Teaching Tools

Guidance for staff on using bubble sheets for paper based multiple choice assessments.

Lu Shin Wong, a Senior lecturer in Chemistry, used Gradescope Bubble sheets in a summative exam for over 200 students. Teaching Academy asked Lu Shin about his experiences of using the Gradescope Bubblesheets.

Mentimeter is an interactive presentation tool. Check out this post for links to guidance and further resources.

Find out how to sign up for a licence, create your first Mentimeter presentation or use Mentimeter with your existing Powerpoint slides.

Hypothes.is in a pedagogical tool which supports ‘social annotation’.

This post provides step by step instructions to setup Hypothes.is in Blackboard.

We asked the popular AI Chat bot ChatGPT what it thought the impact of AI on Higher Education would be and what sort of things we as educators should be aware of.

Discussion Boards are available in Blackboard to facilitate conversation between staff and students. External discussion tools are also available to embed in your course space.

What does Piazza do? Piazza is a web based discussion tool that facilitates interaction among instructors and students.  You can create a Piazza class within your course unit and use the class as a single space to manage communications for your unit. Visit the Piazza website for, information on accessibility, a quick start guide and […]

Step-by-step instructions for setting up Piazza for your course.