Resources
This section provides a collection of interesting practices and techniques relating to diverse aspects of learning and teaching at Cardiff University. Each entry, whether short snippet or extended case study, has its roots in current activity and has been recommended by the Cardiff community and its external partners.
The collection is offered as a stimulus to thought, a view into how Cardiff colleagues have addressed certain issues, and a conduit for the sharing of ideas. In this way, the practices described are not intended to reflect an ‘institutionally endorsed’ approach – many will be dependent on particular contexts – but a starting point for reflection: home Schools, contacts and original source material are given where available to enable follow up enquiries should you wish to delve deeper.
Case Studies
These practical examples highlight ways in which solutions have been developed to enhance learning and teaching.
Completed Projects
Completed projects and their resources.
Event Reports
A collection of seminar reports, slides and additional resources for all learning and teaching events.
External Resources
Links to external websites, online articles and books and other valuable resources.
Guidance
These resources offer advice, provide information and support the development and design of effective learning and teaching activities.
Practice Snippets
A collection of ‘snaphots’ of good practice to inspire and inform.
Tutorials
Tutorials, help guides and how to information.
Index of Resources
- “I’ve been studying for 15 years and so know some things!”: Some adventures in trying to make a study skills programme relevant (from PCUTL Projects)
- A commitee to monitor student progress in DENTL (from Practice Snippets: Assessment)
- A comparative analysis of Personal Tutoring practice and experience (from PCUTL Projects)
- A cross-disciplinary study of student perceptions of the relationship between academic and vocational elements of their courses of study (from PCUTL Projects)
- A flexible, generic framework for PGT (from Practice Snippets: Management, Administration, Organisation)
- A journey through the maze of e-development (from PCUTL Projects)
- A student needs analysis of Blackboard. (from PCUTL Projects)
- Academic Progress Review and Feedback (from Practice Snippets: Assessment)
- Academic Progress Review and Feedback in BIOSI (from Practice Snippets: Assessment)
- Access to materials linked to completion of module evaluations in PGMDE (from Practice Snippets: Student Voice)
- Accessible office hours (from Practice Snippets: Management, Administration, Organisation)
- Accessing groups (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Accessing Learning Central discussion board forums (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Adaptive Release (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Adding Contact Information (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Adding External Links (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Adding Files (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Adding Files in Learning Central (from Learning Central Quickstart Videos)
- Adding Files to the Content Collection (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Adding Folders (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Adding Folders to the Content Collection (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Admissions sub-committee addresses retention issues in BIOSI (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- An exploration of assessment practices at Cardiff University’s Schools of Engineering, Psychology and the Centre for Lifelong Learning (from PCUTL Projects)
- An Introduction to Electronic Submission and the Tools Available at Cardiff (from Guidance)
- Applicant summer school in SONMS (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Appreciative inquiry: developing a new learning and teaching approach to end of life and palliative care (from Innovative Education Project Reports 09-10)
- Assessing first year assessment in JOMEC (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Assessments in QMP (from QuestionMark Perception Tutorials & Tutorials)
- Audit Tools (from External Resources)
- Avoiding the University of Google (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Batch Uploading Files (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Batch Uploading Files to the Content Collection (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Bibliographic Referencing (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Blending theory and practice: working together to enhance teaching and learning (from PCUTL Projects)
- Cardiff v Malaysia: a comparison of student experiences of one first year module (from PCUTL Projects)
- Career Management Skills Programme in MATHS (from Practice Snippets: Skills, PDP, Employability)
- Case Studies in eAssessment (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Assessment for Learning, Northumbria University (from External Resources)
