Email receipts for assessment submissions via Blackboard

The University will shortly be launching a new feature for our students when they submit an assignment to a Blackboard. After they submit their work, students will receive an email confirming the details of their submission. Online submissions through Blackboard The student – or group of students if it is a group submission – will…

TEL guide for course planning teams published

Members of the TEL team and Assessment Journey Programme have recently compiled a resource to assist course planning teams in ensuring effective use of technology for learning, teaching and assessment during revalidation. The ‘Design with Online in Mind‘ leaflet provides information about key considerations related to the use of technology and links to other resources…

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Report on Marking Practice at SHU

As part of the Assessment Journey Programme, a survey was sent at the start of the year to all academic staff involved in marking student work. The survey intended to capture marking practice at SHU during the period in which the survey was open. The responses from the 600 members of staff who completed the survey…

Preparing your 2014/15 PebblePad Workspaces

If you have been using PebblePad Workspaces (i.e. ATLAS) through Blackboard for assessment it is important to note that they are not copied into new Blackboard sites at the start of the year, therefore you will need to add new links in your sites. After you have added the link to your Blackboard site in…

Critiquing: An Approach to Teaching and Learning

Critiquing is an approach that encourages students to consider their own work by drawing comparisons with the work of their peers. Traditionally, students will submit their work to be critiqued by fellow students and perform their own critique on the work of one or more peers. Through this process the students get feedback on their work from their fellow students and,…

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Turnitin submissions in the Grade Centre

Submissions to Turnitin made by students between 22 January and 29 January 2014 may not have appeared in the Grade Centre. This issue is now resolved, and those submissions should now appear.  If you have submissions that you think should appear but don’t, you can ‘force’ the submissions to synchronise with the Grade Centre by: Expand Control Panel…

Contemporary Approaches to Teaching – Panel Q & A response

Prior to our recent event, Contemporary Approaches to Teaching – December 10th 2013, we asked participants to submit questions for a panel ‘question time’ on the theme of  ‘integrating technology in learning’ and teaching’ and ‘what prevents you or your colleagues from integrating technology in your teaching’. While the panel was able to respond to some…

Case Study: Using screencasts and exercises to develop software skills

This case study explores the use of screencasts and supplemental exercises to support students in developing their competence with a particular piece of software. The software requires a significant amount of time to master but the amount of other material that needed to be covered meant that the this was not possible during the timetabled sessions. Instead, the…

What are Pecha Kucha presentations?

Pecha Kucha (or, more formally, Pecha Kucha 20×20) is a style of presentation where each presentation lasts exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds. The reason for this is that the presentation is made up of 20 slides, each of which is displayed for 20 seconds before automatically moving onto the next. The format originated in 2003 as…