Save yourself time by setting up your new module correctly from the start. – Import your course material from last year’s/last trimester’s module – Add a Panopto block to your new module – Copy Panopto Videos to a new module – Add Webex Online Meetings to Your Module – Request …
Turnitin works from a 1-100 percentage scale and does not have the facility to introduce other scales. This is not a problem for undergraduate assessment which is marked as a percentage, but postgraduate assessment at the University is marked using the ‘Postgraduate Scale’, a scaling system with 16 bands. Marking …
Are you thinking of flipping your classroom, changing your assessments, or designing interactive learning materials? Are you aware of the technologies available to support your module’s classroom and online delivery? This presentation gave a tour of the University’s learning technology toolbox and was part of the inaugural Research and Learning …
This issue has been resolved in recent Moodle upgrade. We were made aware of a Turnitin bug that could allow students to access their mark in the Moodle Grades before the post date has passed. The bug occured when a Turnitin assignment was hidden and then subsequently shown to students, …
During this academic session the University is moving the module evaluation surveys to an online system called EvaSys. The My Module Evaluations block has been placed on the Moodle dashboard alongside your course list (not within individual modules). It provides students with links to available evaluations in EvaSys, and provides staff with …
The Universty is looking to capture the student voice and respond proactively, and will be seeking to gain student feedback on their experience through a range of different mechanisms. The touchpoint survey has been developed as a helpful tool to enhance the practice that currently goes on across the University, …
Moodle has been upgraded to version 3.4 and here you will find details of the most noticeable changes. These include a new plugin for plagiarism checking within Moodle Assignments, a new plugin for creating interactive content, and a range of other enhancements designed to improve course design and management. Managing …
A set of eSubmission Guidelines have been created to support staff with setting up, downloading and processing student coursework submissions. eSubmission refers to the process of students submitting their work online, and many modules already use this method successfully with Turnitin or Moodle Assignments. View the eSubmission page for an overview of …
If you have a number of quizzes and assignments then you may want to present students with grade totals that more accurately reflect the formative and summative activities in your module. This involves creating two grade categories which we will call summative and formative. You can create any categories you like as shown in …
Use of Mahara has proven beneficial in terms of improving student engagement and efficiency savings for the course tutors (joint module leaders Vera Macdonald & Anne Campbell) as traditional posters and presentations were replaced with Mahara e-portfolios. As this module has >80 students per trimester the primary objective was to …