
Teaching Online – Guidance for online and blended teaching
Templates
Faculty has developed a range of templates to exemplify how you might want to use them to get your teaching materials for online delivery.
Templates are useful in a number of ways. They help provide a thread connecting student activities and content. Templates exemplify how you might like to promote active student learning and peer interaction online, ways to make teacher presence felt beyond uploading of files, as well as providing opportunities for students to gain feedback during contact time.
For further guidance see: How and Why should I Develop Online Materials
Adobe CC Express Templates
We recommend you to use Adobe Creative Cloud Express Templates (formally Spark Page) as the platform to deliver lectures and seminars and make them available (linked) from Blackboard.
- HUM Template for lecture contact time (any design) – https://express.adobe.com/page/OHPprbYNcnZ4g/
- HUM Template for seminar contact time (any design) – https://express.adobe.com/page/WGb1iYcpllD8Y/
To gain access to any of the templates above please contact the eLearning team.
For guidance on how to incorporate the Templates above please see our Adobe CC Express Hub FAQs page.
Word / PDF Templates
If you prefer to use Word to deliver your online lectures, you can use the templates below and then pdf and upload your lecture delivery to Blackboard.
- Word Template (PC) for any instructional design (video-based, flipped classroom, other)
- Word Template (Mac) for any instructional design (video-based, flipped classroom, other)
PowerPoint Templates
If you prefer to use PowerPoint to deliver your online lectures, you can use the templates below:
- Humanities PowerPoint Template (White) for any instructional design
- Humanities PowerPoint Template (Purple) for any instructional design
Humanities Templates – Graphics to Download
If you would like to use additional icons or banners, you can download them here:
Each folder has a zip file of all its contents, or you can simply download the individual items you want to use.
- Icons: http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/faculty/elearning/_templates/icons/
- Banners: http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/faculty/elearning/_templates/banners/
Should you encounter any problems with this guidance or wish to ask questions, contact the Humanities eLearning Team.
Tips
Looking for some tips to help with online learning? Have a look at What Works in Teaching and Things To Try.