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.
Guides for a specific tools are listed in the page of the relevant tool, e.g. Blackboard. Select Tools and Software from the left-hand menu and then navigate to the page of the tool.
To find guides on this page, you can look by letter or hit Ctrl+F on your keyboard and enter the word or a relevant keyword to find it.
A
- ABC Learning Design
- Accessing online learning in China
- Assessment options when teaching online
- Assignment planning
- Assignment workflows
B
- Blackboard - start here for guidance on Blackboard Ultra
- Blackboard course design
- Blackboard groups
- Blackboard Tests Workflow
- Breakout Room Toolkit
C
- Camtasia guides
- Automatic Captioning in Replay
- Checking and improving student engagement
- Collaborate guides
- Core standards for online course spaces
- Create audio recording using Audacity
- 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
F
I
K
L
- Lab work alternatives (Word)
- Live (synchronous) sessions - dealing with issues and planning ahead (Word)
- Low-bandwidth teaching advice
M
- Maintain your presence when teaching online
- Mosaic (Re/Play screen recorder) - how to install and use
N
O
- Online Mingles Toolkit
- 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
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
- Turnitin guides
U
- Unit evaluation
- University supported video conferencing options
- Using TurningPoint for polls in a live online session (Word)