This toolkit brings together resources, tools, exemplars and videos mostly which have been developed by members of UNSW’s teaching community who use Active Learning in their virtual classroom to engage their students. Get inspired, read, watch, download, and feel free to share these resources with your peers and colleagues across our UNSW community.
Guides
- Active Learning at UNSW
- Quick Start Guide for teaching online – Teaching Remotely sharepoint site
- Active Learning Guide
- Active Learning Reference and Research Resource Guide
- Reflection for learning: a scholarly practice guide for educators
- Best Practice Guides for Teaching Remotely
Articles
- Pedagogical Advice on Online Teaching and Learning
- UNSW Beliefs About Learning
- Three tips for getting started with online teaching
- Key Strategies for effective Tutorials
- Fostering a strong community in a virtual classroom
- Can you flip an Online Class?
- Looking for ‘Flippable’ moments in your class (article)
Media
- Teaching Online: Recordings from Education Focussed Workshops
- Live Streaming your Lecture Video Tutorials
Resources
- Course Map Template
- Instructions how to use the Course Map Template
- Checklist to help you prepare for Active Learning in your virtual class
- Being Digital – Scientia Education Experience Presentation by Dr Victoria Clout
- Facilitating Synchronous Live Stream Classes Presentation by Dr Victoria Clout
- Facilitating Asynchronous Online Environments Presentation by Dr Victoria Clout
Online Courses
Guides
- Guide to Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
- Quick Start Guide to MS Teams for Education
- Guide on MS Teams Meeting Recording and Sharing Screens
- Tips and Tricks: Teachers Educators on Zoom
- Quick Start Guide to Zoom
- Echo360 Universal Capture Guide for Lecture Recordings
Resources
- Software Feature Comparison – Blackboard Collaborate Ultra and MS Teams
- Software Feature Comparison – MS Teams and Zoom
- Create your own Lecture Recording using PowerPoint – William Armour UNSW Engineering
- Resources for Remote Learning and Teaching Using MS Teams
- Tips for Using Zoom for Teaching
- A.I.D.E Chatbot
Media
- Webinars for teaching using MS Teams by David Kellerman
- Video User Guides for Blackboard Collaborate
- Online Teaching Video Guides for Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, Echo 360 Universal Capture, Lecture Recording Using MS PowerPoint
- Helpful Moodle Tutorials
- Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Tutorials
- MS Teams Live Events and Meetings Tutorials
Tools
Guides
- A Student Guide on how to interact with your teachers and fellow classmates in a virtual classroom
- Top Tips for supporting student learning online
- Guide to integrating Flexibility Week as part of active student learning
Articles
- Techniques to engage students online
- Classroom Discussion: Professors Share Favourite Strategies for Engaging Students
- Synchronous Online Classes: 10 Tips for Engaging Students
- Teaching as Storytelling: ‘Choose your own adventure’ experiment
- 10 tips for managing low engagement of your students online
- Building effective groups for remote learning
Media
Resources
- Active Learning Initiative: Supporting Academic Staff in Active Learning Spaces – Joanna Kartheritsas presentation
- Making Teamwork work in Online Classes - Presentation by Dr Victoria Clout
- What do Students need from you? - Presentation by Dr Victoria Clout & Dr Natalie Oh
- How-to Make Group Work Collaborative in Online Courses
- Sharing Content in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
- Using the Chat Box in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra effectively
- Polling in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
- Becoming a Great Online Learner during COVID-19
Student Support
- Head to Health (AU Govt Support website)
- Resources for Trauma – Aware Online Teaching
- How to keep the Human Element in Online Classes
- Including a ‘note of care’ in your course syllabus – One way to try to show your students you care
- Student Suggestion Box
Exemplars
- Online Orientation for Students
UNSW Business School exemplar (Linking the physical campus to the virtual one) - Career Accelerator: Essentials Course
UNSW Business School Exemplar
Templates
- Template Slides for your virtual class – Dr Victoria Clout (Presentation templates)
Standby Slide for Students
Welcome Slide Pack for your Virtual Class
Netiquette Slide for your Virtual Class
Guides
- Scaling Education – EF Community of Practice (CoP) Guide
- Session Settings in BBC for Large Classes
- Managing Large Classes in Zoom
Articles
- What do you when the student cohort of your online class more than quadruples in size?
- There’s more than one way to structure a large class online
- Transforming your on-campus class to a remote learning experience
- Best Practices for Large Enrolment Online Courses – 3 Part Series
- Managing High Enrolment Online Courses
- Tips for Designing and Moderating Large Enrolment Online Courses
Media
- Teaching Online: Recordings from Education Focussed Workshops
- Webinars for teaching using MS Teams by David Kellerman
- UNSW Case Study: Using Online Environments for Teaching Large Classes
Tools
- Generic Course Delivery Models and Next Steps
- MS Teams Educator Centre (includes resources for teaching large cohorts in MS Teams)
- RMIT Learning and Teaching Toolbox: Engaging large cohorts and delivering to classes in an online content
- Being a Successful Online Teacher: Organising large online classes
Exemplars
- EF Thought Leadership: Online Teaching Experiences
A/Prof Jayashri Ravishankar focuses on the online delivery of an advanced analytical electrical engineering course that was in a 100% flipped mode since 2018 - Course Planning and Time Management for Online Teaching in Term 2, 2020
A/Prof Jayashri Ravishankar covers essential details for an online class including planning and various time management strategies to make your course interesting for your students - Building a Student Online Community in Large Classes
Dr Natalie Oh discusses building an e-team teaching spirit, the use of a performance management tool and coordination & delivery for quality community building in large classes - Remote Delivery in response to COVID-19
Dr May Lim and Dr Peter Neal share candid stories about how they adapted, preserved and survived the shift to remote delivery in response to the coronavirus. In their presentation they share tips and tricks they have used to move lectures, tutorials and assessments online, including what had helped, what to avoid, what was unexpected - How to activate your ‘virtual classroom’ in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
Joanna Kartheritsas (Learning Environments, PVCE) presents on how the ‘virtual classroom’ is activated through the use of tools available in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra. In this presentation, Joanna shares tips on how to start your virtual ‘active’ class as well as Active Learning resources developed through the Active Learning Initiative that support Active Learning in both the virtual and physical classrooms.
