To facilitate accessibility and inclusion the university expects synchronous sessions to be recorded where appropriate and feasible. It is expected that you try to record as much as possible to ensure that your learners can watch and review content to support their learning. This is particularly important for international students and students with disabilities, but it is beneficial to all learners. You are not required to record sessions which are inappropriate for sharing (i.e. due to personal nature, business confidentiality, etc), are practical labs/workshops that would be difficult to record, or are largely interactive rather than lecture-style deliver.
In addition to recording synchronous sessions you can create stand alone audio-visual resources to support your learners. For example, you might record a talking head or voice over slides/screen recording to explain particular elements of a subject or to demonstrate a skill. You’ll need to do this type of recording to create your assessment briefs as required in the assessment for learning policy.
To ensure accessibility of recorded materials you should upload all recordings to Panopto where they will be auto-captioned, and embed them in the relevant area of your Blackboard module or course. Panopto is one of the tools within the UniLearn umbrella that works with Blackboard to help manage access to audio-visual content. It also has tools for recording, editing and captioning your content. Guidance on how to use Panopto is available on the Digitally Enabled Education (DEE) webpages.