By Sally Eberhard
Throughout the year, I’ve been sharing with the Business School some of the not so well-known features of Canvas, the University’s learning management system. These small, but very helpful ‘Tips and Tricks,’ have proven to be pretty popular with staff within, and outside of, the Faculty.
By: Angela Tsai
In this month’s ILT seminar, I shared my experiences with helping students overcome learning barriers by using existing revision MCQs as a primary resource.
By: Dr Kathleen Foote
Teaching spaces are fast changing to accommodate new approaches to curriculum and pedagogical advances. Separate lab, lecture, and tutorial spaces are increasingly being combined to promote active and collaborative learning in a streamlined approach.
By: Rouxelle De Villiers
E-assessment is an essential part of e-learning, with both becoming ubiquitous in business education. But where to start?
By: Tessa Owens
Embedding employability skills into academic curricula is a key concern for universities and tertiary education institutions today.
This topic was the focus of a University of Auckland Business School (UABS) workshop on the 12th June entitled ‘University and beyond: embedding employability and life into the curriculum’ run by Professor Susan Geertshuis, Narissa Lewis, and Patricia Hubbard.
By Nabeel Albashiry and Anton de Bruyn
Course renewal is the process of reviewing and making small tweaks to a course to improve learning and teaching. This process is usually informed by the students’ feedback from the course SET report, the course analytics from Canvas, or the teachers’ personal reflections on what could be improved for the next course offering.
By: Sally Eberhard
As we move into the examination period, many of us are thinking about final grades and aegrotat. There are a number of support documents that teaching staff can access.
By Sally Eberhard
Sometimes it can be difficult to gauge, in class, whether students are gaining an understanding of what is being taught to them. What if there was a way for teaching staff to capture real-time information from students and modify the lesson based on the live feedback being provided?
By: Sally Eberhard
Crowdmark is a user-friendly, collaborative online grading and analytics platform. It provides fast and efficient online grading for multiple markers on a question by question basis. It can be used for both exams as well as assignments and it comes with free analytics tools. It also integrates with Canvas, allowing you to pull student lists from Canvas into Crowdmark.
By: Ron Tiong
You probably use Canvas and Excel as part of your regular teaching activities, but did you know they can be used to easily discover every Canvas page a student has viewed, generate section and enrolment lists for large classes, and send e-mails with personalised content and attachments? In this seminar, I talked about how Canvas “hacks” and an Excel tool I created for the Business School’s Teaching Initiatives Scheme can enable personalised student engagement opportunities.