Introduction to Padlet
Padlet enables you to create 'online boards' where students, tutors and colleagues can share and collaborate. With a variety of board types, support for files and multimedia and simple sharing options, Padlet is a versatile tool for synchronous and asynchronous activities.
What can you use Padlet for?
Padlet is a flexible tool that enables you to share and collaborate in a variety of different ways. Padlet provides a variety of board types including wall, shelf, canvas, stream, timeline, backchannel, map and grid. See some examples in the Padlet Gallery.
You can use padlet to support and facilitate a number of different activities with students and colleagues:
- Discussions
- Group work
- Question and answer gathering
- Collate and share resources including files images, videos and audio
- Online portfolios
- Idea gathering
- "Thought" mapping
- Gathering feedback
- As social spaces
- Inspiration board
- Flowcharts and diagrams
Who can use Padlet?
Staff and students, with an ITS account, can sign up for a Warwick Padlet account and create their own padlets. To gice access to Contributors and Moderators a Warwick Padlet account is required. However, Padlet has options to allow anyone, whether they have a Warwick Padlet account or not, to access and edit padlets.
How can I access Padlet?
To log in to Padlet in a web browser:
- Ensure your account has been set up by following the Set up a Padlet account guide.
- Go to warwick.padlet.org.
- Click on Log in with Microsoft.
- Enter your email address in this format: username@live.warwick.ac.uk (e.g. u1234567@live.warwick.ac.uk).
- Enter your University IT account username (e.g. u1234567).
- Enter your University IT account password.
- Complete two-step authentication.
- Welcome to Padlet.
Padlet is available as mobile app for both Android and Apple devices.
- Ensure your account has been set up by following the Set up a Padlet account guide.
- Download the Padlet app from your Play or Apple Store.
- Open the app.
- Click on Log in.
- Click on Log in to your org in the bottom.
- Enter 'warwick' as domain.
- Click on Continue.
- Click on Log in with Microsoft.
- Enter your email address in this format: username@live.warwick.ac.uk (e.g. u1234567@live.warwick.ac.uk).
- Click on Continue.
- Complete two-step authentication.
- Welcome to Padlet.
Is Padlet accessible?
Padlet is not fully accessible as it does not meet the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standard however, they are working toward it. The main issues are:
- Keyboard access: The log in page and dashboard can be navigated with a keyboard however, posts cannot be created or edited by keyboard only. No workaround.
- Alternative descriptions for images, video and links: Alternative descriptions are not supported on images, videos and links. Descriptions should be added to the body of posts.
- Low vision colour contrast: The colour contrast is not sufficient for low vision users. A browser extension can be installed to increase contrast.
Please visit the Padlet Accessibility page for the latest information on accessibility.
Alternatives to Padlet
UCL have gathered together some examples of alternative tools for common Padlet activities.
Alternatives for Digital Walls like Padlet
Where can I get more information and help on using Padlet?
Padlet have a comprehensive knowledgebase of guides, videos and advice.
Start with The basics for Educators video.
Contents
- Introduction to managing course participants
- Make your course visible to students
- Check participants
- Enrolment methods and managing access permissions
- Enrol participants using Warwick auto-enrolment
- Manually enrol participants onto a Moodle space
- Roles and their functions in Moodle
- Switch to another role
- Create groups
- Create groupings
- Using group mode with activities
- Enable activity completion
- Mark activity completion manually
- Track activity completion
- Course completion
- Course participation
- Introduction to assessment and feedback
- Create a fail / pass scale
- Create a custom certificate
- Create and manage badges
- Reports, logs and completion data in Moodle
- Create an assignment
- Create an assignment for group submission
- Set up Turnitin within an assignment
- Create and grade a submission using a rubric
- Use a marking workflow for assignments
- Blind marking
- Allocate markers to specific submissions
- Provide grades and feedback for individual assignments
- Check the status of submissions
- Hide or show grades and feedback
- Introduction to eStream
- Access your eStream content
- Uploading videos to eStream
- Edit videos in eStream
- Edit video thumbnail
- Uploading a closed captions (subtitles) file to eStream
- Add eStream videos to Mahara
- Sharing eStream videos to Moodle
- Sharing an eStream video with a link
- Setup a video assignment in Moodle
- Introduction to Vevox
- Get help with Vevox
- Converting from Turning Point to Vevox
- Polling in PowerPoint using the Vevox add-in
- Polling and Q&A all running within the Vevox dashboard
- Polling in PowerPoint, plus Q&A
- Request a Vevox account
- Information about Vevox for students
- Use Teams with Vevox personal response system