Canvas focus workshops
Canvas has many powerful features and tools to help your students learn online and for you to support, interact and assess them. Because it…
Anonymous marking – communicating with students
Written assignments can be easily set up for anonymous marking in both Canvas and Blackboard, as long as this is done before it is…
Professional development for academic leadership in curriculum design
Sydney’s new undergraduate curriculum is both bold and challenging in its aim to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to be agile…
Fellowship opportunities with the Higher Education Academy
Following a successful pilot program last year, the University of Sydney has been awarded accreditation by the UK’s Higher Education Academy for two programs:…
Connecting the dots in the new curriculum
Curriculum is ambitious business. In designing it, we make a claim about what we ought to teach, and what our students ought to learn….
Implementation of anonymous marking
From Semester 1, 2018, anonymous marking of written assignments, tests and examinations should be undertaken across all units of study. This will help to…
Making Sense of Feedback in Public Health Assessments
The importance of feedback in higher education is already well established. This is even more so the case given the move towards more student-centred…
How interactive teaching can work: A response to Dirk Moses
In this extended piece for Teaching@Sydney, Julia Kindt, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History in the Faculty of Arts and…
EdTool Tips #12: Canvas, Echo360, and Your Lecture Recordings
With Semester 1 sites built, and the Canvas Transition Project going live as we speak, it is a good time to provide an update…
Improving feedback on written assignments in a large economics unit
Good writing skills are a key job market attribute of university graduates. However, most junior units of study in economics do not provide writing…