Co-convening is the most direct way I know to help a colleague learn how to run a large course. Two colleagues have co-convened PHCM9391 with me over the past two years, sharing the organisation of student communications and course delivery for about 400 students, the tutorials, and the decisions during term about how to adapt to change. Both have now gone on to convene courses on their own.
I also mentor two academics in UNSW research centres on their teaching, and I have helped colleagues convening for the first time with practical advice and resources. I shared my approaches to scaffolding, templates, marking processes, student check-in surveys and “living FAQs” with other convenors, several of whom have adopted them.
Each term I share my full myExperience reports, including students' written comments, with the other health management convenors and with the Director and Deputy Director of Teaching. I do this to make sharing results normal practice in our teaching team and to alert colleagues to issues the cohort may be facing.