- Challenges in formative assessment across ENCAP, HISAR and CARBS (from PCUTL Projects)
- City and Guilds accreditation for placements in MATHS (from Practice Snippets)
- Classroom management software in BIOSI and JOMEC (from Innovative Education Project Reports 08-09)
- Combined course teams in COMSC (from Practice Snippets: Assessment)
- Communication skills for first years in SONMS (from Practice Snippets: Skills, PDP, Employability)
- Completed Project: Extension to the BRILL (Biosciences Respond, Interact and Learn in Lectures) Project (from Completed Projects)
- Computer Assisted Assessment (from External Resources)
- Conference on Technology-Enhanced Education (from QUILT Conference Reports)
- Confidence and competence in medicines-based calculations in PHRMY, MATHS and SONMS (from Completed Projects)
- Copying and Moving Content (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Creating a Discussion Board Forum (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Creating a Learning Journal (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Creating a Module Portlet Page (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Creating a thread and replying in a Discussion Board forum (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Creating a work-based learning programme for ENGIN (from PCUTL Projects)
- Creating Assignments in Learning Central (from Learning Central Quickstart Videos)
- Creating Online Tests (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Creating questions with Browser based authoring (from QuestionMark Perception Tutorials)
- Customising the Module Menu (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Delivering flexible information literacy training to distance learning students (from Completed Projects)
- Dermatology surgical skills teaching in MEDIC (from Innovative Education Project Reports 08-09)
- Diagnostic tests and competencies in BIOSI (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Digital modelling and the imagination of new forms in ARCHI (from Innovative Education Project Reports 08-09)
- Do mature students learn differently from their younger peers? (from PCUTL Projects)
- Downloading Assignments in Learning Central (from Learning Central Quickstart Videos)
- Early engagement in SOCSI (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Early engagement of learners in MATHS (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Eduscape (from PCUTL Projects)
- Effective and Efficient Feedback (from QUILT Conference Reports)
- Effective student-staff panels in SOHCS and SONMS (from Practice Snippets: Student Voice)
- Effective supervision of interdisciplinary PhD projects across multiple schools (from PCUTL Projects)
- eLearning and equal opportunities (from PCUTL Projects)
- eLearning in the School of Medicine (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Electronic case management learning: Cardiff University Innocence Projects (from Innovative Education Project Reports 09-10)
- Electronic feedback: pilot implementation of GradeMark across health-related Schools (from Innovative Education Project Reports 09-10)
- Electronic resources and copyright (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Email updates to first year students in EARTH (from Practice Snippets & Practice Snippets: Management, Administration, Organisation)
- Embedding assessment into course design: a view from Lifelong Learning (from PCUTL Projects)
- Embedding learning and teaching strategies (from External Resources)
- Embedding Media in Learning Central (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Employability skills: some modules do have them (from PCUTL Projects)
- Engagement with professional organisations in MUSIC (from Practice Snippets: Research and Teaching)
- Engaging students in reflecting on learning in PSYCH (from Completed Projects)
- Enhanced support for students in CLAWS (from Practice Snippets: Technology-enhanced Education and the Learning Environment)
- Enhancing formative feedback in large cohort modules: a case study from CARBS (from PCUTL Projects)
- Entering and Viewing Grades (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Evaluation, development and implementation of a Dental e-Portfolio (from Innovative Education Project Reports 09-10)
- Exemplar of explicitness in assessment in JOMEC (from Practice Snippets: Assessment)
- Experiential and situated learning theory and its appliction to the teaching of the knowledge subjects in the Barristers' Training Course (from PCUTL Projects)
- Exploring A Level Maths assessments-is A Level Maths becoming easier and what are the implications for students entering into Higher Education? (from PCUTL Projects)
- Extended schemes with an International Year in EARTH (from Practice Snippets: Skills, PDP, Employability)
- Extenuating circumstances and assessment in Religious Studies and Engineering (from PCUTL Projects)
- Feedback eModule (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Feedback for Academic Integrity (from Case Studies)
- Feedback on exams in Psych (from Practice Snippets: Assessment)
