Staff development workshops
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I teach or manage educational content with digital tools
- Get your Blackboard Course Ready for the Start of Term
- Designing your course
- Building interactivity
- Designing Assessments
- Menti for new users
- Classroom assessment techniques with Menti
- Re/Play: Managing video content
I administer Blackboard courses
- User Management
- Assessment Workflow Management
- Getting started with FeedbackFruits for peer assessment
I mark assessments
We recommend you complete the workshops within each strand of training in the order suggested.
Requesting engagement:
- Local training: To arrange or deliver training for your team, see Arrange or deliver local training form. You can also see this option for each workshop on this page.
- Consultations: To discuss your school or faculty’s use of any digital education tool or process, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
I teach or manage educational content with digital tools
Get your Blackboard Course Ready for the Start of Term
- Build and update your course content for the next academic year.
- Explore the Blackboard Baseline Course Standards and apply them to your unit course.
- Share effective practices in course design with colleagues.
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Mode and Duration
- Online, 1.5 hour
Relevant Guidance
Designing your course
- Organise your units in an easy to navigate way.
- Use the template and maintain consistency across the units.
- Add content such as Documents, Files, Links and Re/Play recordings.
- Understand, identify and fix common accessibility issues.
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Mode and Duration
- Online, 1.5 hour
Relevant Guidance
Building interactivity
- Understand the benefits of adding interactivity to your course to you and your students.
- Access the supported tools through Blackboard.
- Add interactivity into Blackboard.
- Understand, identify and fix common accessibility issues.
- Know where to look for support materials.
- Know how to access support and guidance from the DEO.
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Mode and Duration
- Online, 1 hour
Relevant Guidance
Designing Assessments
Topics
This is a topic-specific, digitally-focused designing workshop, tailored to your requirements.
Topics may include:
- Video, audio or mixed-media assessments
- Digitally innovative assessments, such as those using AI
- Exploring tools to support Programme-Level or Unit-Level assessment.
Please provide details of your needs using the Arrange or deliver local training option. It may be necessary to book a consultation in advance of the training session to ensure it meets the team’s needs.
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Mode and Duration
- Online, 1 hour
Relevant Guidance
Menti for new users
For new users as well as those of you who would like a refresher. Menti will guide you through the process of creating engaging Mentimeter presentations. You will engage in an exercise to create your first Mentimeter presentation and will have a ready-to-use draft afterwards, so you need access to your Mentimeter account before this training.
You will receive inspiration, best practices and have the opportunity to ask questions throughout the training.
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- Book now on Develop - You will also need to complete Mentimeter's own sign-up sheet for this session.
- Arrange or deliver local training
Mode and Duration
- Online, 1 hour
Relevant Guidance
Classroom assessment techniques with Menti
In this interactive session, Menti unpacks what it actually takes to help students understand deeply — then gets hands-on with classroom assessment techniques (CATs) you can run live in Mentimeter.
Whether you're teaching a lecture hall of 300 or a seminar of 12, you'll leave with techniques you can run tomorrow, and a much clearer picture of what's actually landing.
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- Book now on Develop - You will also need to complete Mentimeter's own sign-up sheet for this session.
- Arrange or deliver local training
Mode and Duration
- Online, 1 hour
Relevant Guidance
Re/Play: Managing video content
Re/Play is the University of Bristol’s primary video content tool, which facilitates staff in creating, editing, automatic captioning, publishing and managing audio-visual content.
This online workshop is available for all staff who use or will use Re/Play. In this interactive session, we will take you through the process of generating, editing and uploading a video to Blackboard Ultra. There will be an opportunity to learn about recent updates, ask questions and discuss best practices.
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Mode and Duration
- Online, 1 hour
Relevant Guidance
I administer Blackboard courses
User Management
By the end of this workshop you will be able to:
- Enrol and remove users from a course.
- Create a group set and a group and add members to a group.
- Create release conditions for content.
- Post an announcement in a course.
- Send an email to a group of users on a course.
- Understand and perform basic analytics on student engagement in a course.
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Mode and Duration
- Online, 1 hour
Relevant Guidance
New Blackboard Gradebook Webinar
This webinar is designed to introduce the new layout of Blackboard's Gradebook and to help users navigate efficiently. It will cover the benefits and considerations of the recent changes and provide staff with a chance to ask questions about its use in marking, submission management and feedback workflows.
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Mode and Duration
- Online, 30mins
Assessment Workflow Management
This workshop is best run for whole Schools or Teams, please use the Arrange or deliver local training option to request this workshop.
Topics
The workshop covers:
- Blackboard Online, OR
- Blackboard Offline, OR
- Blackboard Tests, OR
- Turnitin
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Mode and Duration
- Online, 1.5 hour
Relevant Guidance
Getting started with FeedbackFruits for peer assessment
A session for academics to learn how FeedbackFruits can be used for peer assessment and to practice the basics of setting up activities.
Topics
A chance to ask questions about Blackboard Ultra.
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Mode and Duration
- Online, 1.15 hour
I mark assessments
Assessment Workflow Marking
This workshop is best run for whole Schools or Teams, please use the Arrange or deliver local training option to request this workshop.
By the end of this workshop you will be able to:
- Locate and access assessments that need marking.
- Use your knowledge of features to find and select appropriate marking and feedback tools for your needs.
- Recognise how marks and feedback appear from a student’s perspective.
- Locate further guidance on marking and feedback, if needed.
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Mode and Duration
- Online or in-person, 1 hour
Relevant Guidance
New Turnitin Experience Introduction
The course offers an introduction to the new Turnitin inbox and Feedback Studio.
Objectives:
- Familiarise users with the new Turnitin Inbox
- Give users the knowledge to set up an assessment
- Navigate the various settings and functions of the feedback studio
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Mode and Duration
- Online, 1 hour