Monitoring student engagement in a blended and connected curriculum

Allows students to ask questions (when used in presenter view) during a teaching session

Students can vote on the questions they would like answered

Allows the slide creator to revisit a presentation's Q&A History

Gives the presenter a feel for their students' engagement

Gives students the opportunity to get clarification on areas of teaching in real time

Easy to add, import, edit and share questions

Great tool to establish what is working well and suggestions for improvements

Automatically creates a Google Sheet of responses which saves time in collating data

A good example is the Let me know form used in EDSOC and the Student and Academic Representation Tool (StART)

Collect student feedback from course representative(s)/volunteer(s)

Weekly Q & A Forum can be set up on Moodle on the module page and be a space for regular responses to student questions about the module

The module leader can respond to questions and the same answers given to students in a common area. (This tip reduces lots of individual emails saying the same thing over and over.)

Create a space for communication and discussion, thoughts, opinions and issues that may be impacting student learning and engagement

Moodle allows you to create engaging activities that can check your students' understanding and thus engagement of a particular topic

Formative assessment style activities including the Quiz and H5P allow you to create questions from a variety of question types

Creating Interactive Content in Moodle Using H5P – training session recording

How to use TEL to Create Knowledge Checks to Support Student Learning – training session recording

Easy to set up and share - Contact elearn for a licence

Create asynchronous collaborative feedback board activities (let students comment anonymously) to give feedback on what is working well, what things to continue, and what isn't working well

Use synchronously to present and gather feedback from Nearpod's audience response tools

Using NearPod to Facilitate Live and Remote Sessions

Easy to set up and share

Create a Padlet feedback board (let students comment anonymously)

Set up a Padlet and ask students to collaborate on topics such as what is working well and what isn't, and share ideas on solutions for things that could be improved

Create a Padlet which allows students to ask questions during a session. Save time at the end of the session to answer and explain questions that have arisen

Multiple templates available to support different activities

Can be embedded into Moodle

Top Tips for Creating Engaging Collaborative Content using Padlet – training session recording

Live polling can be used to test students' understanding of materials being delivered to them

Surveys allow students to give honest feedback in their own time

Allows the presenter and students to share ideas and questions which can inform future teaching sessions

Allows students to rate their teaching session

Presenters can add questions, polls and word clouds directly into previously created Power Point presentations

Using Vevox to Create Live Conversations with Students – training session recording

Allows students to give a thumbs up/down rate for a session. If student gives a thumbs down, Zoom adds some additional questions relating to the user's experience. However, students can also add in their own additional comments

Presenters can view survey responses from their Zoom account dashboard