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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.


Teaching Innovation

Approaches to enhance teaching and learning.

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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.

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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.

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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.


Assessment and Feedback Strategies

Effective methods for evaluating student learning and providing feedback.

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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.

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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.

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Increasing Survey Response Rates

This Quick Guide identifies some examples of good practice in promoting NSS, PTES and Module Feedback Surveys to students.


Inclusive and Student-centred Teaching

Strategies for inclusive and accessible teaching and learning.

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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.

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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.


Enhancing the Curriculum

Support for curriculum enhancement and shared responsibility for learning.

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Shared Modules

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

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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.

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Module Healthcheck

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


Supporting the Student Experience

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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.

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Year One Semester One

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


Further Resources

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Learning Enhancement Workstreams

Development projects led by the Learning Enhancement Directorate in response to CAQE data and other development needs

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Resources & Toolkits

Guidance on key priorities for learning and teaching to effectively support student learning and the student experience