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Having channel playlists can help to organise the Media Gallery and provide a kind of structure. You can also embed a channel playlist in context on a Canvas page. This then allows you to frame and activate the playlist videos. Go to Media Gallery, click on the icon on the top...
Kaltura MediaSpace is the video portal where you can create, upload, and share media content, create playlists and channels, and browse and search for videos to watch. You can access the Kaltura MediaSpace by going to kaltura.uts.edu.au. My Media is your own personal media storage, where you can create or upload...
Open the Mentimeter presentation that you want to share and click on the ‘Share’ button in the top right-hand corner of your screen. A new ‘Share’ window will pop up, where you will see an ‘Invite collaborators’ tab. Enter the UTS email address of the user you want to collaborate with into the...
Storage You should keep a copy of media you upload to Kaltura. There’s a few reasons for this: If you leave UTS you’ll have a local copy of your media. If you accidentally delete a piece of media you can re-upload it. Alternately if you are a co-editor or...
Sharing videos in Canvas Discussions One of the easiest ways for students to share their own videos is via Canvas Discussions. If a Discussion has been set up for a Canvas subject, students can embed a video from their Kaltura My Media collection in the reply in the same way...
One of the ways to get feedback on feedback is to look for signs in student work: have they taken on board your feedback and has it allowed them to evolve their work effectively? While this is the greatest validation that your feedback is doing what it is meant...
Providing a map for feedforward A feedforward map is probably one of the most useful pieces of direct support you can provide your teaching team. Feedback research shows that students will react most positively to feedback when it provides actionable points that can be taken into their next most...
‘Interactivity’ can be broken down to mean a variety of things. One of the ways that a request for interactivity is often read is as ‘I want something to do because I don’t want to solely listen/sit and absorb’. This engagement angle can also be considered as a reason...
When teachers are asked about feedback, they typically refer to comments that are given to a student with a graded assignment. When students are asked about feedback, they much more readily refer to various forms of communication they receive outside of graded assignments. This suggests that there is a potential misalignment...
Framing feedback agency The feedback we provide students with is often highlighted as a key part of their learning, but there is actually quite a bit expected of learners in their actions of making use of it. Using feedback effectively is a skill, and a skill that they are...
