Turnitin

The drop-in sessions have been cancelled due to low demand. However, if you are interested in attending a future drop-in session please email the People Development team.