5 Days of Open Education – Sign up now!
What is Open Education Week? Open Education week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement and its impact on teaching, learning and research. The aim is is to raise awareness about free and...
Category: Staff Development
Moodle Monday’s – Annotate student assignments in Moodle
Moodle now has the facility to grade student assignments online using its built-in PDF annotator. This means that assignment files no longer need to be downloaded to be marked electronically. If a student has uploaded...
Moodle Monday’s – Glossary Activity
What is it? The glossary activity enables participants to create and maintain a list of definitions (like a dictionary), or to collect and organise resources or information. Glossaries have many uses, such as: A...
Gamification and Talking About Teaching 2016 #YSJTAT
Friday 22 January 2016, 9.00 am – 4.00 pm ‘Talking about Teaching‘ is our annual event that gives staff an opportunity to engage in conversations about learning, teaching and assessment. The event will create...
Bring Your Own Device for Learning #BYOD4L
‘Bring Your Own Device for Learning’ course (BYOD4L) 11-15 January 2016 BYOD4L is a bite-size facilitated open course offered over 5 days for educators and students in HE but also anybody else who would...
Learn with Lynda: Gamification of Learning
This month, we’re shining the ‘Learn with Lynda’ spotlight on Gamification. Gamification is the introduction of ‘game-like’ features and processes such as ‘levelling-up’, reward systems and challenges into non-game environments such as education. The approach is...
Accessibility in Moodle & Mahara
Use of technology to enhance learning, teaching and assessment should be considered and appropriate, and should never exclude any learner from engaging in the process. The burden of inclusivity lies with all staff, by...
5 Days of EMA and Turnitin – Day 5: Advanced Marking and Feedback
Activity Time Required (approx) Blog post 5 Activity 10 Yesterday, we introduced you to the main marking and feedback tools in Turnitin’s GradeMark system. Today, we’ll take that a step further and look at...
5 Days of EMA with Turnitin – Day 4: Providing Marks and Feedback
Activity Time Required (approx) Blog post 10 minutes Activity 15 minutes In our final two days of the course, we address three stages of the Assessment Lifecycle: Marking and production of feedback Recording of grades Returning...
5 Days of EMA with Turnitin – Day 3: Submitting Assignments and Interpreting Originality Reports
Activity Time Required (approx) Blog post 12 minutes Activity 10 minutes The fourth stage of the Assessment Lifecycle is Submitting. This part refers to the process of students handing over assignments to be marked and fed...