Guides

A guide for the senior leaders of colleges and universities — principals, vice-chancellors and their leadership teams - to help them make decisions about AI implementation.

Guidance to help you understand your institution’s AI journey.

Tools and inspiration to help leaders bring together diverse groups of professionals to achieve operational goals and digital transformation.

This guide, developed by members of the UK XR community, explores the use of augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) for teaching and learning.

How to develop digital capability using a community-led approach that embeds staff recognition and peer support.

For those delivering AI across a college or university, this guide sets out the detail behind each of the three pillars of our strategic AI framework — with recommended tools and activities, real examples from the sector, and a checklist for each.

With a few basic checks, you can ensure your external internet-facing systems run smoothly and without interruption during high-risk periods.

Senior leaders are key to driving digital success and our digital elevation tool can help turn strategy into action.

How organisations can use immersive technologies to enhance learning and teaching.

A quick guide for libraries and research offices to help researchers with UKRI funding make their research immediately available.

How publishers can help researchers make UKRI-funded monographs, book chapters, and edited collections openly available.

A quick guide for libraries and research offices to help researchers with UKRI funding make their research immediately available.

Practical steps for publishers to ensure researchers can use UKRI open access funds to make their research immediately available.

Learn how to confidently select and procure a current research information system (CRIS).

A guide to support organisations wanting to review their virtual learning environment (VLE) use.

Explore our collection of community-created resources designed to aid the implementation of rights retention policies at UK higher education institutions.

A best practice guide on how to incorporate e-books into curriculum delivery, plus promotional strategies and admin support for library services.

How organisations can use digital tools and technologies to develop learners’ employability skills.

Questions for senior leaders.

Helping curriculum teams consider the pedagogic differences between in place and online learning, and the need to balance flexibility with the specific needs of students.

What are the key changes?

How UKRI funded researchers can use UKRI’s open access fund to make their research immediately available open access.

Sut all Sefydliadau addysg bellach yng Nghymru ddarganfod, mabwysiadu neu wella’r defnydd o gynnwys wedi’i recordio a’i ffrydio ar gyfer addysgu a dysgu?

How can further education Institutions in Wales discover, adopt or enhance the use of recorded and streamed content for teaching and learning?

Sut all athrawon addysg bellach yng Nghymru ddarganfod, mabwysiadu neu wella’r defnydd o gynnwys wedi’i recordio a’i ffrydio ar gyfer eu haddysgu a’u dysgu?

How can further education teachers in Wales discover, adopt or enhance the use of recorded and streamed content for their teaching and learning?

Communicating research as fully and openly as possible whilst respecting the original authors’ rights.

How members can use Jisc's network performance test servers to diagnose and troubleshoot their network issues.

A comprehensive perspective on how the digital environment can support positive work, research and learning experiences, and promote a sense of belonging and wellbeing.

Using data to make smarter use of your university estate.

How researchers can publish their research open access in a transformative journal to meet funding requirements.

Cyngor ac arfer da ar draws y sector AB yng Nghymru i helpu i wella eich cynaliadwyedd ariannol a chynllunio tuag at sero net.

Advice and good practice from across the FE sector in Wales to help improve your financial sustainability and plan towards net zero.

Explore the technical challenges and best practices involved in moving large volumes of data between sites on Janet and beyond.

Educational institutions’ premises used to consist of just bricks and mortar. Now, most also include sensors and data - the 'smart campus'.

Identify what good assessment and feedback look like in your context to benchmark existing practices and plan improvements.

Supporting and giving guidance to new university presses and library-led publishing ventures.

Inclusive practice is the basis of good digital delivery. We look at the practical approaches making good use of technology to support an inclusive learner journey.

Guidance on how to ensure your audio and video recordings meet Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations and tips from across the sector.

The benefits of moving to IPv6, advice on how to create a business case and tips for deployment.

The benefits that inclusive digital practice has on wellbeing and what you can do to make the best use of technology for all learners.

Helping academics to make informed choices when embedding digital into the curriculum.

Digital technologies are creating new opportunities where educators are required to deliver the skills needed for the future. A digital strategy is the road map to providing a digitally transformed experience.

From accessible documents to dealing with video, how you can comply with the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations.

Suggesting how education providers can ensure that their use of data to support wellbeing does not create risks for students or staff.

Keep your organisation’s staff and students working safely online, whether they’re on or off-campus.

Practical tips to maintain teaching, learning and business operations during circumstances where staff or learners are unable to physically spend time on campus.

Putting into practice the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018 for colleges and universities.

Guidance and retention schedules for information held in higher and further education institutions.

How colleges and training providers (including employer-providers) can effectively apply digital technologies to support apprentices.

Learning occurs as the result of interaction between learners and their environment. When the learning has a planned outcome, it becomes a purposeful activity that requires the artistry and skill of a learning designer.

Data protection law regulates how colleges, universities and other learning providers collect and use information about students, staff and others. It also provides individuals with the right to access information held about them.

Making an informed decision on whether a merger is the right choice for your organisation.

Many educators see e-portfolios as vital to learning, teaching and assessment. Our quick guide takes you through the basics.

Discover how your organisation can help to reduce and overcome the barriers faced by learners with special educational needs.

Setting out the responsibilities of educational institutions to ensure that learning analytics is carried out responsibly, appropriately and effectively.

Institutions need to know how to share and protect their own outputs while not infringing the rights of others.

How digital platforms and tools can support access to ‘any time any place’ learning that is essential for learners in the workplace.

Clarifying the legal aspects of recording lectures at UK further and higher education institutions.