Tech Guides

Best Practice in Online Teaching

This guide includes guidelines for behaviour in live teaching sessions to ensure a smooth experience.

Best Practice in Piazza

Piazza is the online discussion forum that is used in many courses. In the academic year 2020-21, Piazza will play an even bigger role than normal as more teaching is done online. The guide above outlines the behaviour we expect all students to uphold on Piazza.

Office 365

You will have used your student email throughout the last year but through the university, you have access to not just Outlook but Office 365 which includes Office Online, OneDrive, OneNote and Sharepoint. These tools can be used to work on documents collaboratively or share existing documents with others. You can easily add people by searching for their name in the university directory which makes it a valuable tool for working together during online teaching.

Maybe you have used some of these features in the past but with the change to hybrid teaching, remote collaborative work will become more important in the upcoming year so have a look at all the features offered with Office 365 to make the best out of it.

Latex and Overleaf

Latex is a software system that is used to typeset mathematics. Throughout your degree, you will definitely encounter it, depending on your course choice maybe even this year. It is a powerful tool, especially when more of your degree is online right now, as it allows a way to write mathematics on a digital platform.

You can download a Latex editor such as Texmaker onto your device or use an online service such as Overleaf for creating documents. Through the university, you get an account which allows you to share documents and work together on documents with other people. For an introduction, have a look at the Overleaf Documentation to get you started.