Guides

A

• ABC Learning Design
• Accessing online learning in China
• Active learning ideas for physically distanced settings (Word)
• Add a profile picture in Blackboard
• Adding feedback using Rubrics (Video, 3 mins)
• Adding recordings from previous years - Quick start guide (Word, 39KB)
• Assessment options when teaching online

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B

• Blackboard course design (PDF, 1.3 MB)
• Blackboard course spaces – 10 ideas (Word, 54KB)
• Blackboard groups - Staff quick start guide (Word)
• Blackboard guide - working in groups (YouTube, 1 min)
• Blackboard guides
• Blackboard: staff quick start guide (PDF, 301KB)
• Blackboard surveys
• Blackboard surveys - Set up and use (PDF, 618 KB)
• Blackboard tests (organisation)
• Blackboard tests - Recommended test settings for high stakes exams (PDF, 830KB)

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C

• Camtasia guides
• Collaborate - Best practice guide (Word, 49KB)
• Collaborate FAQs
• Collaborate guides
• Collaborate - online tutorial
• Collaborate - 10 ideas (Word, 56KB)
• Communicating with students through Blackboard (Word, 45KB)
• Course design tips – make things easy for your students to find (Word, 54KB)
• Core standards for online course spaces
• Create audio recording using Audacity - Quick start guide (Word, 64KB)
• Create tests and surveys in Blackboard
• Creating and using rubrics for various types of assessment, by University of Wisconsin Stout

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D

• Designing and running online tests
• Digital Accessibility
• Digital Accessibility solutions with Blackboard Ally
• Digital written annotation (PDF, 100KB)
• Discussion forum - Quick start guide (Word, 147KB)
• Discussion forum moderation (Word, 37KB)
• Discussion forums – 10 ideas (PDF, 121KB)
• Designing for online and highly blended learning (Word, 47KB)
• Drawing or writing by hand online (Web guide - text & videos)
• Drawing or writing by hand online (Word, 59KB)

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E

• E-learning projects in Medicine
• EMA guides
• Estimating online learning time (PDF)
• Extended course design guide

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F

• Film and television resources available through the Library

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G

• Grade blogs in Blackboard
• Grade discussions in Blackboard
• Grade journals in Blackboard

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H

• How to add files, images, audio or video in Blackboard
• How to check and improve student engagement

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K

• Keeping PowerPoints small

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L

• Lab work alternatives (Word, 36KB)
• Low-bandwidth teaching advice

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M

• Media and video in teaching

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N

• Narrated PowerPoint FAQs

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O

• Online assessment guides
• Online submissions
• Online submission and marking - EMA guides
• Online training
• Online tutorials guides
• Open Education Resources

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P

• Padlet - how to embed in Blackboard (Video, 1 min)
• Providing audio or video feedback (PDF, 179KB)
• Providing audio or video feedback (Video, 7 mins)

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Q

• Questionmark guides

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R

• Re/Play guides
• Resource Lists: guidance for staff
• Record narrated PowerPoint - Quick start guide (Word, 45KB)
• Reducing screen time in your unit
• Running and invigilating online assessments (including exams) with Blackboard (PDF, 659KB)

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S

• Self and peer assessment guides
• Shared use of Office 365 documents
• Sharing and collaboration in Microsoft OneDrive
• Student Portfolios
• Student Response Systems (eg live polling) guides
• Synchronous Online Teaching with Blackboard Collaborate Online Training Course (10 mins)

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T

• Teaching and learning guidance, including Norms for teaching and learning in a blended learning environment
• 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, 32KB)
• Turnitin guides

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U

• Unit evaluation
• University supported Video conferencing options
• Uploading videos to Replay and embedding them in Blackboard (Word)
• Using the content editor in Blackboard
• Using TurningPoint for polls in a live online session (Word)

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X

• Xerte guides

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