Do you have an endless subject page? This makes navigation difficult.

• El type: Compacts the material. Uses resources such as carpets (to group files), books (for paginated content) or tabs/drop-down menus (e.g. H5p activity Accordion). 
• El results: A clean home page where the student quickly finds what they are looking for, reducing visual overload from seeing a lot of content at once.
• El extra tip: If you have a hidden section, prevent your students from viewing the title by choosing the option to hide inactive sections in Course Settings > Course Format.

Including a video doesn't guarantee that they'll watch it (or understand it).

• El type: Don't upload the video "as is." You can add questions within the video, make it impossible to skip ahead, and collect evidence that they have viewed it and the result of the evaluation in the grades.
• L'tool: Use the H5P activity Interactive video to convert passive viewing into active learning. 

Want to try out a new setup without students seeing it, or share material with another classmate?

• El type: Create a course in the ATENEA Briefcase and duplicate your subject. You will be able to access it with a student profile to see how everything looks before publishing it in the real course, and take advantage of the contents in the virtual classroom.
• L'tool: He teacher's briefcase, a personal and permanent space for teachers where they can design and test activities and teaching content, and publish them at any time in the virtual classrooms of their subjects.

Almost half of ATENEA accesses are from mobile devices. Does your course look good on a small screen?

• El type: Enables adaptive design mode (responsive) from your browser on your PC to check navigability (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+I in Chrome).
• El format: Make sure to upload documents in PDF, scaled images and in JPG (they weigh less) and videos always linked (e.g. from Zonavideo UPC or YouTube).

A course should not be a repository of documents, but a guided learning experience. Question the need for each document!

• El type: Outsources the hosting of copyright-heavy files to external repositories.
• La configuration: Use the File Chooser to link documents from Google Drive, Zonavideo UPC o UPCommons to save space in ATENEA and centralize permissions.
• El benefits: Any changes to the original file are automatically updated in ATENEA. You gain consistency without having to reload anything.

Google Drive allows you to share files with all the students in your course in seconds. 

• El type: Open the file in Google Drive > Share > In "People and groups" write the address of your subject's group (type ...@assigs.grups.upc.edu). + information
• La recommendation: This gives automatic access to all registered users. Remember to set "View" permissions if you don't want them to edit it!

Do you still calculate averages in a separate Excel? 

• El type: Use the qualifications from ATHENA.
• El benefits: Centralizes grades, automates average calculations and allows students to see their progress in real time. In addition, you can leave grades ready in ATENEA to synchronize from PRISMA without having to export and upload them through a file (+ info). 

Sometimes students don't dare to express their opinions or ask questions openly and do you want to make an anonymous and honest inquiry?

• El type: Use MySurvey, Google Form or the activities at ATENEA of consultation (ex. What day would you prefer to take the exam? (Monday / Tuesday))) or feedback.
• La configuration: Remember to activate the "Anonymous responses" option to guarantee privacy and encourage sincere participation.

Want to know who did what quickly?

• El type: Use the "Course Participation" report or the "Completion progress".
• L'action: Send a mass message (but it arrives personalized) only to students who have not entered your course in the last week (from Participant and setting the criterion "inactive users more than 7 days").
• El results: Often, this little "warning" brings back students who were getting sidetracked from the subject.

The rubrics They are an advanced grading method, which is used to assess student work or presentations, based on criteria.

• El type: Stop putting numerical grades without explanation by using a rubric.
• El appeal: Configure a Rubric within the ATENEA assignment. The student will see exactly what is expected of him before submitting and you will only have to "click" on each level of the rubric and the grade will be calculated automatically.
• El benefits: Increases transparency and drastically reduces exam review tutorials.

You have your course organized by topics or weeks, but you want to group cross-curricular materials (such as "Practices" or "Exam"). It's very easy: use tags.

• El type: Use the tags resource.
• La configuration: Go to the Settings of the resources you want to group. Add the same word in the Tags section of each one (ex: Exam) and activate the "Tag Cloud" block on the side of the course.
• El benefits: Now your students have a "direct button" in the right menu to access all this material at once, without having to scroll down for all topics!

The Libraries UPC are a selection of information resources (books, databases, standards, articles, etc.) organized by topics, subjects or areas of study, prepared by the team of librarians of the UPC.

• El type: Link to the Biblioguia UPC linked to the thematic area of ​​your subject so that students have direct access to quality information resources.
• La configuration: Add a sidebar of HTML text and create a banner for the thematic guide you want to share, creating a permanent window to reliable information.
• El benefits: Prevents students from getting lost browsing Google. Find reliable, academic and validated resources directly, saving time on fruitless searches.

Organize and display the learning sequence so that the student knows where they are and where they are going at all times.

• El type: Good planning reduces the student's uncertainty, allowing them to quickly find their bearings and know what is expected of them at all times.
• La configuration: Combines visual resources (e.g. H5P Activity Timeline)and ATENEA blogs (“Course Calendar”, “Upcoming Events”, “Completion Progress”) to cover all needs.
• El benefits: You will be able to better monitor the group's progress.