Storyboarding – It’s now or never!
byStage 1 – Visualising your UoS design Jessica Frawley’s recent article in Teaching@Sydney, ‘(Re)designing Your Unit of Study – Learning Outcomes and Constructive Alignment’,…
Teaching tips
In defence of small teaching
byUniversities can often feel like places of endless optimisation, where grants, research papers, strategic documents and promotions applications, make the case for how much…
Transition to Canvas: June 2017 update
byOur new learning management system (LMS) ‘Canvas’ is being rolled out over 2017 and 2018. Major benefits for staff and students include its speed, modern interface…
Active Teaching Tips: One way to share and display students’ handwritten work during lectures
byGiven the opportunity, students are keen to actively participate in a lecture by doing things such as completing a poll or worksheet. Yet both…
Graduate qualities – what are they and why are they important?
byThroughout higher education there has been a lot of talk about graduate qualities – sometimes referred to as graduate attributes. Graduate qualities are usually defined…
(Re)designing your unit of study – learning outcomes and constructive alignment
byWhether you are designing from scratch, or revising an existing course or subject, a few key principles can help steer you in the right…
EdTool Tips #8: Turnitin Feedback – Providing fully online feedback to your students
byWelcome back to another edition of EdTool Tips. In the last post we went through the seemingly labyrinth means of setting up your dropboxes…
Thinking in Canvas: Using modules to make your unit a real page-turner
byWhen we construct the curriculum for a unit, we often think about the elements fitting together like a story. The topics are sequenced to…
Three tips to get the most out of your student surveys
byIt’s that time of year when we ask our students to fill in Unit of Study Surveys, plus the Feedback for Teachers Survey if…
Finishing well
byTips for concluding the semester Approaching the end of the University semester can bring a heady mix of exhilaration, exhaustion, and relief – for both…