Canvas features a range of useful tools that facilitate group and collaborative work between students. These tools include collaborative Pages, Collaborations – online shared Google Docs or Office 365 documents, and Canvas Groups. In this post we are going to…
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How to enhance your assessments with video presentation
In this blog post, I will explore the potential and possibilities for assessing students’ presentation skills through the medium of video. With the affordances of modern technology, the possibilities for students to create video presentations are now much more accessible.…
Tagged with: assessment, digital skills, Inclusive practice, Multimedia, Video
Posted in Apps and tools, digital skills, Marking and assessment, Mobile learning
Posted in Apps and tools, digital skills, Marking and assessment, Mobile learning
Peer feedback for student learning
Professionals in all fields are constantly giving feedback to, and receiving feedback from, their peers. This blog post, for example, was reviewed by one of my colleagues before it was published and they made suggestions for ways to improve it.…
Tagged with: assessment, Canvas, feedback, Office365, Padlet, peer assessment, peer review
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Posted in feedback
Are electronic examinations the future?
Electronic examinations are exams that are carried out on computers or mobile devices rather than on paper. Paolo Oprandi shares his insights from the ‘Remaking Marking: Electronic Management of Assessment’ event in Reading on emerging practice in this area across…
Feed Forward: 5 steps for students to make the most of feedback
What is feedback and why is it important? Feedback on your performance at university comes in many forms – it could be something as simple as your tutor nodding in agreement when you make a point in seminar discussion, responses…
Canvas highlights 1. Quizzes
Welcome to the first in a series of posts highlighting exciting features staff and students can expect to find in the university’s new virtual learning environment (VLE), Canvas. Each of these posts will showcase a great feature within Canvas that…
Tagged with: assessment, Canvas, Instructure, Quizzes, Quizzing, Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), VLE
Posted in Canvas
Posted in Canvas
What does the update to Turnitin mean for students?
Turnitin is the software used for providing marks and feedback and checking for similarity on text-based assessments as part of the e-submission system at the University of Sussex . Current students will most likely have used Turnitin at some point…
First impressions on Turnitin Feedback Studio from Sussex staff
This week, we provide a summary of first impressions from members of staff at the University of Sussex on Turnitin Feedback Studio. Between July and September, Technology Enhanced Learning have been busy running a series of workshops at the University…
Tagged with: assessment, feedback, Feedback Studio, Plagiarism, Turnitin
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Posted in feedback, Study Direct
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