Tools We Support

Blackboard (Bb) is UoM’s Central Learning Environment. Bb includes its own testing tool which can be used for assignments, tests and exams.

Cadmus facilitates the whole assessment cycle from assessment design through to release of grades and feedback, as well as providing insights into student engagement with an assignment over time.

Gradescope is a tool designed for the submission and marking of handwritten work (e.g. maths and stats) and computer code. It allows AI-assisted, bubblesheet and standard marking.

Mentimeter is an interactive polling and presentation tool that can be used to enhance both online and face-to-face sessions, allowing you to assess student learning in real-time and monitor levels of engagement.

Möbius is an online testing and content delivery system. It is includes many types of online questions, but has powerful functionality for questions involving maths and stats.

Optical mark recognition (OMR) is the process of automatically processing paper-based multiple choice question papers (AKA bubblesheets).

Similar to Mentimeter, PointSolutions (formerly TurningPoint) in an interactive polling tool. You can conduct in-class polls and manage results entirely online while teaching either remotely or in-person.

Turnitin/Feedback Studio is used for plagiarism prevention, online submission of coursework and for the return of grades and feedback online.

VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slideshow that can include text, images, documents, audio and video.  VoiceThreads can be ungraded or set up as graded assignments.

Hypothes.is is a tool for annotating on the web. It’s a great tool for engaging with webpages and webhosted PDFs in a collaborative way between students and academics.

Mentimeter is an interactive polling and presentation tool that can be used to enhance both online and face-to-face sessions, allowing you to assess student learning in real-time and monitor levels of engagement.

MS Teams is a digital hub that brings communication, collaboration and formative assessment together in one place. Microsoft Teams is a cloud-based software that is part of the Office 365 suite.

Padlet is an easy to use, virtual bulletin board and digital canvas – an excellent collaboration tool for both teachers and learners.

Piazza is a collaboration tool where students can ask, answer, and explore 24/7, under the guidance of their instructors. It incorporates a fuller range of features compared to similar tools like Blackboard’s own discussion forums.

Similar to Mentimeter, PointSolutions (formerly TurningPoint) in an interactive polling tool. You can conduct in-class polls and manage results entirely online while teaching either remotely or in-person.

VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slideshow that can include text, images, documents, audio and video, and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in several ways – using voice, text, audio or video.

Gradescope is a tool designed for the submission and marking of handwritten work (e.g. maths and stats) and computer code. It allows AI-assisted, bubblesheet and standard marking.

Möbius is an online testing and content delivery system. It is includes many types of online questions, but has powerful functionality for questions involving maths and stats.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is the easiest and most comprehensive method of finding suitable TV and radio broadcasts which can be embedded in your Blackboard courses and accessed by students within the UK.

We have a whole section about using multimedia in your teaching, including copyright information and a list of online media collections.

An overview explaining the relevance of reusable online teaching resources for your Blackboard courses. These are also known as Open Educational Resources (OERs).

Collaborate is a real-time video conferencing tool available in all Blackboard courses. It allows you to deliver and record lectures at your desk, and to interact with participants via audio, webcam, screen sharing and/or written text chat.

MS Teams is a digital hub that brings communication, collaboration and formative assessment together in one place. Microsoft Teams is a cloud-based software that is part of the Office 365 suite.