Exemplars
Electrical Engineering: ‘Reimagining education from the lab to the living room’
Read how Electrical Engineering students have been able to access the same hands-on lab experience whilst learning remotely thanks to their tech-savvy teachers.
UNSW Art & Design: Digital Learning with Karin Watson (EF Champion and Scientia Education Fellow)
Watch how Karin explains how she is embracing digital learning with her first-year students studying Bachelor of Design at Art & Design.
Student Perspective on the Student Experience (Lunch and Learn)
Watch Education Focussed academics spoke to six UNSW students about their experience with online learning and how they're adjusting to new ways of learning.
EF Academics in the Faculty of Engineering share their experiences in online teaching and helping students stay on track
Read the experiences of three Education Focussed academics in Engineering as they share their thoughts on teaching their ‘flipped’ classes virtually
The EF Community of Practice (CoP) ‘Online Education Resources’ shares resources for Online Roleplay in the virtual classroom
Explore the resources collated for ‘Online Roleplay’ using online experiential learning and implementation including a guide on using Online Roleplay for assessments
The EF Community of Practice (CoP) ‘Online Education Resources’ shares resources for Interactive Virtual Reality
Explore the resources collated for ‘Interactive Virtual Reality’ as a method to deliver lessons thereby immersing the student in computer generated environments, pre-recorded 360 deg videos or panoramas enabling them to explore and interact
Learning Maths through Virtual Reality
Watch Dr Daniel Mansfield demonstrate the Virtual Reality program developed in collaboration with the Immersive Technologies team for his first year Maths students. The program enables students to investigate the course topic of Vectors for themselves
Guides
Getting Started
- Quick Start Guide for teaching online – Teaching Remotely SharePoint site
- Active Learning Guide
- Active Learning Reference and Research Resource Guide
- Reflection for learning: a scholarly practice guide for educators
- Best Practice Guides for Teaching Remotely
Technology
- Guide to Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
- Quick Start Guide to MS Teams for Education
- Guide on MS Teams Meeting Recording and Sharing Screens
- Tips and Tricks: Teachers Educators on Zoom
- Quick Start Guide to Zoom
- Echo360 Universal Capture Guide for Lecture Recordings
Engage and Support your Students
- A Student Guide on how to interact with your teachers and fellow classmates in a virtual classroom
- Top Tips for supporting student learning online
- Guide to integrating Flexibility Week as part of active student learning
Teaching Cohorts Online
- Scaling Education – EF Community of Practice (CoP) Guide
- Session Settings in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra for Large Classes
- Managing Large Classes in Zoom
Resources
Getting Started
- Course Map Template
- Instructions how to use the Course Map Template
- Checklist to help you prepare for Active Learning in your virtual class
- Being Digital – Scientia Education Experience Presentation by Dr Victoria Clout
- Facilitating Synchronous Live Stream Classes Presentation by Dr Victoria Clout
- Facilitating Asynchronous Online Environments Presentation by Dr Victoria Clout
Technology
- Software Feature Comparison – Blackboard Collaborate Ultra and MS Teams
- Software Feature Comparison - MS Teams and Zoom
- Create your own Lecture Recording using PowerPoint – William Armour UNSW Engineering
- Resources for Remote Learning and Teaching Using MS Teams
- Tips for Using Zoom for Teaching
- A.I.D.E Chatbot
Engage and Support your Students
- Active Learning Initiative: Supporting Academic Staff in Active Learning Spaces – Joanna Kartheritsas presentation
- Making Teamwork work in Online Classes - Presentation by Dr Victoria Clout
- What do Students need from you? - Presentation by Dr Victoria Clout & Dr Natalie Oh
- How-to Make Group Work Collaborative in Online Courses
- Sharing Content in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
- Using the Chat Box in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra effectively
- Polling in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
- Becoming a Great Online Learner during COVID-19
Tools
Technology
- UNSW Centrally Supported Education Technology Tools
- Learn Office 365
- Get Started with MS Teams
- Zoom Video Tutorials
- Teaching Technology Toolkit developed by UNSW Medicine
Engage and Support your Students
- Template Slides for your virtual class – Dr Victoria Clout (Presentation templates)
Standby Slide for Students
Welcome Slide Pack for your Virtual Class
Netiquette Slide for your Virtual Class
Teaching Large Cohorts Online
- Generic Course Delivery Models and Next Steps
- MS Teams Educator Centre (includes resources for teaching large cohorts in MS Teams)
- RMIT Learning and Teaching Toolbox: Engaging large cohorts and delivering to classes in an online content
- Being a Successful Online Teacher: Organising large online classes