Teaching Academy

In this video, Associate Dean Andrew Weightman discusses how he planned his unit with James Brooks and Francesca Demontis.

In this video James Brooks walks through how he adapted his existing exam into an ‘open book’ format.

Powerpoint has a screen recording tool that allows you to capture your screen and audio to create your online blended learning materials. This webpage details how you can do this.

Microsoft Sway is an online authoring platform that can be used to produce web friendly content such as newsletters or presentations. The webpage gives and overview of the benefits of using Sway.

A step-by-step guide on how to build an online test in Blackboard for use in an examination.

A list of short courses that will help you adapt your teaching methods for online delivery.

The eLearning team have worked with a number of academic colleagues to develop some Interactive Learning Applications. This webpage details some of these projects and explores the potential for using these applications in your teaching.

Visualisations such as annotated videos and animations can be used to explain complex scientific principles and help students understand abstract concepts and cement the learning. The eLearning Team can help produce high quality visualisations and animations.

Resources to support publishing your own research into your teaching or finding out more about pedagogical research in your discipline.

Our colleagues in the Faculty of Humanities have come up with a method whereby students can upload their videos to the University’s Video Portal, and paste the generated link into Blackboard. This will enable you to view the videos in the Blackboard assignment tool, without placing a strain on Blackboard’s servers.