Tools and Tips
#5DoT - Blog 3: Getting Involved
08 May 2018
Welcome to the 3rd day of Teaching and Tweeting: Five Days of Twitter #5DoT!
Day 3
Today we will look at:
- Retweeting
- Hashtags #
#5DoT - Blog 2: Your Voice
08 May 2018
Welcome to Teaching and Tweeting: Five Days of Twitter #5DoT!
Day Two
Today we will look at:
- What to Tweet
- @ messages
- Light introduction to hashtags #
#5DoT - Blog 1: Twitter Presence
07 May 2018
Welcome to Teaching and Tweeting: Five Days of Twitter #5DoT!
Day One
Today we will look at:
- Setting up a Twitter Profile
- Following People
Mr Green Luk
Educational Development Centre
Creating online tests and quizzes using Blackboard is a useful tool to assess students’ understanding (with grades) in certain concepts in a course. In some situations, you may need to modify something in the questions. After one or more students have taken the quiz and you try to modify any question, Blackboard allows you to modify the questions prompting a warning message:
Archive your online courses at Learn@PolyU
23 Jun 2017
Educational Development Centre
Please do it NOW! Archive your online courses at Learn@PolyU!
Do you want to know more about how effective your Blackboard course is? Do you want to increase your students’ success by understanding more about their online
How about course reports?
You may have a question: There is already a course reports function in Blackboard. Why do I need to use this archive to
Facebook for Teaching
16 Jun 2017
Mr Darren Harbutt
Educational Development Centre
Dr. Patrick Ting uses Facebook for teaching optometry students at PolyU.
Tips about downloading Blackboard test data
02 Jun 2017
Mr Chan Chun Sang
Educational Development Centre
Apart from knowing the difficulty of a question you asked in a blackboard test, do you want to analyse the data in your own way? For example, you could analyse the correlation among questions or analyse student scores by combining them with other data sources, say their exam result. In order to carry out advanced analysis, instructors can download students' test submissions through the Download Results page. However, a minor bug was found recently in this feature. By reading this blog, you will know more about this bug and the workarounds suggested by ITS and Blackboard.
How to remove HTML tags inside Microsoft Excel? e.g. "<div ... >"
Find out more on our blog.
How to remove HTML tags inside Microsoft Excel?
13 Apr 2017
Mr Chan Chun Sang
Educational Development Centre
Have you seen the following strange scripts when you downloaded data from Blackboard?
The data downloaded from Blackboard could reveal meaningful results if you carried out analysis on them. However, it would be very difficult to read if the cells were like this.
Blended learning with Physiotherapy students
23 Feb 2017
Mr Darren Harbutt
Educational Development Centre
When Lei Mangubat wanted to get her student to look closely at some Physiotherapy case studies, Padlet seemed like a good choice.
Free ALT membership for PolyU colleagues!
11 Jan 2017
Mr Darren Harbutt
Educational Development Centre
Q: How do I become an Associate Member?
A: Sign up here with your work email address from PolyU, EdUHK or HKBU
Blended Learning in Action
06 Oct 2016
Mr Darren Harbutt
Educational Development Centre
When considering the impact of educational innovations, a wise educator looks at what their learners are doing and the outcomes of those actions...
Analysis of student LMS data
This Excel Tool, developed by PolyU EDC, can be used to
This tool is easy to use, and you don’t
Group Journal are Visible to all Enrolled Students in the Course
When journal is created in a group, all students enrolled in that course are able to view and comment on it by default.
Resolution/Workaround
To adjust this 'default' setting, instructors can edit the journal setting and uncheck the "Permit Members to View Journals". This results is only allowing group members to view and comment on the journal.
