Using the Turning Point Showbar during zapper quizzes

This 7-minute video describes how Turning Point's Showbar can be used to manage questions during a presentation and includes useful techniques such as peer instruction and data slicing.

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.

PowerPoint Teaching Template - UoS blue flat.ppt

This PowerPoint file can be used as a template for teaching presentations. This version has a solid blue background and pale grey text on the title slide and all subsequent content slides.

PowerPoint Teaching Template - UoS blue & grey.ppt

This PowerPoint file can be used as a template for teaching presentations. This version has a blue fade background and pale grey text on the title slide and pale grey background and blue text on subsequent content slides.

PowerPoint Teaching Template - UoS blue fade.ppt

This PowerPoint file can be used as a template for teaching presentations. This version has a blue fade background and pale grey text on the title slide and all subsequent content slides.

PowerPoint Teaching Template - UoS light grey.ppt

This PowerPoint file can be used as a template for teaching presentations. This version has a pale grey background and dark blue text on the title slide and all subsequent content slides.

PowerPoint Teaching Template - UoS bluegreen fade.ppt

This PowerPoint file can be used as a template for teaching presentations. This version has a blue-green fade background and pale grey text on the title slide and all subsequent content slides.

New Brand PowerPoint templates for teaching

The templates plus a couple of videos showing how to use them

Getting Started with Blackboard and E-Learning

A PowerPoint used to start a discussion about the nature of e-learning, and showing how Blackboard can be used to support independent learning by students.

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

A PowerPoint presentation that outlines the key issues that people planning a conference poster need to consider.

Tools to Create a Poster Using PowerPoint 2010

This step-by-step guide introduces the PowerPoint 2010 features that can be used to create attractive posters. For example, guidelines to help elements align neatly and text boxes with margins.

Printing PowerPoint Posters

This is a step-by-step guide for students who wish to print low-cost posters created using PowerPoint on large-format printers maintained by iSolutions.