#1minuteCPD · Accessibility · AI Technology · Communication / Collaboration · Digital creation · Digital creation, innovation and scholarship (creative production) · JISC: 6 elements of digital capability · MMU: ISS Themes · Recording your screen · Top tip · Video · Windows

#728 Microsoft Clip Champ: Text to Speech

The free* Microsoft Clip Champ video editor has some fantastic features, including the Text to Speech facility. In this video, we’ll demonstrate this and also show you how to add it to your videos.

Communication / Collaboration · Digital creation · PowerPoint

#727 Updated! How to save a Canva presentation to PowerPoint

We love Canva here! And find their presentation templates to be really helpful for creating great looking decks, however sometimes you need to put things into PowerPoint so you can present offline or want to use the presentaion tools in Teams. Luckily for us Canva include an option to download to PowerPoint which creates a… Continue reading #727 Updated! How to save a Canva presentation to PowerPoint

#1minuteCPD · Accessibility · Communication / Collaboration · Digital creation · Digital creation, innovation and scholarship (creative production) · JISC: 6 elements of digital capability · MMU: ISS Themes · Top tip · Video · Windows

#724 Clip Champ: How to add and edit captions

Continuing with Clip Champ (we’ll be experts soon!) Adding captions is easy and has the added benefit that it is actually embedded within the video (eg not reliant on the browser or platform that you use). We’ll show you how to add and edit captions – we even throw in a bit of text-to-speech too… Continue reading #724 Clip Champ: How to add and edit captions

Communication / Collaboration · Digital communication · Teams

#723 How to set a status duration in Teams

When you need to concentrate, Teams can prove to be a distraction. You can help to manage that by either setting your status to Do Not Disturb or Appear Offline, the only trouble is remembering to reset it when you are done! This handy tip shows you how to set a duration to your temporary… Continue reading #723 How to set a status duration in Teams

Communication / Collaboration · Digital communication · Digital participation · ICT proficiency · Teams

#719 Teams chat notifications causing a distraction? Mute them!

In-call notifications for chat messages can quickly become an annoying distraction, particularly in large meetings with a busy back channel. To stop these annoying pop-ups you can quickly and easily mute the chat. In the video below we show how to do this from within the Teams call and how to do it from the… Continue reading #719 Teams chat notifications causing a distraction? Mute them!

#1minuteCPD · Digital creation · Digital creation, innovation and scholarship (creative production) · JISC: 6 elements of digital capability · Video · Windows

#718 ClipChamp: More timeline options

In this 1minuteCPD, we look at some further options on the timeline, such as clip speed, clip effects and zoom options. Be sure to check out the previous ClipChamp videos here: Overview of ClipChamp Adding content to ClipChamp Focus on the timeline

#1minuteCPD · Digital creation · Digital creation, innovation and scholarship (creative production) · JISC: 6 elements of digital capability · Video · Windows

#716 ClipChamp: Focus on the timeline

In this 1minuteCPD video, we take a closer look at the timeline in ClipChamp to make sure you understand what happens when you add videos, sounds, transitions and sound effects. The timeline is the story of your video – it determines what the users see, how long for and what music or audio plays in… Continue reading #716 ClipChamp: Focus on the timeline

Accessibility · AI Technology · Assessment · Assessment · Digital communication · Digital wellbeing · Word

#714 Faster at talking then typing? Try Word online to dictate your feedback!

In this video walk-through, we show you how you can use Word online to dictate your written feedback. Once dictated, you can then copy and paste the feedback into your feedback tool. Perfect for if you prefer talking to typing! You can even set it to do your punctuation automatically too. 

#1minuteCPD · Digital creation · Digital creation, innovation and scholarship (creative production) · JISC: 6 elements of digital capability · Video · Windows

#712 ClipChamp: Adding content to library and using the timeline

In this video (as part of the ClipChamp series) I’ll show you how to add media content (MP3, MP4, images) to the ClipChamp library and then how to use these in the timeline. The timeline is your ‘production’ stage where you can add content and decide on the duration of the media. We’ll explore more… Continue reading #712 ClipChamp: Adding content to library and using the timeline