Course Resources Planning

When planning course resources

When planning course resources, consider:

• What will the students do with the resources?
• Will the resources be accessible to all students? Do all students have access to the necessary technology?
• How can you make it easy for the students to navigate through the resources with minimum support?
• Will the resources you develop be reusable in other contexts?
• Should you upload your media resources to theBox? (For more information, see the theBox media manager page.) This will allow streaming and will not require students to download large files. It's also an easy way for you to manage and publish your video material.

Build course content into learning activities

Rather than asking students to work through and memorise content, involve them in an active learning process. For example, set up a group project that requires them to engage with the material to solve a problem or produce a report.

For ideas on ways to engage your students in learning, see the Teaching Approaches and Strategies pages of this website.

Types of online resources

Online resources can encompass everything from links to your lecture notes and lecture recordings to a well-edited list of links to external resources, multimedia tutorials or simulations. Some commonly used resource types are listed in the table below.

Table 1: Common types of course resources

Course packs and the UNSW Library

If you want to link to text or images from books and journals, copyright requirements prohibit you from scanning and uploading this material yourself. Contact the Library as early as possible to request links to this material. The Library can also offer a direct link to third-party copyright material (book chapters, articles etc.) from UNSW Moodle. It is important to put in your request by the deadline set by the Library prior to each semester.

For further information about including Library content in your course, visit Providing access to course materials.