Guidance documents
We have put together a variety of guidance documents which we have made available for you to download. They cover a range of issues which affect learning and teaching and we hope you find them useful.
Activity Template for NOW - help with planning online activities together with an example of how to go about filling this in online:
Blogging Guide - Guidelines on the use of blogs in learning and teaching at NTU:
Distance Learning - an introduction to distance learning, what it is, how to design materials for it, how to re-use your existing materials as well as looking at support issues:
Electronic Voting System (EVS) - an overview of EVS which allow staff to introduce an interactive element to conventional lectures. The guide includes an introduction to TurningPoint which is an EVS that NTU have purchased for general use:
Online Course Design - looking at the basic course design process, how activities and tools can support this and how to manage student workload:
Minimum Online Standards - provides a summary of how to meet the minimum standards using the University’s virtual learning platform, NOW (NTU Online Workspace).
Multimedia guides
Adding audio into NOW - step-by-step instructions on how to add audio into your module. The instructions cover how to use the HTML editor to insert an audio file and give an overview of which file types are supported, more than is initially apparent:
Using Wimba Voice in NOW - this is a quick start guide in how to use the Wimba Voice recording service and once an audio has been recorded, goes through how to add these files into NOW:
Embedding a WMV in NOW - This quick guide explains how to embed a media item (such as a video clip from YouTube or a link from the streaming server) to a topic of the Content area of NOW:
Streaming Video using NOW - This guide introduces video streaming, why it is used, how to prepare a file for streaming and who to contact. The guide also briefly covers how streaming can help meet copyright licensing requirements:
Basic Principles of Multimedia - This guide introduces some fundamental concepts of multimedia that are useful to know about when editing, authoring and publishing multimedia objects:
Producing Video - This guide is aimed at giving staff an introduction to the area of video production. It gives an overview of the services that are available at the Nottingham Trent University and introduces some of the tools, techniques and methods for planning, creating, manipulating and presenting video:
Tutoring Skills - tips and advice for tutoring online looking at practical and theoretical issues and giving you some ideas for how to get started:
