The following guidance explains how you can enhance student engagement during face-to-face sessions by incorporating interactive tools and utilising the available lecture theatre equipment. Further information on lecture delivery is available on the On Campus Lectures - Lecture Delivery page.
Below are examples of the tools available to use during your on-campus lecture or workshop and scenarios of how you may choose to use them.
YouTube videos can be beneficial as a discussion starter for topics and concepts e.g. 'What Makes a Good General Practitioner?'.
Embed a YouTube video into your presentation or show on the browser. Following the video, ask students to discuss their ideas in groups or to share their ideas via Poll Everywhere.
Use a word cloud or open-ended question to initiate discussions.
Multiple choice questions (MCQs) or the competition activity are useful to answer questions in Interactive Seminars or Grand Rounds. Remember you can add text and images to questions.
Use a clickable image so students can highlight organs in a diagram, or tumours on an X-ray scan.
Have an open Q&A running throughout your session so students can ask questions without putting their hand up.
Make your interactive sessions competitive! Create a competition activity to test your students' knowledge about a system block/speciality or a lecture recording. Use simple prizes like sweets or School of Medicine merchandise so students can have fun and consolidate their learning at the same time.
For more information on using Poll Everywhere, please see Poll Everywhere Overview.
Physical props can be a useful tool to demonstrate how physiological processes occur. E.g. using a starch digestion experiment to show one of the functions of saliva.
Please note that the use of any physical props or items must be organised and facilitated by the session provider themselves. Please contact the relevant year team in advance if you have any queries.
Utilise your space on Canvas. Add links to:
Then ask students to refer back to these links during your session.
There is equipment available in lecture theatres and large teaching rooms which may help to enhance your session.
The Visualiser is located next to the PC on the desk in each room. It consists of a small camera and an A3 whiteboard-like surface which projects onto the projector screen.
This tool is handy for drawing small diagrams or projecting printed images/text (if these sources are not available online).
The Kaptivo whiteboard is available in selected large lecture theatres. Kaptivo is a programme which projects a large whiteboard onto the projector screen. The red shape on the image below highlights the whiteboard area which is captured by Kaptivo.
This tool is useful for drawing much larger diagrams, ensuring that all students can see what is being drawn.
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