Quick Guides for learning and teaching
Bite sized chunks of learning and teaching theory and practice – a quick read at just 1 or 2 A4 page each.
Each guide provides links to additional resources should you wish to explore further.

Quick Guide (and link) | Description |
Actioning Evaluation | Advice on interpreting the results of TEDS survey results with links and resources to help you take action on the outcomes. |
Constructive Alignment | Defining and applying constructive alignment. |
Evaluation Surveys | An overview of the TEDS survey instruments used at Macquarie to formally evaluate the student experience of the unit and teaching practices. |
Evidencing your teaching | How to evidence your teaching practice using multiple quantitative and qualitative data sources from within and beyond the classroom. |
Feedback Methods | Specifying how feedback will happen. |
Feedback Strategies for Markers | A guide for markers on providing impactful feedback that is time efficient and effective. |
Grade Descriptors | Defining and applying grade descriptors and standards to evaluate student performance. |
Improving Feedback Impact and Quality | Using different types of feedback and feed-forward strategies, and introducing feedback related activities in lectures, tutorials and iLearn sites. |
Informal Evaluation | Finding out what students think of your unit using methods other than the end of session surveys. |
Learning Outcomes | Writing feasible learning outcomes. |
Peer Marking | How to guide students on peer marking and decide which tools to use to support the process. |
Quiz Analysis | Analysing the performance of iLearn quiz questions can help improve the quality of quiz assessment tasks. iLearn provides statistical reports for the quiz overall and individual questions. |
Quiz Randomisation | Using the different types of randomisation in iLearn (Moodle) quizzes can reduce opportunities for academic integrity breaches. |
Rubric Design | Creating and using rubrics that are easy for students and markers to understand. |
Student Participation | Ways to encourage student participation. |
Student Workload | Specifying how students will spend their time in the unit’s activities (how many hours). |
Unit Activities | Specifying classes and learning activities |
Unit Assessment | Specifying how students will be assessed. |
Unit Guides | What should be included in a Unit Guide. How to write a good unit description. |
Universal Design for Learning | Designing materials, methods and assessment to serve all students to the greatest extent possible. |
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