Staff development workshops

We offer a range of staff development workshops. Workshop participants can complete our workshop evaluation survey.

We can often tailor and run ad hoc workshops for a specific Faculty, School, Department, group or project. If you are interested please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk and one of the team will be in touch to discuss your requirements.

Workshops on offer

• Ultra Basics for Academics
• Ultra Basics for Professional Services and Admin
• Training on setting up and running assessments in Ultra tailored to each faculty or school's assessment practice. To arrange your training, please contact us at digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
• More Ultra workshops coming soon.
• Blackboard Basics
• Digital Accessibility Basics for Teaching and Learning
• Mentimeter - Learn how to engage your audience & create exciting presentations
• Multiple Choice Questions: Principles and Practice
• Multiple Choice Tests in Blackboard: Uses, ideas and hands on practice
• Re/Play: Managing video content
• Turnitin for administrators
• If there are no dates available for a live workshop you are interested in, please contact us at digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.

Ultra Basics for Academics

Aim: Equip academic teaching staff with basic understanding and familiarity of the Ultra interface and initial key tasks.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

1. Navigate with ease in the new ultra interface.
2. Update your profile information and image.
3. Add / remove colleagues from the unit.
4. Create a structure for your unit by adding folders and learning modules.
5. Create an ultra-document and embed an image/ video.
6. Organise your learning materials.
7. Copy content from an existing unit.
8. Check accessibility.
9. Make an announcement.

Ultra Basics for Professional Services and Admin

Aim: Equip professional services staff and those in administrative roles within the faculties with basic understanding and familiarity of the Ultra interface and initial key tasks.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

1. Navigate with ease in the new ultra interface.
2. Add / remove colleagues from the unit class list/ change roles/ self-enrolment.
3. Create a structure for the unit by adding folders and learning modules.
4. Create an ultra-document and embed an image/ video.
5. Organise learning materials.
6. Copy content from an existing unit.
7. Manage access to content.
8. Check accessibility.
9. Make an announcement.

Blackboard Basics

Aim: Introduce Blackboard, access, managing content, previewing courses as student, making announcements, accessing support.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop participants will have:

1. More knowledge and familiarity of Blackboard.
2. More confidence in using Blackboard.
3. More awareness of how and where to get further support.

Digital Accessibility Basics for Teaching and Learning

Aim: Introduce Digital Accessibility good practice and how to use Blackboard Ally.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

1. Gain an understanding of Digital Accessibility.
2. Know what good practice looks like.
3. Understand how Digital Accessibility benefits students and staff.
4. Have a clear idea of how to adopt good practice in digital accessibility.
5. Know how to audit and make changes to Blackboard content using Blackboard Ally.

Mentimeter - Learn how to engage your audience & create exciting presentations

Aim: Help staff learn more about Mentimeter, discover how to create presentations, and develop their presentation skills.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop participants will have:

1. Discovered more about how to use Mentimeter
2. Developed skills on engaging students with your presentations.
3. Uncovered how to create appealing and interesting presentations.

Multiple Choice Questions: Principles and Practice

Aim: Introduce staff to real question examples to explore and tryout, the range of technologies fully supported at UoB and available to all staff without requiring additional licencing, tips for writing MCQs provided by academic staff colleagues.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop participants will have:

1. Explored the range of question types and tryout real examples.
2. Familiarized themselves with MCQs technologies availalbe and supported at UoB.
3. Critically reflected on the principles and strategies used to design effective online Multiple Choice Questions..

Multiple Choice Tests in Blackboard: Uses, ideas and hands on practice

Aim: Familiarise staff with the range of questions types available, how to write Multiple Choice questions using the Blackboard test functionality and how to configure a test and make it available to students.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop participants will have:

1. Explored the range of questions available and tryout real examples.
2. Familiarized themselves with the Blackboard functionality to write Multiple Choice Question.
3. Practiced with the software to create a number of question examples.
4. Accessed the support and guidance provided by the Digital Education Office.

Re/Play: Managing video content

Aim: Familiarise staff with different types of recordings, editing video and closed captions, how to upload and add videos to Blackboard courses, managing presentation permissions.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

1. Know how to make a variety of recordings.
2. Understand how to suitably edit content.
3. Know how to upload and share videos.

Turnitin for administrators

Aim: Familiarise staff with Turnitin LTI interface, provide an introduction to Turnitin LTI settings and features, explain the recommended settings.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

1. Access and administer Turnitin assignments effectively.
2. Navigate through assignment functionalities for marking.
3. Check that a submission point has been set up correctly.