Surfacing the student voice: Talis Elevate
Talis Elevate enables students to comment opinions and thoughts on resources including text, images, and videos. These comments can be seen, and most importantly replied to, by anyone with access to the document. This empowers staff and students to start rich conversations to stretch, question or clarify information. This also gives students the chance to learn from each other and can provide multiple viewpoints to reflect and analyse. The tool, when supported by a robust pedagogic approach, can result in deeper learning, and provide students with the opportunity to greater levels of engagement with set reading, audio/visual and academic sources.
Benefits:
- Encourages the sharing of opinions and interpretations so that students can consider different perspectives.
- Social annotation creates a stronger sense of community within learning.
- Quieter students are often more likely to contribute to discussions in this format than face-to-face ones.
- Tutors can easily monitor student engagement and elicit conversations with those who are less active.
Jamie Wood uses Talis Elevate within the School of History & Heritage to support students’ development of reading and analysis skills. He uses the tool with his students to form a pre-reading task in preparation for the main lecture. This approach enables students to discuss the key texts before expanding on this conversation during the main synchronous lecture.
More information about how this was embedded can be found here: