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LITE and the TIPS Community are celebrating Student Engagement Week from 14.-18. December.

Background
What do engaging teaching and engaged learning look like? How can we make our asynchronous and synchronous delivery more interactive? Throughout this week, there will be several opportunities to learn and share new tips and tricks.

This Padlet

Every day, we will post a new conversations starter in this Padlet. Click on the ' + ' to add a post, comment or like what others shared.

Further events:
Share, Adopt, Adapt Workshop: Engagement Christmas Special on 17 December, more here:
https://teachingexcellence.leeds.ac.uk/events/

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One of my techie students started making super short screencasts for his classmates about where to find the course’s material, how to submit assignments on Minerva, etc. Made me smile wide 😊

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An international PG student telling me that I am 'so kind' for asking after their welfare. This is not something that they have been used to in previous educational settings, and it felt good to know that the students knows that I DO care!

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Students telling me they appreciated me making a screen shot for them on how to upload a file to OneDrive. We can assume they know things and then it turns out they did not.

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A tutee thanking me for helping her through a particularly tricky time. Always happy to help, but this made my term!

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A graduate messaging me on LinkedIn to thank me for my work in putting them in touch, and introducing them to a wide range of employers. It made my day.

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A student asking if she could add an Academic Q&A channel to our Student Cafe. She's encouraging members to support each other by responding to queries, which means less reliance on tutors to check in and respond. Made me punch the air with joy as it's student autonomy at its best. 

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A student asking if she could add an Academic Q&A channel to our Student Cafe. She's encouraging members to support each other by responding to queries, which means less reliance on tutors to check in and respond. Made me punch the air with joy as it's student autonomy at its best. 

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Watching my level two students

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We have encouraged students to ask questions in their Teams channels which now allows them to help each other and to learn from answers we give to one student. This frees up a lot of time!

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A student email thanking me for  offering the opportunity to participate in an optional peer formative activity on Flipgrid (a video pitch). An activity that she found to be a valuable learning experience. It definitely made me smile.
On this note, thank you very much Aline for introducing me to Flipgrid!! :-)

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A student who missed a couple of Spanish sessions.

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A student who missed a couple of Spanish sessions.

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Lo siento for being so absent these last few weeks. I have been struggling a bit with feeling anxious and down. Doing uni during the pandemic is harder than I expected!

Pero, no temas! My Spanish is not suffering. I have been using the resources and practicing most days. I have written my assignment and planning to submit it esta noche.

I really appreciate all your support. Learning Spanish with you has been fun and engaging. I wouldn’t have been able to keep up with the content without your encouragement.

I hope you have una feliz navidad y próspero año nuevo! Even if the celebrations will not be the same in lockdown.

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"Thanks so much for all your help, you’ve gone above and beyond what you needed to do to help me out".

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This might sound very simplistic but a single word document on sharepoint can do the magic of collaborative work need. While in breakout rooms, students can holistically contribute to the doc.

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A basic screen recording of something like how to access feedback, or submit a piece of work, can take 10 minutes to create and share but save a lot of time and confusion for students, as well as for tutors answering questions.

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To gauge how students feel about something, etc

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Making a Discussion Board an 'Assessment Chatroom'

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Making a Discussion Board an 'Assessment Chatroom'

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Just creating a series of discussion boards under the menu banner 'Assessment Chatroom' for each assessment topic/subtopic and insisting students post there and not email me their (repetitive) questions. If any do email, I just cut and paste and put it on the relevant chat board and answer it there for all to see...

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Just using the Voice Comment within Turnitin Feedback Studio make feedback more personal as they can hear our voice asynchronously, it saves time and provides them with extra listening skills practice in Spanish.

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Students can record their answer as short videos, which are then open for others to comment on. Special feedback options are available for teachers. See also here: https://digitalpractice.leeds.ac.uk/using-flipgrid-video-to-get-students-talking-asynchronously/

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Students made sure to credit other students when they were presenting without me having to say anything. It made me smile when students encouraged each other to speak up during class.

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No one needs to be told repeatedly that there is a pandemic but it needs to be acknowledged that things are different. Hence we made a short video explaining how teaching would run, how Minerva would run, etc. and placed it on the Announcements page.

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Using the meeting chat, ask students to type an answer in the chat but NOT press send yet. Then all send it at the same time. The mass creates less pressure for individuals and it is fun to see all answers pop up at once.

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To boost engagement on teams channels, ask for regular (daily, weekly) mini-engagement tasks that can be fun. E.g. post a picture of... (something easy) in the channel.
The playful engagement with the technology helps students feel more comfortable in the space.

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I tend to ignore chat messages when I'm presenting. Unfortunately this has meant missing warnings that I'm cutting out/too quiet/on mute/not sharing my screen etc. I believe on once occasion that I presented with my audio off for a whole 50 minutes. Worst of all, I made some really impassioned statements and clever jokes in that time and no-one heard them...

