Welcome to our latest newsletter, the first of the new academic year! We hope to keep you updated with some ultra-cool educational tools - for you to read with delight. Furthermore, it is a pleasure to welcome you back for the 2018 - 2019 academic year and we sincerely hope you enjoy reading this newsletter.

Beautiful.AI is a tidy service that helps you to create better PowerPoint presentations.

This presentation tool is the seamless blend of design and function that delivers some striking results with very little effort.

Key Features:

• Editable templates auto-adjust to slide needs
• Free image library
• Export to .ppt or .pdf

Beautifully visualise your concepts with 50+ ready-to-use customisable smart templates.

Microsoft Forms is an easy way of creating surveys and quizzes and gathering the responses.

Users can create a survey in minutes with little or no training needed. Furthermore, respondents can answer the questions on any browser without having to install the application - collecting responses in real-time.

With Microsoft Forms, you can create:

• Surveys: Collect staff and student feedback
• Quizzes: Measure student knowledge, evaluate class progress and focus on topics that need improvement
• Polls: Find out where the team wants to go for the Christmas party!

What are the benefits of Microsoft Forms?

• Microsoft Forms can be customised and embedded on web pages and blogging websites
• Integration with other Office 365 Services
• Microsoft Forms can be shared with anonymous users to collect data

Microsoft Forms is a powerful tool that can be used easily to create surveys, quizzes and questionnaires. Members of staff can use the web-based forms to collect the data by sharing with others.

ePHOTOzine is a great website for photography students. This website has a free membership in which students can create an online portfolio by adding one image per day to the online gallery and their portfolio.

Additionally, you can add up to fifty images per month to your very own online portfolio. This can include information about the image including; tags, description, title and camera settings.

Within ePHOTOzine students can also view the online galleries in which members have submitted their work. This is an awesome tool for inspiration and even has a filter to search images by tags.

ePHOTOzine also includes hundreds of articles, reviews, techniques, competitions and much, much more!

Pros:

• Reviews of camera equipment
• Competitions
• Feedback from photographers

Want to take a look and get to know about ePHOTOzine?

Read more about it below.

All level 2 and level 3 learners have now started their Curriculum 360 sessions for the 18/19 academic year. C360 replaces guided learning hours for all courses so please ensure that learners are completing their weekly tasks whether you are a C360 tutor or not. Learners who fail to complete their weekly tasks are deemed as having not "attended" C360 for that week which should be treated the same as if they had missed a regular lesson.

If you have any queries about C360, please contact James Wells and if your learners require any help, ask them to visit the LRC.

If you have any questions or suggestions of things we can feature in Free and Easy, or if you have an educational tool that you enjoy using - please feel free to let us know!

Email: dj.gunn@mbro.ac.uk
Website: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCAcbsQz6PbkapBzPOi30nQ
Location: Room 1.014A
Phone: 01642 333214
Twitter: @MbroELearning