Learning Enhancement Quick Guides

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Quick Guides

Quick Guides are a series of simple, one-page resources to support staff to develop their practice in relation to a range of important topics , from including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in the curriculum to using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in practice. Each guide offers clear, practical tips to build understanding and encourage further learning.

Strategies for inclusive and accessible teaching and learning.

EDI in the Curriculum

This Quick Guide aims to support you across learning, teaching and assessment practices by providing ideas on how to engage with inclusive and accessible strategies through an EDI lens.

Digital Accessibility

This Quick Guide involves creating products, services and resources that are accessible to, and usable by, as many people as possible without the need for adaptation.

Teaching Large Groups

This Quick Guide shows how there are significant benefits to working with large groups of students; it is regarded as a cost effective, efficient and consistent way to deliver course content.

Effective methods for evaluating student learning and providing feedback.

Assessing Large Groups

This Quick Guide shows how large groups are a standard feature of higher education practice. There are significant benefits to working with large groups of students; it is regarded as a cost effective, efficient and consistent way to deliver course content.

Assessment and Feedback Rubrics

This Quick Guide shows how assessment rubrics are essential tools in university assessment design, providing a clear framework for evaluating student performance.

Approaches to enhance teaching and learning.

Use of AI in Practice

This Quick Guide on AI in Higher Education emphasises ethical, responsible, and effective usage. AI use should be transparent, maintaining academic integrity and equity while using it to enhance the student experience.

Education for Sustainable Development

This Quick Guide shows how we want Sustainable Futures for All by delivering a transformative student experience, and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is key to how we will achieve that.

Research Informed Teaching

This Quick Guide explores the synergy between scholarship and teaching, ensuring that students benefit from up-to-date disciplinary insights and develop as producers as well as consumers of research.

Support for curriculum enhancement and shared responsibility for learning.

Shared Modules

This Quick Guide refers to modules studied by students from different degree programmes, whether within the same school or across faculties.

Creating Classroom Community Agreements with your Students

This Quick Guide shows how classroom community agreements are an example of the possibility, through engagement and collaboration, to reimagine learning as a relationship.

Module Healthcheck

This Quick Guide identifies some key areas of good practice to consider when designing and reviewing your module.

Understanding our Students

This Quick Guide shows how Gen Z have diverse perspectives, values, and preferences shaped by technology, global events, and shifting social expectations.

Year One Semester One

This Quick Guide summarises essential steps in delivering modules that help new students adjust, grow and thrive.

Boosting Engagement with Module Feedback Surveys

This Quick Guide provides practical steps to help staff champion student voice and improve response rates for module surveys — ensuring that feedback is not only collected but acted upon in meaningful ways.

A Quick Guide to NSS

This Quick Guide provides information on the NSS and how you can boost engagement among your students.

A Quick Guide to PTES

This Quick Guide provides information on PTES and how you can boost engagement among your students.

Your Voice Matters: A Student Guide to Module Feedback

This Quick Guide shows how your insights help academic staff understand what supports your learning, and where adjustments can make a difference.

Closing the Feedback Loop

This Quick Guide shows that when feedback is genuinely considered and leads to change, it builds trust, increases engagement, and creates a more positive learning environment.