Workshops and Training
Events and learning opportunities to enhance your skills
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Learning & Teaching Drop-in Sessions
Drop ins are an opportunity to speak with a learning & teaching advisor about an issue you may be having.
They can be used for a variety of topics and issues. Examples include:
- Exploring what platform to use for an online assignment
- Troubleshooting an issue with Canvas
- General interest in a particular tool and discussing if it would be appropriate for your requirements
Schedule:
- Monday 11:00 – 12:00
- Wednesday 9:00 – 10:00
- Friday 15:00 – 16:00
Upon joining via Zoom you will be greeted by one or two advisors. Breakout rooms will be used if we are already discussing another colleague’s issue. This means that you will be able to speak to someone one-to-one.
If a specialist is not able to assist with your learning & teaching query, we will either invite another colleague into the call or collect details and get back to you with a solution at a later point.
For detailed log-in and access information please refer to our joining instructions.
Tues 24th May, 12-1pm
This session will give new and old staff a good overview of the Library, it's services and how it can support University staff. Open to all University staff.
Wed 8th June 12-1pm
This session is aimed at academic staff who want to evaluate and enhance their reading lists against criteria such as diversity, accessibility and structure, and encourage better student engagement. Using our new reading list toolkit, we’ll highlight principles and practical issues to consider when reviewing and developing your reading lists, together with useful tools and resources to help you.
Canvas is Newcastle University's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is an online learning platform where you can host all of your course content, study materials, and module and programme information.
Webinars
One hour sessions delivered on Zoom - consisting of demonstration and opportunities to ask questions.
- An Introduction to Canvas: the aim of this short webinar is to provide you with an introduction to the Canvas environment. Suitable for all colleagues.
- Getting your Canvas Course Ready: a short webinar to support you while you create your new Canvas courses for the 2021/22 academic year.
Online course
- Canvas New Analytics: this course introduces you to Canvas New Analytics and how it might be used to support teaching and learning.
H5P is a tool that lets you create simple online content such as interactive videos, quizzes, games and presentations. This training webinar offers a 30-minute introduction to H5P looking at some of the benefits of using the tool, followed by an optional 30-minute task where you can try creating some H5P content yourself.
Inspera Assessment is the University's new system for centrally supported digital exams.
If you want to find out how to create or mark exams you can book onto a webinar or workshop, suitable for academic and professional services colleagues.
Webinars
Creating an Inspera digital exam webinar
Inspera digital exam marking webinar
Workshops (in person)
NUIT are offering Microsoft Teams training sessions. See the Teams webinar schedule for more information.
NUIT are offering Zoom training sessions. Find out more on their Zoom webpages.
Accessing your School and Programme Data (Part 1)
In this session we will show you what PowerBI entails and how you can navigate the different elements of it. This is useful when checking your School or Programme’s data from NSS, PTES, stage evaluations and degree classification reports.
Book onto Accessing your School and Programme Data (Part 1)
Using your School and Programme Data (Part 2)
In this session we will present an overview of the latest PowerBI Data dashboards, and guide you through how data from NSS, PTES, stage evaluations and degree classification reports can be used in your School or programme.
This session will provide an overview of national surveys (NSS/PTES/PRES) and institutional surveys (stage evaluation, informal module check-ins), including the ways in which these different surveys support each other.
This course (approx 1 hour on line activities) is available on Canvas.
This is a comprehensive online training resource developed for all Newcastle University colleagues and can be accessed 24/7 from your Canvas dashboard.
You may be developing a new module for the first time or rethinking the delivery of a familiar module. In this short course we introduce you to some new tools – a design canvas and our localised version of the popular ABC learning design workshop developed by UCL.
The course follows the general structure of an ABC workshop with a number of short activities for you to complete. At the end of this you will have prototyped a module design that you can then build in Canvas.
The design process is by its nature a reflective one, and during this course we will ask you to think deeply about what you teach and how you teach it, about what students will learn and how they will learn it.
You will get the most from the course if you complete the suggested activities in the order that we present them.
The activities and suggested timings are below:
- Design conversations (20 mins)
- The shape of your module (5 mins)
- Your module storyboard (20 mins)
- Adding activity detail (15 mins)
- Mark formative and summative assessment (10 mins)
- Review the shape of your module (10 mins)
- Plan your next steps (5 mins)
The course has short articles and videos between the activities to guide you through the steps taking you from ABC to Canvas. Along the way you will hear from colleagues who have used this approach to deliver engaging student learning.
The course is a self-enrol Canvas course. Join it at this link: Module Design: ABC to Canvas (once you have joined it will be listed as one of your courses)
Work through this course independently, or with your module team. We can also offer this as bespoke workshop for schools or stage teams - contact ltds@ncl.ac.uk to discuss your requirements.
This short, self-paced course is available in Canvas and will introduce personal tutoring best practices and responsibilities for the role.
This short course takes around one hour to complete and guides you through the steps needed to make your own podcast, from initial ideas to uploading your first episode.
Networks
Teams communties that you can join to share ideas, ask questions, and connect with your colleagues:
Digital technologies:
- Canvas@Newcastle: stay informed of the latest Canvas updates and share your practice.
- H5P@Community: join our community to get updates about H5P, ask questions and share practice.
- Teams@Newcastle: keep up to date with the latest Teams news and events.
- Zoom Community: for the latest Zoom announcements, a chance to ask questions, and regular updates about Zoom.
For a range of learning and teaching inspiration
- Newcastle Educators: a peer-led community of educators, who value the opportunity to get together and discuss common interests. Regular EDUBITES events provide a great opportunity to bring the Community together.
- NUTELA: Newcastle Univeristy Technology Enhanced Learning Advocates: an enthusiastic group of academic and professional service staff who deliver hands-on sessions where you can learn about and try technologies that you can use in your teaching.