Digital Education for staff

Your digital services

Service Status: get updates on the current status of our virtual learning environments including downtimes and outages.
Get TEL Support: Digital Education at Brookes is our support website with documentation and online training resources on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) for all staff.
ServiceNow: get help from the IT Service Desk including IT Services request, the IT Services Knowledgebase, and further assistance.
Sign up for a training or induction session with Digital Services including Moodle, Panopto and Zoom inductions and training in technology enhanced learning tools and digital accessibility.

Virtual Learning Environment

Getting started with Moodle:
- Staff guides for new starters: documents and support resources to help you find the answers you need.
- Your Moodle Checklist: the top ten recommendations that will help you get ready for your Moodle course to go live this term.
Moodle Updates: our most recent update was on 13 January 2022 when we upgraded to Moodle 3.11.
Google Apps: IT Services offers support and training for Google calendar, email and drive.
- Google Calendar is your main Brookes calendar space, organise your appointments, teaching, and other events.
- Google Mail is your university email inbox.
- Google Drive is your secure cloud storage, organise files, folders, and documents..
Student Record System: the Banner SRS contains student information, course information, and module data.

Accessibility
- Your Accessibility Checklist: use the checklist to help you create accessible resources that all your students can see, use, and understand.
- Accessibility Guidelines: find out more about the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines from the Government Digital Service.
- Accessibility at Brookes: view our web accessibility statement and access information about accessibility tools.
Inclusive teaching
- Inclusive learning and teaching: learn more about diversifying the curriculum and supporting students' learning needs.
- Design of student materials: find out more about how to format and produce accessible and inclusive resources.
- The Inclusive Digital Teacher: learn more about how to build inclusive digital learning environments, including blended and online-only courses.

Session recording with Panoptoand using the Video Library:
- Use the Desktop Recorder: record live lectures and pre-record presentations.
- Upload a video to the Panopto Video Library: create videos using your smart device, Camtasia, Screencastify, or other video recording/editing platform..
Online meetings, sessions, and web conferencing:
- Zoom: online meeting space with recording facility for lectures, seminars, and large meetings. (All recordings will be automatically available in the Video Library.)
- Google Meet: online meeting space connected to your Google Calendar for informal sessions, one-to-one or individual sessions and other smaller meetings.
Collaborate with Padlet:
- Padlet: encourages engagement and participation during face-to-face, online, and blended teaching and training sessions using digital bulletin boards.
- Request a Padlet license to get started.
Get support:
- The Teaching Toolkit: curated by Digital Services, IT Services, and the Oxford Centre for Academic Enhancement and Devlopment (OCAED).
- Zoom and Panopto at Brookes: collected guidance on how to use Zoom and Panopto for your teaching.
- Your Zoom glossary: find out what all the Zoom terms mean.

Reading Lists: search for your module's reading list by module code or module leader. Don't forget to log in to edit your module's reading list.
Library:
- Library Search: find a library resource.
- Scanning Service and copyright information for teaching: learn more about how to request a scanned copy of a library resource and information on how to share materials and resources.
LibKey Nomad: a browser extension that gives you fast, one-click access to articles online.
LibKey IO: search for articles by DOI (Digital Object Identifier) or PMID (PubMed Identifier).