Accounts that join with a KCTCS email start with a Student role. That’s enough to post on padlets and explore.
To build padlets for a course, you need a Teacher account. Opening Padlet from inside your Blackboard course may set that up for you. If it doesn’t, email Stephanie Self about Teacher access.
Padlet admin: Stephanie Self manages OCTC’s Padlet account. Padlet problems go to her, not OCTC IT. Students are told to bring Padlet problems to you first.
Already have a personal Padlet account? Use your KCTCS email for course padlets, so they belong to OCTC’s account.
Learn Padlet
Training and videos
Padlet PD 101
Padlet’s professional development course for educators. Finish it to earn Padlet’s certificate, then submit the certificate on your PD tracker.
Short how-to videos and micro-lessons on posting, presenting, and creating, plus recorded and live Padlet Sessions. Log in first. The PD certification link appears for Teacher accounts.
Students have their own page, Using Padlet (opens in a new tab), on adding and changing a post. Link it in your directions the first time students use Padlet.
In Padlet, open Share and copy the padlet’s link.
In Blackboard, add the link next to the activity it belongs to, with a sentence about what students should post.
A web link opens the padlet full size and works well on a phone. Padlet also offers embed code, but an embedded padlet in a Blackboard Document is cramped and harder to use.
Before students post
Choose whether posts show students’ names or are anonymous, and tell students which.
Turn on post approval if you want to see posts before the class does.
Check the padlet’s privacy setting under Share so only the people you intend can open it.
If you copied a padlet or a template, recheck its Share settings. Copies don’t always keep them, and Padlet updates can change them. Open the link in a private browser window to see what students will see.
Students who get an error opening your padlet are told to try another browser, then contact you, because the sharing settings are the usual cause.
Give each column or section a clear prompt, so students know where their post goes.
Tell students not to post personal information, passwords, or anything private about other people.
Ask students to describe any image they post in a sentence, so everyone can follow along.
Open the padlet on a phone and in student view before class.
