Adding Camtasia video files to Blackboard

This short video shows how to add a video produced using Camtasia Studio to a Blackboard course

Using Turning Point to create zapper questions that assess confidence levels in the answers given

This 5-minute video describes how you can assess how confident your students were with their answer choices so you can adapt your teaching appropriately.

An Introduction to Adobe Connect

This 7-minute video shows you how to create a web-conferenced meeting using Adobe Connect, welcome the participants, communicate using sound and video, and share resources.

Educational Podcasts

This 6-minute video provides a brief introduction to the educational use of podcasts, how to create them and the technology used.

New Brand PowerPoint template for teaching - how to use it

This short video show you how to download the template and use it with PowerPoint to create new presentations and apply it to existing presentations.

New Brand PowerPoint template - good practice advice

This short video introduces the new teaching templates and provides advice about good slide design

Using Turning Point to Analyse Data from a Zapper Session

This short video shows how you can save the date at the end of a Turning Point quiz, then view that data as an Excel spreadsheet.

Using the Turning Point Participant Monitor During Zapper Quizzes

This 4-minute video describes how to use the Turning Point Participant Monitor to review the performance of the whole group and individual students during a lecture.

School of Mathematics Computing Guide

Guide for computing in the School of Mathematics. Intended for new staff and PG students. Originally written by Anton Prowse from a number of earlier documents.

Changing text and background colours in Adobe Acrobat

A 4-minute video that shows how students with dyslexia or visual stress can change the text and background colours in Adobe Acrobat Reader to suit their needs.

Re-using (rescheduling) an Adobe Connect meeting for a new date, time and participants

A two-minute video that shows you how to edit an existing meeting in Adobe Connect so you can re-use that meeting room for a new date, time and (if needed) different participants.

Creating Effective Conference Posters

This is a 9-minute narrated video of the PowerPoint presentation of the same name

Digital Economy USRG podcast - Twitter

A video podcast plus MP3 of a 30 minute presention on the use of Twitter to build a digital presence.

How to import files from your J drive into Teamsite

An update to Java meant that you can only import files into Teamsite from your 'My Documents' folder, which isn't much use if they are all stored on your J drive. This video shows you how to fix the problem.

How to highlight selected text on a PowerPoint slide

This short 7-minute video shows two methods which can be used to highlight selected words or phrases on a PowerPoint slide.