The Digital Teaching Environment

This course will be available shortly. In the meantime, we recommend that you sign up for Learn: Getting started with Learn Ultra (self-paced)

Event Description: 

Learn is the University’s virtual learning environment. This session will cover the topics below and give you the opportunity to ask questions about them. The session will last for 1 hour, including time set aside for a Q&A. 

Learning Outcomes: 

By the end of the course you will have learned how to: 

• Navigate UBN
• Change courses view
• Search/filter courses
• Favourite courses
• Edit profile page
• Change notification schedule
• Customise activity stream
• Change calendar views
• Add events to calendar
• Navigate Marks area
• Send a message 

If you’re new to Creative Commons licences or simply need a quick refresher, this Quick Start 30 minute information session will provide a brief introduction to Creative Commons, covering all the main licence types, and show you how to quickly and easily apply CC licences to content in Learn, Media Hopper Create and blogs.

This session will introduce participants to:

• The key concepts of copyright, licensing and the public domain.
• The benefits and affordances of open licensing.
• The different Creative Commons licences and how they can be used.
• How to attribute open licensed content.
• How to add a licence to your own resources on:
  • Learn
  • Media Hopper Create
  • Blogs.ed.ac.uk
  • PowerPoint.

Wooclap: In-Class Polling for Student Interaction and Engagement

This session will look at some techniques and functionality of in-class polling systems that can help engage your students with your teaching and course material. We will look at different question types, in-built functionality, and common techniques for encouraging peer and class discussion. 

For any practical demonstrations, we will use the centrally supported system, Wooclap. However, the functionality and techniques described are common to other polling systems or are not system dependent. 

In this session we will cover:

• Making the most of question types
• Advanced functionality
• Alternative approaches and activities
• Sourcing questions

Wooclap: Introduction to Wooclap

Wooclap is an electronic voting system that allows lecturers to add question and answer activities to lecture sessions to support interactivity and engagement with large groups.

This course introduces you to electronic voting systems in general and Wooclap in particular and shows you how to use the basic features such as creating an event and adding questions to it. In addition, you will learn how to schedule out-of-class activities for your students. You will also experience using the system as a participant during a live demo.                                             

The session is intended for novice users of EVS looking to learn more about electronic voting systems and Wooclap.

Experienced users of EVS should consider enrolling on the Wooclap Orientation course instead.

Learning Outcomes:

• create events, folders and questions
• organise content within the system
• share an event - as a copy and as a collaboration
• choose different content delivery options – synchronous and asynchronous
• gather and display audience responses