Curation · Data literacy · Digital research and scholarship · forms

#661 All your MS Forms in a muddle? Here’s how to get them organised!

If you use MS Forms a lot, you might find it useful to explore the Collections feature, which works like a folder for your forms. It’s really easy to get set up, just don’t forget you need to be in the “All my forms” area to see your collections. Take a look at this short… Continue reading #661 All your MS Forms in a muddle? Here’s how to get them organised!

#1minuteCPD · Accessibility · Communication / Collaboration · Data literacy · Digital communication · Digital communication, collaboration and participation (participating) · E-portfolios · ICT proficiency · JISC: 6 elements of digital capability · MMU: ISS Themes · Mobile · OneNote · Timesavers · Top tip · Windows

#644 Microsoft Class Notebook: Accessibility options with the Dictate tool

In this short video I’ll show you the great dictate featre within Microsoft OneNote – it allows you to dictate straight into the app and you are able to translate the dictation in to many different languages.

Data literacy · Timesavers · Top tip · Working with Data

#603 Alphabetise any list with The Alphabetizer

The Alphabetizer is a free web-based tool that lets you – unsurprisingly – alphabetise lists. All you need to do is copy and paste your unordered list into the text box and click ‘Alphabetize’. It’s very useful if you quickly want to organise lists without using Excel or doing it manually. There are also other… Continue reading #603 Alphabetise any list with The Alphabetizer

Data literacy · Information literacy · Media literacy · Video · Working with Data · YouTube

#521 Video contains confidential information? Blur it out!

As we saw previously in post #511 Need anonymity? Blur those faces in YouTube! the YouTube editor has a great blurring tool – but it isn’t just for faces! If you have recorded a video that contains sensitive or confidential data, then you can highlight regions in the video to blur out. You don’t even… Continue reading #521 Video contains confidential information? Blur it out!

Data literacy · Excel · Timesavers · Top tip · Working with Data

#496 Add up more than 24 hours in Excel

This top tip helped me recently when adding up the duration of a number of videos for a project. The duration of the videos were in the 24 hour clock format and when I added the duration together the result was not as I expected. The answer was to change the format of the cells… Continue reading #496 Add up more than 24 hours in Excel

Communication / Collaboration · Data literacy · Information, data and media literacy (critical use) · Microsoft Office · MMU: ISS Themes · Timesavers · Working with Data

#488 Branched Microsoft Forms

Microsoft forms allows you to create branched forms where you can direct respondents depending on there responses. This allows you to present questions based on the input of previous questions creating more sophisticated interactions. This simple example shows you how you can get started. Photo by Zach Reiner on Unsplash