Supporting student groupwork
Group work was introduced right at the start of this Planning module to get students working together ready for their assessed group project. Find out how it worked.
Category: Central Services
The Great Wall of student engagement: Using Quizzes and New Analytics to inform community design
Helen Atkinson – Careers Consultant Careers Service What did you do? I used Canvas New Analytics and Quizzes to monitor how students were engaging with non-credit bearing careers initiatives, specifically the following two projects: China Career Gateway: An annual extracurricular career development programme designed to help Chinese students at Newcastle University prepare for their graduate Read more about The Great Wall of student engagement: Using Quizzes and New Analytics to inform community design[…]
‘Advancing the SDG’s Together’: a US/UK Student Symposium
Students worked together in this online event to share experiences and develop ideas to advance selected Sustainable Development Goals.
Working in partnership: tackling sustainability challenges with a student-led virtual event
Students from our University took part in a successful online event with students at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi (IITD) to share ideas around environmental sustainability.
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.
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.