It’s now doable for employees to embed a spread of exterior content material inside Research Direct (the College of Sussex Digital Studying Setting). This allows you to incorporate a broader vary of interactive sources and actions into your instructing which college students can entry and work together with straight from their module websites. This might embrace embedded media corresponding to podcasts or interactive movies, polls or surveys, or shows and collaborative paperwork.
This improvement has been pushed by want from College of Sussex employees so as to add additional interactivity to their module websites and to offer their college students with a broader vary of sources. Resulting from this we’re eager to obtain suggestions from Sussex employees about totally different instruments that they use for instructing and studying which they want to have the ability to incorporate seamlessly into their Research Direct module websites. In case you can’t see a device that you simply use on the ‘What websites can I embed’ record beneath; then you can also make a request for it to be added by sending the title and web-address of the service to tel@sussex.ac.uk
What websites can I embed?
Beneath is an inventory of the websites from which content material can at the moment be embedded inside Research Direct:
| Field of Broadcasts (BoB) | Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, Varieties |
| Padlet | Ballot In every single place |
| Soundcloud | Powtoon |
| Prezi | |
| Vimeo | Sutori |
| YouTube | ThingLink |
| Vizia |
For additional data and step-by-step directions see the ‘How do I embed interactive sources?’ Research Direct FAQ.
In case you’re contemplating utilizing any of those instruments inside your instructing and would really like additional steering, please contact tel@sussex.ac.uk. Within the meantime, beneath are some ideas that can assist you take into consideration how you might wish to use the instruments talked about above inside your personal modules.
Interactive movies
One fast method of including further interactivity to your module can be to include interactive video sources. Vizia is an easy-to-use device which lets you pose inquiries to college students from inside a video, enabling you to trace college students’ responses and choose how nicely the cohort understood a specific subject. First, discover an present video on YouTube and even create and add your personal video, then use Vizia so as to add a number of alternative and open ended questions or to level college students to additional sources that they might discover helpful.
Embedding your Vizia presentation into your Research Direct web site will allow college students to look at the video and reply to the questions from inside Research Direct with out having to go to a different web page. You would additionally use the embed operate to include different media into your module; for instance podcasts on Soundcloud, playlists in Field of Broadcast, animations created with Powtoon or movies on YouTube or Vimeo.
Embedded shows
You may wish to experiment with an alternate presentation device corresponding to Google Slides or Prezi. These instruments will let you create your shows on-line and embrace further options corresponding to viewers Q&A periods. As your presentation is on-line you may embed every week’s lecture slides inside your web site permitting college students to shortly view content material with out having to obtain paperwork, that means that college students don’t want any specialist software program (corresponding to Microsoft Workplace) and may simply entry sources from any sort of laptop or cell machine.
Formative Quizzing
You may embed formative quizzes and surveys into your module websites to permit college students to check their understanding of key ideas. Companies corresponding to Ballot In every single place and Google Varieties allow you to create light-weight formative checks which allow you to gauge pupil progress and modify face-to-face instructing accordingly. You would additionally use these instruments to collect college students’ opinions, for instance what matters they want lined throughout a revision session, permitting you to regulate content material to the wants of your college students.
