Digital Capabilities for those who teach
While undertaking any of these workshops, you are developing the following capabilities included in the Digital Capabilities Framework for Those Who Teach
| # | Capability |
|---|---|
| 2.1 | Use a range of digital participation and collaboration tools effectively to support teaching practice e.g. SharePoint, OneDrive; MS Teams, VLE Discussion Boards; polling tool; shared calendars |
| 3.5 | Use the university approved digital tools and platforms available to them to build pedagogically sound, engaging and interactive modules for their students and efficiently produce, edit and administer effective learning, teaching and assessment material and learning experiences |
| 3.6 | Combine multiple digital tools to create an output for use in their teaching practice |
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Target Group: All staff members.
Pre-requisites: Have logged into your Microsoft Office account and installed the MS Teams App on your PC.
Learning outcomes:
At the end of this training event, you will be able to:
- Make calls to colleagues within TU Dublin
- Make external calls
- Use text chat to chat colleagues
- Attach files to text chats
Text chats
- Conduct a live text ‘Chat’
- Start new chats with one or more colleagues
- Manage your chats
- Search your chat history
Calls
- Turn a chat into an audio/video call
- Record your voicemail greeting and control its settings
- Listen to voicemails and Read transcript (if available)
- Call one or more colleagues
- Create your personal contact list and speed dial
- Make external calls (PSTN)
Overview: Use the calendar in MS Teams or Outlook to create online meeting invites
Target Group: All TU Dublin Staff
Pre-requisites: Be familiar with the basic functionality of MS Teams (text chat, calls, attended MS Teams remote meetings)
Learning outcomes:
At the end of this webinar, you will be able to:
Distinguish between roles in a meeting: Organiser, Co-Organiser, Presenter, Attendee, Guest
Schedule a meeting from within your Outlook calendar (Web & Desktop version)
- View colleagues’ availability for meetings (Scheduling Assistant)
- Control RSVPs/Disable forwarding
- Add additional attendees after sending an invite
- Create an ‘Open Link’ for a meeting
Schedule a meeting from within your Teams calendar
- Assign presentation role for meetings
Overview: Use the 'Webinar' feature in MS Teams to schedule webinar events for staff members and external partners. Upon registration, via a professionally presented web page, the event is placed automatically into calendar. Manage attendee registration and analyse attendee data for effective follow-up.
Target Group: All TU Dublin Staff
Pre-requisites: Be familiar with the basic functionality of MS Teams (text chat, calls, create a Teams meeting)
Learning outcomes:
At the end of this webinar, you will be able to:
- Distinguish between a Schedule Meeting, Webinar, and a Live event
- Create a professionally presented registration form
- Allow external registrations, Limit number of attendees, set registration start and end time
- Add additional questions to registration form
- Monitor registrations
- Copy registration link and share
- Utilise registration approval and wait listing
- Embed listing in a web page or email
- Duplicate Events
- Customise Follow up emails
Overview: How to best run online meetings
Target Group: All TU Dublin Staff
Pre-requisites: Confident use of MS Teams: Chats, Calls and scheduling and attending meetings
Learning outcomes:
At the end of this webinar, you will be able to:
- Best prepare for various meeting types and sizes, while anticipating ‘joining’ requirements
- Enable meeting options i.e. the lobby, who can present etc
- Share your desktop, window, presentations and documents
- Permit sharing by others
- Invite, mute during a meeting
- Navigate the Control Panel