Bath Blend Essentials

Part 1: Course-wide planning

Part 2: Unit and session planning

Part 3: Weekly planning

Teaching online

How the approaches we choose now have the potential to confer long-term benefits for students, staff and the institution.

Live Interactive Online Learning

In addition to engaging learners through active discussion and immediate feedback, synchronous activities can also allow for more in depth exploration of ideas and concepts.

Independent Learning

'Asynchronous learning' refers to forms of learning and teaching that place flexibly online and do not require learners and/or tutors to be online simultaneously.

Embedding feedback

Practical approaches to supporting students' understanding of the feedback process and to embed effective feedback and feedforward activities.

Technologies that support learning

Live interactive online teaching with large groups

Engaging students online

Both synchronous and asynchronous online learning activities can foster engagement through keeping to some core principles.

Developing community online

How can we make more explicit and deliberate opportunities for informal conversations and connections to be made within our online teaching and learning environment?

Parity of experience

Our challenge is to prepare the best learning experiences for all students, no matter how students and teaching staff 'attend classes'.

Online group work tools

These tools can support collaborative Group Reports, Lab Projects and Peer Assisted Learning activities.

Online assessment tools

The key digital systems used to support online formative and summative assessment.

Using non-Bath tools

You should chose a digital tool based on meeting learning outcomes, data protection and accessibility requirements.

Copyright issues

Copyright is one of the main types of intellectual property. It allows the copyright owner to protect against others copying or reproducing their work.

Moodle

Moodle is a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) used for both synchronous (live) and asynchronous activity.

Office 365

Office 365 is a Microsoft subscription service that includes access to Office applications and online productivity services.

Re:View

Re:View is the University of Bath's video platform (also known as Panopto).

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a chat-based collaboration platform with document sharing, online meetings, and application integration.

Mentimeter

Mentimeter is a web-based polling tool, that allows you to gather reponses from students to engage them in their learning.  It can be used synchronously, during lectures or other teaching activities. It can also be used asynchronously, between in-person sessions. 

Zoom

Use Zoom to host online Interactive sessions with students and facilitate hybrid sessions, or encourage students to use it to support groupwork activities.