Facilitating Active Learning for diverse student cohorts
Dr Chris Leyland discusses positioning students as active participants in scholarly practices that facilitate professional competences.
Category: Assessment and feedback
Support to Study in Sociology
The Sociology programme embedded a clearer Support to Study model, giving students flexible, personalised deadlines to support wellbeing alongside work pressures, improving student autonomy, mental health outcomes, and satisfaction, despite increased staff workload.
Communicating to succeed: enhancing Bioscience students’ skills through science communication
Discover how a flexible, adaptable 3-week summer project focusing on science communication can enhance bioscience students’ academic and professional skill gains, placement attainment rates, confidence, as well as provide a transnational educational opportunity.
Using ArcGIS StoryMaps to practice digital storytelling
Dr David Hope reflects on using ArcGIS StoryMaps as a summative assessment for a second-year undergraduate module and offers practical advice and inspiration for colleagues interested in the potential of this digital tool as a form of authentic assessment.
Group Work & Assessment in Engineering
Dr Henny Mills, Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering discusses creating inclusive groups and supporting collaboration in Civil Engineering.
The LOV AI Co-Creation Approach: Creating Business Teaching Cases with Deep Research AI
Dr David Grundy used the Lecturer Oversight and Verification of AI (LOV AI) Co-Creation Approach with ChatGPT o3 Deep Research and expert supervision to to produce extended case studies, concise summaries, and a suite of derivative teaching materials.
Enhancing support for international students in Faculty of Medical Sciences
Dr Alessio Iannetti (FMS) explored how best to support international students—while comparing their needs to those of home students. Guided by student and colleagues feedback, his pilot project suggests practical ways to strengthen support and foster inclusive learning communities.
Using Inspera Digital Exams for a Language Module Assessment Strategy
Loiana Leal, Lecturer in Modern Languages, worked with the LTDS Digital Exams Team to introduce digital exams using Inspera in a Portuguese module—co-creating authentic assessments with students to improve marking, feedback, and the overall experience.
Using portfolios to capture competency and engagement beyond module assessment
Discover how Katie Wray, Senior Lecturer in Engineering, collaborated with colleagues from LTDS and FMS TEL to pioneer an innovative reflective portfolio approach that was used with first-year undergraduate engineering students.
Viewing a module’s exam questions to enhance student engagement
John Hedley, Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering, explains how his module’s NUMBAS exam assesses students’ effort during the module, by giving them the opportunity to see, practise and ask for advice on all exam questions prior to taking the exam, and in the process developing a deep understanding of the module’s learning outcomes.