CILT offers practical and pedagogical support to help teaching teams design engaging courses, navigate teaching challenges, use Amathuba effectively, and make informed choices about learning technologies and assessment practices.
Below are options for support that you can select depending on whether you want to talk with someone, refer to help documentation, join a group of colleagues grappling with similar challenges, or sign up for a workshop or webinar.
What kind of help are you looking for?
Book a Learning Designer
Speak to a helpful colleague with expertise in learning design about a specific teaching, course design, Amathuba or learning tool selection challenge. Bookings can be made with a 48 hour lead time, subject to consultant availability. Book a consultation.
Book an Academic Developer
Do you have a teaching and learning challenge you'd like to discuss? Book a session with one of CILT's Academic Staff Development team members to discuss teaching challenges, assessment design, AI in education, and much more. Bookings can be made with a 48 hour lead time, subject to consultant availability.
Book a consultation.
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CILT Helpdesk
Technical advice about using specific Amathuba tools and lecture recordings.
Call (021) 650 5500 on weekdays between 9am and 5pm or email cilt-helpdesk@uct.ac.za.
Online Teaching Community
Visit the UCT Online Teaching Community on MS teams where you can engage with other educators on teaching and learning topics.
We also post regular updates there of general interest.
Bespoke Course Design
If you have a request beyond the services listed above, involving course design, curriculum development or digital content creation, please provide details here, email Catherine.Robb@uct.ac.za and you will be contacted within a week.
Amathuba Resources
for Staff
Amathuba powered by D2L's Brightspace is UCT’s new digital learning platform. The platform offers a wide range of features, in an attractive, modern, and engaging user interface.
Courses and Training
Browse our current workshops and webinars covering theoretical and practical guidance on a range of teaching and learning methods and practices. Selected recordings from our previous webinar series are also available.
Teaching Support: Frameworks & Guides
Detailed ‘how-to’ guides, including text guides and screencasts for specific online teaching practices and tools.
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One Button Studios
Discover the power of seamless integration with the One Button Studio (OBS), the ultimate tool for enhancing your Vula and Amathuba accounts. Rethink the way you teach and learn with automated video recording capabilities.
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