- Feedback on Funded Projects in Medic (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Feedback to Feed Forward (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Feedback: What do students want? A comparative study of students’ expectations of ENGIN and SOCSI assessment feedback (from PCUTL Projects)
- Fieldwork taster sessions in HISAR (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Figuring it Out-Maths Support at Cardiff and Medicines Based Calculations (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Formula student as part of a mechanical engineering curriculum (from PCUTL Projects)
- Fresher’s induction week with an emphasis on skills in MATHS (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Generating pedagogical research via PCUTL for School policy development (from Practice Snippets & Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Grade Centre Columns (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Grade Centre Grading Periods (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Grade Centre Reports (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Grademark for online marking in SONMS (from Completed Projects)
- Grading Discussion Board Participation (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Grading Schemas (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Granting Access to Content in The Content Collection (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Healthcare Communications for Postgraduate Cohorts (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Hiding old modules in the module list (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- How to create a Personal Learning Space (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Impact of specific learning difficulties on teaching and learning in History, Optometry and Pharmacy (from PCUTL Projects)
- In-house library in ARCHI (from Practice Snippets: Technology-enhanced Education and the Learning Environment)
- Induction via Blackboard in PGMDE (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Information literacy: do we know what they know? (from PCUTL Projects)
- Information Literacy: Guidance Note (from Guidance)
- Innovations from INTER (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Innovations in selection and induction at SONMS (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Innovative language learning in EUROS (from Practice Snippets: Assessment)
- Integration of digital film technology into teaching and assessment (from Innovative Education Project Reports 09-10)
- Integration of microreactor chemistry in teaching (from Completed Projects)
- Inter-professional learning (IPL) in SOHCS (from Practice Snippets: Skills, PDP, Employability)
- Interactive Lectures with SMARTsoftware Technology (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Internationalisation and Student Experiences (from QUILT Conference Reports)
- Interprofessional Collaboration in the Healthcare Professions (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Interprofessional education-theory and practice (from PCUTL Projects)
- Interprofessional learning in SOHCS (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Introduction to Grademark (from QUILT Workshop Reports)
- Introductory study skills sessions for Year 1 students in BIOSI (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Introductory study skills sessions for Year 1 students in BIOSI (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Investigating the explicitness of written language skills assessment criteria within the sciences (from PCUTL Projects)
- Investigating the use of audio for providing feedback to students in CHEMY, PHRMY and PSYCH (from Completed Projects)
- Involvement of Subject Librarian in School committees in MUSIC (from Practice Snippets: Management, Administration, Organisation)
- Ivy League exchange programme in JOMEC (from Practice Snippets: Skills, PDP, Employability)
- Key Information Sets (from Guidance)
- LanSchool:Enabling collaboration and interactivity in the computer lab (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- LEAN review of School committee structure in WELSH (from Practice Snippets: Management, Administration, Organisation)
- Learning Environments – Physical and Virtual (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Learning psychiatry through film (from PCUTL Projects)
- Lecture capture in PCUTL (from Practice Snippets: Technology-enhanced Education and the Learning Environment)
- Lessons from Australia (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Logging in to Learning Central (from Learning Central Quickstart Videos)
- Managing dissertation supervision in CPLAN (from Practice Snippets)
- Managing dissertation supervision in JOMEC (from Practice Snippets)
- Marking criteria and assessment methods (from External Resources)
- Marking panel for assessment of presentations (from Practice Snippets: Assessment)
