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Our very own Senior Student Digital Champion Vivian Hocking was invited to co-deliver the morning keynote at bett on Friday 24th January, kicking off the final day of the showcase.
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Digital Education are pleased to announce an exciting new update to the YourVoice student feedback web app. With an updated interface and newly developed integration, this post will briefly outline the changes and benefits for new and existing users of the web app. If you have not heard of YourVoice, it’s a streamlined, responsive web…
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Collaborative learning can take various shapes and forms. Using powerful and popular technologies available on the market that are designed for audience engagement and participation, such as Mentimeter or Slido can really bring your content to life.
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What are the new or updated features? In this article we highlight some of the new or updated features for our PebblePad users at the University of Plymouth.
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From the humble beginnings of stereoscopic pictures, Palmer Luckey’s rebirth of virtual reality in 2012 and the pandemic boom of head mounted displays, is education ready to join the party?
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We are pleased to announce that we have added something new to our existing suite of Turnitin tools. Turnitin Draft Coach enables users to access Turnitin similarity, citation and grammar check reports independently of the DLE via Microsoft Word online.
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Mentimeter is a cloud-based polling tool to interact with students through presentations in real-time using a mobile phone or other device connected to the internet. Mentimeter visualises the response data from participants which can be displayed live but it can also be hidden until all students have submitted a response.
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A gaggle of digital education innovators descended on the city of Birmingham to explore all things pedagogically sparkly and transformative at Digifest. Among them were two intrepid Student Digital Champions from the University of Plymouth eager to share their views and experiences.
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The University will be upgrading Moodle/DLE on Wednesday, 26 July 2023. Read more about some of the improvements.
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Personalised assessment and adaptive testing. Using PULSE to support our student’s learning journey. Digital Education recently attended the Plymouth Medical School Personalised Assessment Conference to showcase some of the innovative work being undertaken within PULSE to aid in the investigation of Content Adaptive Progress Testing for the BMBS (Bachelor or Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) programme.
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How to select between these technologies? Due to the various technologies available in the current market, usually, it is not simple to determine which tool we should use for teaching sessions, workshops, conferences, team management, follow-up tasks, icebreakers, assessments, and so on. Teaching environment adds another level of complexity, as different practices and technologies are…
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Equality pledges: The Magic in the background!
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The Moodle Quiz activity is a powerful tool that allows you to use various question types for formative and summative assessments.
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Transform your teaching and the student learning experience with quick, easy to use, interactive elements.
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What is PebblePad? PebblePad is an electronic portfolio system designed to support staff and students in their personal development. It is completely web-based and works by providing you with a flexible way to plan, record, and reflect on your learning. Your PebblePad account is personally managed by you. You can use it to create records…
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Our fantastic Student Digital Champions joined forces with the awesome PALS team (Peer Assisted Learning Scheme) at this Friday’s Feel Good Fair held in Rolle Marquee.
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(Improved assessment tools in PebblePad) The ATLAS Submission Viewer 2 (SV2) is the full suite of assessment functionality, plus an improved user experience recently released by PebblePad. It concludes a series of releases for the individual components and represents a huge leap forward for assessors in PebblePad. As a result of the improved interface and functionality, as…
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What is Zoom? Why use Zoom? What are the new features in Zoom? What is Zoom? Zoom is a web conferencing tool that enables online communication, collaboration, and interaction between users in various different ways. Features include: HD audio and video meetings with up to 1000 participants depending on the license type; built-in collaboration tools,…
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H5P is a great opportunity to build rich, interactive, accessible, and shareable content for your students which then might increase their engagement and motivation – as a result, it could increase the student performance. In addition, with H5P, thanks to gamification and other implemented features, such as the responsivity, you would be able to provide…
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Amidst an international lockdown and in response to educational Pandemic demands, the first ever University of Plymouth Digital Assistant was born. Wave first came into life as a way to answer a multitude of questions from students scattered across the country and isolating due to a pandemic. The first ever embodiment of Wave supported students…
