NILE Ultra Course Awards 2025 – Nominations are open!

Have you put together a great NILE Ultra course for 2024/25? Or do you know someone who did? We’re really keen to highlight and celebrate examples of good practice with Ultra, so if you or someone you know has designed a good Ultra course we’d really like to hear from you. You can nominate yourself, or someone else, or multiple members of staff if the Ultra course has been created by more than one person. In your nomination we just need to know who it is that you’re nominating, which module the nomination is for, and what it is that you think has been done well. And you don’t have to tell us who is making the nomination if you don’t want to.

Nominated courses will be reviewed and Ultra Course Awards will be given according to the following criteria:

1. The course follows the NILE Design Standards for Ultra Courses (https://libguides.northampton.ac.uk/learntech/staff/nile-design/nile-design-standards);
2. The course is clearly laid out and well-organised at the top level via the use of content containers (i.e., learning modules and/or folders);
3. Content items within top-level content containers are clearly named and easily identifiable for students, and, where necessary, sub-folders are used to organise content within the top-level content containers;
4. The course contains online activities for students to take part in.

Winners of 2025 Ultra Course Awards will be announced at the University’s summer Learning and Teaching Conference, and you can find out more about last year’s winners here.

• Ultra Course Awards 2025 Nomination Form

Please note that nominations for 2025 Ultra Course Awards close at 23:59 on the 30th of April, 2025