- Mature student induction in LEARN (from Practice Snippets & Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Maximising learning from feedback: three approaches (from PCUTL Projects)
- Mobile Learning (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Moderating a Discussion Board Forum (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Module design in the context of teaching problem-solving in modern engineering and architecture (from PCUTL Projects)
- MSc Study skills workshop in SONMS (from Practice Snippets: Skills, PDP, Employability)
- MSc study skills workshop in SONMS (from Practice Snippets: Skills, PDP, Employability)
- New tools for audio feedback (from News & QUILT Workshop Reports)
- NSS Group in SONMS (from Practice Snippets: Student Voice)
- On Your Marks- Approaches to Fair and Reliable Marking of Academic Work (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Online anatomy tutorials (from Innovative Education Project Reports 09-10)
- Online evaluations in SOHCS (from Practice Snippets: Student Voice)
- Online Marking with Grademark (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Opening and Downloading Files from Learning Central (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Organising Your VLE Module (from QUILT Workshop Reports)
- Overcoming the challenges of supporting Teaching and Learning remotely (from PCUTL Projects)
- Overview of what's New in Learning Central for Summer 2010 (from Updates to Learning Central)
- PCUTL projects inspiring School practice: use of film in RELIG (from Practice Snippets: Staff development and Peer Review of Learning and Teaching)
- Peer – reviewed electronic journal (from External Resources)
- Peer review of learning and teaching (from Practice Snippets: Staff development and Peer Review of Learning and Teaching)
- Physiotherapy Education: fit for twenty-first century healthcare? (from PCUTL Projects)
- Postgraduate module for non-traditional entry students at SOHCS (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Postgraduate student module evaluation sessions in SOCSI (from Practice Snippets: Student Voice)
- Posting Announcements (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Posting Announcements in Learning Central (from Learning Central Quickstart Videos)
- Printing PowerPoint slides from Learning Central (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- PRLT to review learning support materials in BIOSI (from Practice Snippets: Staff development and Peer Review of Learning and Teaching)
- Professional development planning at induction in PGMDE (from Practice Snippets: Skills, PDP, Employability)
- Professional Practice Links in ARCHI (from Practice Snippets: Skills, PDP, Employability)
- Putting Lectures Online (from QUILT Presentation Reports)
- Putting theory into practice-mapping academic teaching against clinical practice in a 3rd Year role develeopment module for undergraduate diagnostic radiographers (from PCUTL Projects)
- Questionmark and Blackboard (from QuestionMark Perception Tutorials)
- QuestionMark Perception (from QUILT Workshop Reports)
- QUILT: Summertime Specials (from Practice Snippets: Technology-enhanced Education and the Learning Environment)
- Real-time virtual field trips: making environmental science accessible to everyone (from Innovative Education Project Reports 09-10)
- Recognising and rewarding exceptional performance in BIOSI (from Practice Snippets: Assessment)
- Reconfiguration of PGT provision in CLAWS to allow varied routes (from Practice Snippets: Management, Administration, Organisation)
- Reflective practice in conservation education (from PCUTL Projects)
- Remote learning for overseas students (from Innovative Education Project Reports 09-10)
- Research skills training in HISAR (from Practice Snippets: Research and Teaching)
- Review of student evaluation at WCPPE (from PCUTL Projects)
- School-wide transition to paperless marking in SONMS (from Practice Snippets: Technology-enhanced Education and the Learning Environment)
- Selling to the Students? Understanding student choices in the university degree (from PCUTL Projects)
- Sending a Voice Email (from Learning Central Quickstart Videos)
- Sending Email in Learning Central (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Sending email with Learning Central (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Setting up a PeerMark peer assessment (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Setting Up Assignments (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Seven principles of good feedback practice (from External Resources)
- Skills programme for first year students in JOMEC and SOCSI (from Practice Snippets: Skills, PDP, Employability)
- Standards panel in BIOSI (from Practice Snippets: Assessment)
- Standards Panel in BIOSI (from Practice Snippets: Assessment)
- Starting Out with TurningPoint (from QUILT Workshop Reports)
- Statistical analysis of marking patterns in HISAR (from Practice Snippets: Assessment)
- Student celebration day in SONMS (from Practice Snippets: Student Voice)
- Student evaluation of an eLearning package on prescription assessment (from PCUTL Projects)
