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How to do this Set up the page in your Canvas course for students to edit. There is a template available in your faculty’s template Canvas course. Encourage students to collect terms from the literature they read throughout the subject, such as mandatory and recommended readings. Invite interested students...
How to do this Use your UTS email to access Zoom Create a Zoom session and copy the link to the session to add to your Canvas course. Create a new page and provide students with details about the purpose of the activity, for example: Preparation for assessment tasks, such...
How to do this Backchannelling can be used in classrooms to enable engaging and interactive learning environments. To encourage all students to participate actively, i.e. post a comment, question, concern or the facts/ideas they consider important, backchannelling can be made compulsory component of your class activities. Here’s how you...
How to do this Summarise your topic into a 60-second chunk. With an average reading speed, that’s approximately 140 words. You should discuss the following: What is this topic about? How is it related to what has been discussed or will be discussed next? What are the key points...
How to do this This activity is best created in the Get Started module in your Canvas course (find out more about this module in the Canvas subject shells resource). You can create the activity by following these steps: Use your UTS email to create a Padlet account. Describe what the...
There are a number of different ways to structure Microsoft Teams for different types of student experiences. The first thing to determine is the model that will work best for your teaching. Below are some suggested models based on the most common user cases. You can request that one...
To set up a class, team or group within Teams, you will need to: Navigate to the left-hand side of the app and click the ‘Teams’ icon On the bottom left of the screen, click ‘Join or create a team’ This will take you to a page of tiles....
Planner is a tool that allows teams to plan projects, share files and organise and allocate tasks to keep track of the work assigned to group members. This app can be particularly useful for student groups to check the progress of their group projects and set due dates for...
The Meetings feature in Teams allows for video or audio calls with live instant messaging and content sharing. The system has low drop-out rates as calls change from video to audio when used with low bandwidth. Features of meetings include: Meetings can be scheduled through Outlook or MS Teams...
To start a chat: Search for a user’s name in the search bar at the top left of the Teams window and click to select them After selecting them, you will be redirected to a chat page between you and that user You can also search your chat history: ...