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Consider Language/Phrases  Used Based on Cohort

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Consider Language/Phrases  Used Based on Cohort

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Heres a funny one...  When I used to teach law years ago, there was a concept called 'Jury Nobbling' and my quick explanation (to A-level age-students) was "when you interfere" with a juror which made them LOL.

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20 minutes before my first live Spanish session this semester, my internet went down, totally. Rang BT, couldn't sort it out. Ended up welcoming all my students on my phone. I guided them towards the resources I had uploaded in their OneNote notebook that I couldn't acces but they could and instructed them to work in small groups in our already created Teams Channels. They were cool, I was a bag of nerves. Internet came back half way through the lesson which was when my breath came back to me.

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There was the day my computer just plain wouldn't connect to Collaborate Ultra for more than about ten minutes. Or the two weeks I spent trying to work with an elderly laptop because I had a bad case of the dodgy RAMs in my main machine.

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When you are trying super hard to use a lot of flashy tools to make online learning and teaching better and more engaging and you absolutely over-estimate students' appetite for and capacity to deal with all of these new things at once.
Lesson learned: tech induction is important, simple tools often better, and less certainly more.

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Use Padlet tool to allow students to anonymously ask questions at the end of a live session, or to confirm their 'muddiest point'.

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When running a session with co-presenters (and many different slide decks) I uploaded one set to Blackboard and didn't notice that when converting to an image file it brought back all the underlying master formatting for their slides. They had to present without them, as the underlying Master text made the actual content impossible to read. Now I warn everybody using BCU to be mindful of this and check slides carefully as they're uploaded.

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I was a little sceptical of Padlet's usefulness in the beginning- but it has great functionality. Apart from discussions like this I saw it used fantastically in the school of Geography and Institute for Transport Studies as an accompaniment to an online graduation. Lots of videos, comments, discussion threads etc. It got me thinking about how it could be used to display information and facilitate interaction on any given subject.

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In one one-hour whole group session (you can call it a 'lecture' if you like) my wifi dropped three times. Luckily, we have been team teaching those sessions so my colleague jumped in and held the fort.

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Many cameras on, smiling faces, a full chat box!

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being evicted from my introductory lecture in collaborate... 

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being evicted from my introductory lecture in collaborate... 

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250 plus students witnessed me disappearing. One student who already knew me emailed me and I directed him to the resources I was going to introduced and he shared the link with the other students during the session in their whatsapp group. ... embarrassing.

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Students carrying on a discussion in the chat between themselves rather than only responding to me

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and their new breakout room function

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A thank you email from a student.

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Sharing a whiteboard at the beginning of the session just for drawing, random words, or whatever, works nicely as an ice breaker. Sometimes I add a prompt eg

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Students co-leading the session with the tutor a mere observer.

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All Students Engaging During Breakout Rooms

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All Students Engaging During Breakout Rooms

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Good, timely information about whether and how students are engaging.

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Good, timely information about whether and how students are engaging.

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If I had all the time in the world, I would like to try out so many tools...

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If I had all the time in the world, I would like to try out so many tools...

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OBS, Itempool (saw that yesterday at the workshop), Flipgrid, Top Hat, Mentimeter, advanced functions in meeting software, ...

It would be great to have some friendly groups where we could test these.

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I've heard quite a bit about this from colleagues who have tried it at the Uni but never had a chance to do it myself. Not sure how it would work online though! ;)

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Go Pro for students to do videos to share their experiences 

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Go Pro for students to do videos to share their experiences 

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This is very simple indeed but...when I'm visiting breakout rooms in Zoom, I turn my video off and rename myself with the number of mins left. e.g. 10 mins left.

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Project students helping each other in the Teams chat and live conversations, without me intervening!

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Project students helping each other in the Teams chat and live conversations, without me intervening!

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Id like to try XR in tutorials

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We are going to use Padlet for student feedback/SSPF next semester. 

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We are going to use Padlet for student feedback/SSPF next semester. 

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Thanks for setting this board up. Really enjoyed reading the comments. Some great inspiration too!

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Thanks for setting this board up. Really enjoyed reading the comments. Some great inspiration too!

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There was an app but then it was switched off

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I'm taking on some new lectures next semester, on animal behaviour. i'm so excited to be bringing decolonisation and critical feminist ideas to some of this very old white man research.

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I recently attended a webinar where I was introduced to this and I would really like to give it a go for some fun Spanish Revision.

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after a nightmare term its been amazing to read some of the best reports from my students. They responded to a couple of qs from The LGA abt BREXIT readiness and offered studies on care, agriculture, env standards, transport infrasrtucture with some brilliant analysis such as using a gender lens to reframe the replacements to structural funds

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id like to use more TV style sets and movies for lectures. I made a short to introduce my module but it was time consuming. this next semester i want to  introduce lectures with 1970s TV show themes (Dave Allan obvs) and see if I can make chunk breaks look like a TV game show 

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id like to use more TV style sets and movies for lectures. I made a short to introduce my module but it was time consuming. this next semester i want to  introduce lectures with 1970s TV show themes (Dave Allan obvs) and see if I can make chunk breaks look like a TV game show 