Equitable Assessment Framework for today’s Digital Learners
This collaborative project supported instructor’s adoption of the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) framework to help structure and communicate their assessments.
Category: Central Services
Using Canvas New Analytics to gain insights into students’ access
Find out if Dr Rachelle Maddison and Dr Raghda Zahran could use Canvas New Analytics to check whether a small cohort of international students could access resources in their own countries.
Co-design Sprint: An approach to engage students in the UN Sustainable Development Goals
A successful example of collaborative working, this design sprint approach resulted in some excellent ideas and inspired some new approaches to engaging students.
Peer Mentoring Induction Period Challenge – ‘Develop a strategy to raise awareness of one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to students on your course’
This challenge gave students the opportunity to become familiar with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, work as a team and demonstrate their creativity. Find out how it worked and view some of the fantastic winning entries.
FMS BNS Health and Safety Case Study
The aim of this project was to produce an online lab health and safety package to support students from Biomedicine, Sports and Nutrition. Academic staff were finding it difficult to monitor student engagement with the module handbook and lab code of conduct and wanted to have a more standardised approach to ensure that all students are aware of and complying with health and safety requirements in the lab.
Managing large file submissions in Fine Art
Chris Jones and Richard Elliott, from the School of Arts and Cultures, explain how they used OneDrive successfully throughout the pandemic to allow students to digitally submit their work in place of what would have been ‘in person’ studio presentations.
Maintaining a Community of Practice around Canvas and Quizzes
Find out how the Library Liaison team’s coordinated and close way of working and use of Canvas and collaboration tools, has enabled them to create and manage vast amounts of quiz and other resources effectively.
Developing Digital Residency for Executive Education Learners
Leadership Development & Organisation Futures Team (LDOF) Newcastle University Business School Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences What did you do? We applied the Digital Residency framework to the design and development of the online spaces for learners on the Executive Education Programmes, creating learning activities and resources that support a continuum of engagement across Read more about Developing Digital Residency for Executive Education Learners[…]
Integrating employability and enterprise into the maths curriculum.
Colleagues in the Careers Service and the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics are working together to deliver the Mathematical Skills and Career Management module. This case study shares how they are successfully embedding employability into the curriculum.
Creativity and Innovation Challenge – A Combined Honours Case Study
Creativity and Innovation challenges are interactive, intensive, competitive student events that the Enterprise Team run with a variety of disciplines. Students are put into teams and presented with the opportunity to work collaboratively on a real life ‘problem’ that they need to solve through developing a product, service or intervention. Read on to find out what happened in Combined Honours…