Guides
This page contains an alphabetical list of Teaching Online guides aimed at staff.
If you are looking for guides aimed at students, you will find them in Student support.
You can look by letter or hit Ctrl+F on your keyboard and enter the word or a relevant keyword to find it in the page.
A
- ABC Learning Design
- Accessing online learning in China
- Adding recordings from previous years - Quick start guide (Word)
- Assessment options when teaching online
- Assignment planning
- Assignment workflows
B
- Blackboard
- Blackboard course design
- Blackboard groups
- Blackboard Tests Workflow
- Breakout Room Toolkit
C
- Camtasia guides
- Automatic Captioning in Replay
- Collaborate - Best practice guide (Word)
- Collaborate guides
- Collaborate - 10 ideas (Word, 56KB)
- Communicating with students through Blackboard (Word)
- Core standards for online course spaces
- Create audio recording using Audacity - Quick start guide (Word)
- Creating and using rubrics for various types of assessment, by University of Wisconsin Stout
D
- Desktop recorder (now Mosaic) quick start guide
- Digital Accessibility
- Digital Accessibility solutions with Blackboard Ally
- Digital written annotation (PDF)
- Discussion forum - setting up, managing, moderating, activity ideas, strategies for large groups
- Designing for online and highly blended learning
- Drawing or writing by hand online
E
- Effective breakout groups (Word)
- E-learning projects in Medicine
- EMA guides
- Estimating online learning time (PDF)
F
G
H
I
K
L
- Lab work alternatives (Word)
- Live (synchronous) sessions - dealing with issues and planning ahead (Word)
- Low-bandwidth teaching advice
M
N
O
- Online assessment guides
- Online Mingles Toolkit
- Online submission and marking - EMA guides
- Online tests
- Online training
- Online tutorials guides
- Open Education Resources
P
- Padlet - Setup, permissions and examples
- Planning an assessment that requires students to submit handwritten or hand drawn materials
Q
R
- Re/Play guides
- Re/Play: Uploading, enhancing and adding videos to your course
- Resource Lists: guidance for staff
- Recording video at home - a practical guide
- Record narrated PowerPoint - Quick start guide (Word)
- Recording and captioning lectures for asynchronous delivery
- Reducing file sizes
- Reducing screen time in your unit
S
- Self and peer assessment guides
- Shared use of Office 365 documents
- Sharing and collaboration in Microsoft OneDrive
- Student Response Systems (eg live polling) guides
- Study Lounge Toolkit
- Summative tests
- Synchronous Online Teaching with Blackboard Collaborate Online Training Course (10 mins)
T
- Teaching online guidance
- Teaching to the void
- The changing landscape of assessment: some possible replacements for unseen, time-constrained, face-to-face invigilated exams, Sambell and Brown (Word, 87KB)
- Think mobile – check what content is supported in the Blackboard app
- Tips to maintain your presence when teaching online (Word)
- Turnitin guides
U
- Unit evaluation
- University supported video conferencing options
- Using TurningPoint for polls in a live online session (Word)