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The one most important thing you can do in MyUni to make your students' lives better
MyUni (known as "blackboard" to people not at Uni of Adelaide), is a powerful tool for supporting your students' learning. There are a whole lot of awesome things you can use it to do: use discussion boards, have virtual classrooms, set up group assessment, student wikis, and the list goes on. The bread-and-butter of MyUni is of course to put up the lecture notes, assignments and prac instructions.
And this brings me to the most important thing you can do in MyUni to make your students' lives better: label everything properly. And not just any labels – descriptive labels.
Let me illustrate with some examples:
Kindy is awesome
My younger daughter started kindy last week, and I got to actually be there for the beginning of her first day. It was one of those moments only a parent can understand as I realised with both excitement and sadness that my little baby was not a baby any more.