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.
Category: Teaching Staff
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.
Power Automate is a powerful tool for automating processes predominantly between Microsoft products. This guidance is intended to support basic flows for Microsoft Forms.
Video is especially good for providing a personal connection or for communicating complex visual information online: it will play an important part of any good blended course. But with so many hardware and software options available, it is sometimes difficult to know where to start. On this page you will find a range of self-help resources to help you get the most out of the hardware and software available to you.
Creating video content (about 1-2 hours).
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).
A screencast to demonstrate how to create and use reflection tools in NU Reflect.
NU Reflect: Create and manage reflections (under 10 minutes).
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).