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Developing inclusive teaching with Teachly
Anna Cox, UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences
Project dates: October 2021 – October 2022
Summary
The ed-tech application ‘Teachly’ strives to make higher education classrooms both more inclusive and more effective by bringing under-represented voices into a classroom conversation and providing academic staff with a window into their teaching that they would otherwise not have. Teachly enables staff to capture student engagement during face-to-face or hybrid live lectures, which existing UCL platforms Moodle and Echo360 are unable to facilitate.
Teachly has 3 key features:
- Real-Time Stats: Teachly generates session-by-session analytics — combined into thematic dashboards — that identify patterns and help to flag students that may be falling through the cracks.
- Student Profiles: Teachly builds rich, searchable student profiles about their backgrounds, interests, and goals. This allows for personalized interactions with each student.
- Interactive Seating Chart: By visualizing data as they’re laid out in the real world, Teachly focuses attention on spatial blind spots, as well as on individual students that may need support.
This project will pilot the use of Teachly at UCL, providing an opportunity for staff to enhance their teaching practice and for students to feedback on the impact. The rationale for the project stems from research on higher education institutions in North America which have adopted use of the software.