vUWS Cruise - Ride the Assessments Wave!

Workshop

Recordings

Bon Voyage! Designing Quiz Questions!

Facilitated by Caroline Lunt, Educational Advisor.

Ahoy there! Set sail on smooth waters with vUWS question design - the ultimate captain of your Digital Learning journey. Online quizzes can be efficient and engaging learning activities. Designing quiz questions that push your students to develop higher-order thinking is a difficult challenge.

This workshop will explore ways of using online quizzes and questions to challenge students and promote deeper learning. We will discuss when quizzes can be most effective and explore the most appropriate types of questions to use across various contexts.

  • Explain the benefits of online quizzes for assessing student learning
  • Engage with question types that promote higher-order thinking skills
  • Develop quiz questions that align with learning outcomes and mastery of concepts
  • Design engaging quiz questions that promote deeper learning
  • Evaluate and revise quiz questions based on student feedback

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Pool Party! Respondus 4 – Pools

Facilitated by Digital Learning.

Looking for a convenient way to build online assessments? If so, come check out our Respondus 4 workshop! Just like a pool party, Respondus 4’s software is designed to make a splash in your Digital Learning experience.

  • Overview of Respondus 4
  • Importing a Word doc with pool questions into Respondus 4
  • Importing pool questions from Respondus 4 into vUWS
  • Exporting existing vUWS pool questions or Quizzes into Respondus 4 for printing questions and answers

Just in time resources:

Respondus 4 - Online Engagement and Teaching Hub

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Shore Stop! Creating Quizzes in vUWS

Facilitated by Digital Learning.

Get ready to hit the virtual beach with vUWS quizzes - the perfect way to make a splash in your Digital Learning experience.

In this workshop we will go through the process of creating a quiz in vUWS, using pools of questions.

  • ​Overview of types of quiz questions in vUWS
  • Creating and uploading a pool of questions from excel into vUWS
  • Setting up and deploying a quiz
  • Quiz settings

Just in time resources:

vUWS Quizzes - Online Engagement and Teaching Hub

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Escape Room! Marking with Blackboard Rubrics

Facilitated by Digital Learning.

Are you ready to unlock the power of Blackboard Rubrics and discover a whole new world of assessment possibilities? Just like finding the solution in the escape room, Blackboard’s advanced grading tool is designed to help you navigate the challenges of marking online assessments with ease and precision.

  • Create a new Blackboard Rubric
  • Import and export an existing Rubric
  • Attaching a Rubric to a Quiz and Assignment/Assessment submission
  • How to mark using the Blackboard Rubric tool
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Amphitheatre! Marking with Feedback Studios

Facilitated by Digital Learning.

It's time to end the vUWS Cruise with a bang! Just like a great concert, you want to make sure you leave an  unforgettable and lasting impression on your students by giving great feedback.

  • How to view/submit an assignment on behalf of a student
  • How to access Feedback Studio
  • Feedback Studio marking tools
  • Marking a student submission

Just in time resources:

Turnitin Feedback Studios - Online Engagement and Teaching Hub

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Sea Day! Generative AI and assessment

Facilitated by Dr Jen Tindale

Share useful resources and good practice examples and take a tour through new resources on generative AI and assessment on the generative AI news and resources page.

  • Share resources and good practice examples of addressing generative AI in assessment
  • Review highlights from new resources on generative AI and assessment on the generative AI news and resources page

Just in time resources:

Learning Futures Academic Integrity page
Westerns Academic integrity staff resources SharePoint site
Generative AI and Assessment - Presentation

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Sea Day! Alternative Assessments for student engagement

Facilitated by Educational Advisor Iain McAlpine

This workshop will showcase a range of alternative assessments from the perspectives of how they engage students, leading to deeper learning and strengthening academic integrity.  While the assessment tasks themselves may be very different, a range of common aspects will be clarified so that these can be applied to subject development in most discipline areas.

  • Following the workshop, participants should be able to consider alternative assessments that they may develop and apply
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