- Student experiences of feedback across four Cardiff University Schools (from PCUTL Projects)
- Student handbook exemplars in CHEMY (from Practice Snippets: Management, Administration, Organisation)
- Student led approaches to the Philosophy of Law (from PCUTL Projects)
- Student perceptions of generic employment skills across Science and Engineering (from PCUTL Projects)
- Student Stories (from External Resources)
- Student use of Turnitin in CLAWS (from Practice Snippets: Assessment)
- Study of module evaluation practices in CLAWS (from Practice Snippets: Student Voice)
- Submitting an assignment through Learning Central (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Summary of Differences in the VLE for Summer 2010 (from Updates to Learning Central)
- Supervised online enrolment and pre-enrolment in BIOSI (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Support for postgraduate students in CARBS (from Practice Snippets)
- Supporting undergraduate academic literacy development: an interactive resource (from PCUTL Projects)
- Sustainability as taught and understood within the Schools of Psychology and Earth and Ocean Sciencees, Cardiff University (from PCUTL Projects)
- Syllabus+ timetabling software in DENTL (from Practice Snippets: Management, Administration, Organisation)
- Teaching for Quality Learning at University (from External Resources)
- Teaching in 3D (from Case Studies)
- Teaching tomorrow’s traders-establishing a real time dealing room facility in CARBS (from Innovative Education Project Reports 08-09)
- Team-taught information literacy programme in EUROS (from Practice Snippets: Research and Teaching)
- Test and Survey Question Types (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Test Manager in Learning Central (from Learning Central Interactive Tutorials)
- Text messaging in JOMEC (from Practice Snippets: Technology-enhanced Education and the Learning Environment)
- The design of a psychometrically robust formative and diagnostic numeracy tool for level 1 undergraduate students who are required to perform medicines-based calculations (from Innovative Education Project Reports 09-10)
- The physical environment-Servicescapes in education (from Completed Projects)
- The Quality Assurance Agency (from External Resources)
- The role of self-assessment in improving student performance (from PCUTL Projects)
- The UK Professional Standards Framework (from External Resources)
- Things to Try (New Features in Learning Central) (from Updates to Learning Central)
- Towards Learning Creatively (from External Resources)
- Triple marking in PHRMY (from Practice Snippets: Assessment)
- TurningPoint Features (from QUILT Workshop Reports)
- Turnitin 2 (from QUILT Workshop Reports)
- Turnitin at Cardiff (from QUILT Workshop Reports)
- Turnitin Overview (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides & Tutorials) (PDF)
- Turnitin Quick Guide (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Turnitin Support (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides & Tutorials) (PDF)
- Turnitin: Interpreting Originality Reports (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Turnitin: Student Quick Guide to Submitting Work (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Two week induction programme with formative work in ARCHI (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- Undergraduate Project Assessment in CHEMY (from Practice Snippets: Assessment)
- United Nations simulation in EUROS (from Practice Snippets)
- Uploading to Grade Centre (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Using an Audience Response System for Module Evaluation (from Case Studies)
- Value added in Schools of Bioscience and Computer Science (from PCUTL Projects)
- Viewing and sorting threads in a Discussion Board forum (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Viewing grades in Learning Central (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Viewing Test and Survey Results (from Step by Step Learning Central Guides) (PDF)
- Virtual Environment Radiotherapy Training software in SOHCS (from Practice Snippets: Technology-enhanced Education and the Learning Environment)
- Welsh case studies on assessment (from External Resources)
- Welsh language provision in SOHCS (from Practice Snippets: Skills, PDP, Employability)
- What type of feedback do students value? (from PCUTL Projects)
- Wikis for Groupwork (from Case Studies)
- Wikis for Learning (from QUILT Workshop Reports)
- Workshops for PGR students involved in teaching in PSYCH (from Practice Snippets: Staff development and Peer Review of Learning and Teaching)
- Writing and Using Learning Outcomes (from Guidance)
- ‘Changing Gear’: pre-entry study support in SOHCS (from Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction)
- ‘Learning to Teach’: training for PGRs involved in teaching in ENCAP (from Practice Snippets: Staff development and Peer Review of Learning and Teaching)
- ‘Letters of advice’ for new students in PGMDE (from Practice Snippets: Student Voice)