This page contains ideas to support your well-being in the hybrid workplace.
Digital wellbeing (up to half an hour).
Category: Beginner
All students and staff have a Newcastle University email account hosted by Microsoft’s Office365 service. This page contains guidance on how to access and use it across several devices.
Emailing attachments creates copies of documents, and it can be tricky to keep track of which is the definitive version. Sharing and collaborating on the same document tidies all this up, and keeps everyone working on the same version.
This short course takes you through the accessibility laws we are subject to, and how and why to implement them. It includes guides on how to create and share content that is accessible to everybody.
Accessibility in practice (about 1-2 hours).
This page hosts guidance for digital polling tools in Vevox, Zoom, and Teams.
Digital polling (about 1-2 hours).
Vevox is Newcastle University’s centrally-supported Audience Interaction System, and allows colleagues to conduct live polls, quizzes and surveys with students – in advance or live in a lecture or seminar. From gauging opinion to providing participants with question & answer opportunities, Vevox can be used on different devices with the only requirement to participate being a device connected to the internet.
Audience and class interaction with Vevox (about 1-2 hours).
The use of cameras in online sessions: technical and etiquette guidance.
Camera Usage in Online Events from a Staff Perspective (under 10 minutes).
Some tips for working around poor internet connections, or ways to reduce the bandwidth you are using.
Considerations for teaching and studying with poor internet (up to half an hour).
The hows and whys for recording audio content, including guidance for using ReCap, Audacity, Canvas, and mobile apps.
Audio and Podcasts: Learning and Teaching Site (up to half an hour).