Teaching Academy

Encourage your students to learn from each other by creating opportunities for peer interaction

A knowledge of the way students learn can help us design effective courses and help us to advise and guide our students. While the literature on this topic is vast, there are a few key pieces of experimental work that everyone who designs or changes courses should know

The characteristics of effective feedback.

Advice and resources to support the design of course units.

Resources to support effective course delivery.

This webpage contains detailed guidance on how you can combine Blackboard’s Student Preview and adaptive release tools to verify tests or assignments and test out marking process.

Recommended techniques to use in Blackboard tests, to increase the confidence you have in the security, reliability or validity of online assessments.

This webpage details a list of resources and processes you can use to produce high quality screencast videos.

One of the main tasks with a blended learning approach is to produce blended learning material, we anticipate a large amount of this will be video content. This webpage details a list of resources that are available to help give your learning content a more professional touch.

Find out four ways you can monitor student engagement through using Blackboard.