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While #feedback is crucial to learners, it's also a demanding and time-consuming task. You'd like your students to pay attention to your inputs and work on them in their next #assignments, at the same time it'd be great if you could save some time, 🕰 especially at the end of the term and with large groups. 🎙 If you still haven't considered audio feedback, give it a try. Below we list some main reasons why it may have an advantage over written feedback. In Aula, you have the power to choose either written or audio feedback in both our #assessment tools, Turnitin, and our native one, Handin.

🛠 We needed a #makeover  As you could see here - https://lnkd.in/dnxV5Nxe - Aula started in a very different fashion from what it is nowadays. The #LearningPlatform as it is today was launched 7 years ago, in July 2017. And as you can see here - https://lnkd.in/dRjmFBWb - our #logo has been through some changes that reflected our different phases, from the adaptation of Ublend's one to the first one with the world Aula to the typeface that we currently display. What's your favorite one? #OnlineLearning

➕ The Aula team has had an important addition. We've recently welcomed Priyanka Singh as a Product Manager. We're glad our paths crossed, and we can now work together and collaborate, Priyanka! #Welcome to Aula, and we hope you have a great experience with us. 🎉 🎉 #NewJoiner

"Many of us share our presentations with students after lectures and seminars, but it is good practice to do so beforehand. This gives students time to read and translate slides before lectures and allows them to pay more attention to what you’re saying during the #lecture..." ➕ Our addition to this brilliant post by a University of Chester Senior Lecturer in Education is supplementary materials. Besides the presentation, you can also provide supplementary materials such as lecture notes, recorded lectures, a glossary of key terms, and a #ReadingList before and after lectures to make your #InternationalStudents more comfortable and confident. 💪 #HigherEducation https://lnkd.in/d4tmGAvj

How can institutions help their students keep #MentalHealth while studying? #HigherEducation represents a time in many students’ lives when the university or college embodies all their main activities besides studies, like social networks and support services. This is no simple role in young people's lives, and ensuring students feel mentally healthy helps improve their academic outcomes and can even prevent them from dropping out from their studies before graduation. We've listed below 5 topics for institutions to consider when planning how to offer #counseling and overall assistance to learners. To further explore the matter, you can check our sources, this comprehensive journal available at University of Michigan's https://lnkd.in/dGEsG_V6 and this paper on undergraduate students' mental health at Penn State University https://lnkd.in/dTBsdWUV

The 2nd most used emoji this year is heart, in all its colors! 💜 ❤️ 💛 💚 💙 🖤 🧡 Besides being used as bullet points or to convey #BodyLanguage in text, emojis can also be used to gather #feedback from students. Here is one fun and functional way of working with #emojis in Aula: * If you want students to have the opportunity to virtually raise their hands without calling too much attention, you can ask them to react to your post in the feed with an emoji. It's more effective if you say which emojis they should use, for example: "React with a ✔ if you don't have any other questions or with a ➕ if the content needs clarification." * If suitable, you may also be fun and ask them to react with a 🍔 if the content was helpful or with a 🍟 if they actually needed something else, for instance. Oh, and number 1 in our podium so far is the traditional and concise 👍 Click on the article below to read more on the use of emojis in Aula. #OnlineLearning https://lnkd.in/dF8BSwVk

🤝 Cultivate a #community of people It's one of the central principles in Brand #Management, and also what Aula facilitates with its messages and other means offered to interact with peers and tutors online. Learners and educators can choose whatever makes them feel more comfortable when taking part in the conversation.

Are you qualified to #PhD level and member and/or accredited from an appropriate regulatory/professional organization (e.g. NMC)? 🙋♀️ 🙋♂️ Maybe you're the #Senior Lecturer that our partner, University of the West of Scotland, is seeking for the School of Health & Life Sciences. Check the link below to hear more about this opportunity directly from them. #HigherEducation https://lnkd.in/dMSFYq5j

See you later? 👀 As much as we're sad to see #teammates departing, we love when we can still keep in touch! That's why our Slack has a channel called #Alumni, aimed at staying in touch with those we no longer see every day. There they can exchange pictures of what they've been up to lately, set to meet in person somewhere, or whatever crosses their minds. How about you? Do you stay in touch with former coworkers?

When it's time to leave... 🚪 You can just remove yourself from an old teaching space! No need to stay anchored to previous spaces that are cluttering your list. #Educators have the ability to remove themselves from an Aula space in the Participants tab. Find the step-by-step in our #support article below. https://lnkd.in/dRVrcp85