Tag: Student Experience
How to increase lecture attendance with Vevox
Vevox is used in a Year 2 UG Biological Sciences module (circa 90 students) to deliver, mark, and record engagement and performance in summative quizzes during lectures using students’ own […]
Marking with AI: a quick and dirty experiment
Enthusiastic thought leaders and numerous tech bros on Twitter/X are keen to encourage and normalise the offloading of work to Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI). But is there a risk […]
Ally part 2: Adding descriptive text to images in Moodle
This is the second of a planned series of short posts about the use of Ally. You can find out more about Ally on the Royal Holloway staff intranet. Images […]
How to embed responsive Panopto videos in Moodle
There is a quick, non-numerically challenging yet highly effective method by which embedded videos will respond to your learners’ devices and resize appropriately, without distorting the dimensions of the video or requiring horiontal scrolling.
Ally part 1: Creating accessible text in Moodle
This is the first of a planned series of short posts about the use of Ally. You can find out more about Ally on the Royal Holloway staff intranet. Issues […]
Inclusive Podcasting: Sound Pedagogic Practice
A collaboration between the E-Learning Team, the Careers Team and the Student Union Photo by Videodeck .co on Unsplash Through our collaborative project Podcasting Career Conversations, we have explored and […]
Migrating to online teaching pt. 2: MS Teams
What is MS Teams? MS Teams is an application designed to enable colleagues to collaborate and communicateregardless of where they are working from provided that they can access the internet. […]
Migrating to online teaching pt. 1
Royal Holloway aims to deliver as much teaching online as possible by Mar 23. We have a rich portfolio of established institutional system and third-party services, alongside a mixture of […]
Lecture Recording Project: Next Steps
The first two weeks of term with an opt-out lecture recording policy have been incredible. Here are some headlines and highlights: A fivefold increase in recorded lectures in Week 1 […]
H5P: Interactive Content in Moodle
About H5P makes it easy to create, share and reuse rich and interactive HTML5 content. Linking it with Moodle allows academic staff to produce formative and summative assessment activities, as well […]
Lecture recording myths
As we move to record 50% of lectures at Royal Holloway starting in September 2019, it’s a good time to curate and deconstruct some of the myths surrounding this student-led […]
Student access to Turnitin Originality Reports
The challenges and potential approaches of providing students with access to Originality Reports generated by their submissions to Turnitin.
Never mind the b*ll*cks, here’s the Moodle Atto text editor
Or, why doesn’t it let me use all the fonts, colours, and sizes any more?