It is a shared responsibility for both teachers and learners to make group work effective. Group work skills should not be assumed and need to be taught if students are to be work ready. Being an effective team member and collaborator is an important professional and personal attribute.
Need a refresher with our online assessment tools? Book in for one (or more) of our assessment workshops in March.
Coming up at the LX Grant Showcase - Amela Peric and Leila Moslemi Naeni will be talking through their redesign of a group activity and individual assessment in the subject Project Management Principles.
Don't wait until assessment period starts, take a look at this post now to learn the basics of using Turnitin for assignments.
How can you use SPARKPLUS to ensure fairness and equity in group work? Find out more with this recap from this year’s LX.lab Technology Showcase.
Join us for Assessment month throughout July at the LX.lab, where we’ll demystify marking, online quizzes and more! Take a look at some of our events and book in for a workshop.
We have been educators for years. But have we ever thought about why we are having exams in our classes? What’s in it for the students? Are exams really necessary? We need to rethink the purpose of exams and to re-evaluate our approach as educators.
Don’t feel overwhelmed by the changes to the assessment policy and procedures! Take a moment to look at three important features.
Open book exams are, in general, more authentic as assessment tasks. They mimic real world conditions better, and can side-step the memorisation-regurgitation of information for which closed-book exams are notorious. But how do you get them right?
To help you with the new Assessment policy, here's our hand-picked selection of 18 recommended resources for using online assessment tools at UTS.
