Using MS Teams as platform for delivery of training and learning

Hi, we are using MS Teams as the platform for delivering IT training to users of up to 8 at a time.  Does anyone have advice on what Apps are good to use as there seems to be a wealth and it's easy to get lost down the rabbit hole so to speak once yo

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Running an (un)conference live online

In New Zealand an organisation ran an unconference (where the agenda isn't pre-set and is built by the attendees on the day). They shared a great amount of their learning about the organisation, communication and technology.

There's a big PDF (with l

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Anonymous Feedback on Zoom Webinars

Hi there, Margaret McCabe here from 3D Development,does anyone know how to get some anonymous feedback from participants during a live Webinar on

Zoom please?

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Contribute to Cindy Huggett's research

For the last few years Cindy Huggett has conducted and shared research about virtual training. Click here to see the 2019 data. 

You can now contribute to the latest research Cindy is doing. Click here to complete the survey. 

 

On a much smaller lev

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are you having particular problems with adobe connect?

hi

are any of you experiencing particular problems with adobe connect?

We are really challenged by it at the moment - it kicks people out regularly and the voice and sound are incredibly unstable.  Sometimes people can use their mics and sometimes they

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Virtual classroom live Q&A - June 2nd

The next Q&A webinar will be on the 2nd of June 12:00 noon UK time.

REGISTER HERE

You can see the first Q&A we ran HERE

Drop your questions down below to make sure they get answered first in the live session.

The recording will be uploaded to Youtube

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Zoom security update - Article

Hi all,

As you likely know from our post about ZOOMBOMBING which has details about how we survived and some links to news articles with how Zoom were helping deal with them.

I found an article today that details how Zoom has acquired a new company to

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Zoom calls causing stress and fatigue

I read this article from the BBC today and thought I must share it here! - https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200421-why-zoom-video-chats-are-so-exhausting

I thought I was the only one who gets tired and stressed dealing with all these video calls

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help! whiteboard content disappeared when we came out of a breakout in adobe

hi all,

we had a bit of a nightmare this morning when adobe connect broke down right at the start of our pilot programme for cybersecurity. 

by the afternoon it was back  but we had a problem with the breakout rooms.

when we came back out of them and tr

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Where to start with virtual delivery?

Recently we have been asked the following a lot:

How I do start my journey with live online learning?

What do I need to do to start facilitating virtually?

How can i convert my face to face sessions into virtual classrooms.

What platform do I need fo

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Zoom - screen setup

Hi all,

A lot of people are using Zoom for meetings and learning, and sometimes struggling to share their screen as well as see the participants and chat panel. 

This isn't the setup I use, but it's a great option if you have some kind of second scre

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OLX – Rapidly put your learning online – MOOC from LearningPool

Hi everyone, 

There is a new, free MOOC (massive open online course) all about rapidly putting your learning online. It's great for the time we are currently in with Covid-19 changing our learning and working practices, but it's also been designed to

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