Sunset Tool

The SUNSET tool can help with planning the student learning experience within a study unit. It is a spreadsheet that includes several templates for different learning formats: short pods, semester long units and intensive summer term units. You can adapt these to suit your own context. It allows you to plan how much time you expect students to spend on each type of study activity; in class, online or self-directed. You can then see how to balance the student workload and optimise timing of activities, assessment and feedback. The tool also captures your decisions about what resources, facilitation and digital tools will be needed to support these activities. For a new or revised unit, you will then have in one place all the information needed to generate formal documentation and organise the teaching input.