Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) plays a vital role in supporting all aspects of teaching, learning, assessment and feedback, and is embedded in the University’s strategic priorities for teaching and learning.

The TEL team are dedicated to promoting and supporting the effective and creative use of technology to enhance teaching and learning.

TEL Updates

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Online Teaching Toolkits

Guidance and resources to help you teach in the Autumn Term & beyond

Blackboard Learn

Get started with Blackboard Learn, the university's Virtual Learning Environment / online learning platform.

Blackboard Collaborate

Using online web conferencing, Blackboard Collaborate allows our academic staff to hold interactive, live online meetings, seminars and tutorials with students.

Assessment and feedback

These pages are under development & coming soon. This currently links to the Electronic Management of Assessment (EMA) Help page on the Blackboard Staff Help Site.

Learning Capture

Learning Capture includes lecture capture (recording live lectures) and personal capture (creating screen-recordings for asynchronous teaching and learning).

Learning Activities

Learning activities that can be completed online and within Blackboard, including blogs, journals, wikis, discussion boards.

Accessibility and Inclusivity

How to make your resources accessible to all to help ensure your teaching is inclusive.

TEL Professional Development

We offer an evolving programme of face-to-face and online staff development and training to help staff make best use of technology to enhance the teaching and learning experience.

TEL Support and Guides

Access our full range of support materials designed to help staff to use all aspects of our technologies.

Turnitin

Guidance and information on the Turnitin Assignment tool and Similarity Reports.

TEL Projects

Find out about specific projects the TEL team are working on to help enrich teaching and learning at the university.

TEL Practitioner Forum

The university's TEL Community of Practice for sharing ideas and advancing the use of technology in teaching and learning.

Online Courses

COMING SOON. If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact Nicky McGirr, Online Courses General Manager: n.mcgirr@reading.ac.uk

T&L Exchange

Need inspiration? Access TEL case studies on the University’s T&L Exchange.