These ‘hands-on’ elective workshops (60 mins each) on Friday 30 August will provide you with an opportunity to acquire new or enhanced L&T skills and/or resources from our colleagues in the divisions and fellow BJBS academics. Almost all workshops are being offered twice, giving you a choice of 8 workshops in both the 9:35 am and 11.20am timeslots.
Sign-up for your two preferred workshops
As numbers are limited for some workshops and some require a small amount of preparation, once you’ve read the below information, please sign up for your two workshops by clicking the link. If you change your mind, just click on the link again and make your adjustments. Locations will be determined by sign-up numbers to each workshop and advised closer to the symposium.
| Facilitator | Workshop title and description | Location & offerings |
|---|---|---|
| Jay Cohen & Kirstin Donaldson (TOL) | Less guesswork: learning analytics for student success There are many things that student performance data can tell us. The effective use of such data can allow us to focus development time and teaching intervention strategies on areas of student concern. This approach can ultimately lead to a better student experience.
In this workshop, we will explore some of the different types of student data that is available. Participants will also form into small groups to unpack the data for a specific subject, before considering how it might be used to improve learning design and teaching. The workshop will conclude with a brief overview of how this approach is being applied in TOL. Preparation: You’ll need a laptop, tablet or smartphone to participate fully. |
9.35am (full)
11:20am Wal Fife (14.101) |
| Kath Herbert (BJBS), Annette Goodwin (DLS) | Make Leganto your best friend: Four quick and easy things you can do today. Accessing the required resources for a subject is critical to a student’s success. Ensuring all students, including those at partner institutions in Australia and overseas, have equitable access to readings requires a concerted effort. Leveraging the features of the Library’s i2 reading list tool, Leganto, and working collaboratively with the Library, students are provided seamless access to resources they need. In this workshop, we’ll explore how you can utilise readings lists across your subjects and i2 sites. We will look at how different faculties and schools worked collaboratively with the Library to provide students seamless access to the resources they need and what the impact on student success may look like. Come along and meet your new best friend, Leganto.
Preparation: You’ll need a laptop, tablet or smartphone to participate fully. |
9.35am
11:20am Library (13.286) |
| Jason Howarth (TOL) | Meet ASSIST The new ASSIST (Assessment Scheduling and Student Interactive Support Tools) can be used within subjects to enable flexible assessment for students. The ASSIST tool also provides dashboard and reporting capabilities to support online students. ASSIST consists of two major functions: Flexible assessment scheduling and OSA student support. In this workshop, we will look at how ASSIST can be incorporated into your subject to support flexible assessment, and explore the different features of the tool which include monitoring student submissions, tagging features, and assignment status tracking.
Preparation: You’ll need a laptop, tablet or smartphone to participate fully. |
9.35am
11:20am Wal Fife (14.102) |
| Phil Hua (DLT) | Let’s activate learning with your learning spaces Active learning strategies are proven to help students increase performance in their subjects. Classes that utilise active learning provide opportunities for higher-order thinking and improve their academic performance. In this interactive session, we will immerse everyone with activities that you can use in your own teaching, covering 1-2 technologies (free) with learning spaces to make the student and yourself, the main character of the learning story (online and F2F). This will include discussions of the learning strategies and showcasing of innovative teaching case studies around CSU.
Preparation: You’ll need a laptop, tablet or smartphone to participate fully. |
9.35am
11:20am Library (13.285) |
| Michael Kemp (BJBS) | Meet QUASAR From 201960, the Online Moderation System will be replaced by the Quality Assurance and Reflection (QUASAR) System (https://teach.csu.edu.au/quasar/) for all schools. This workshop is for subject convenors, moderators and coordinators. You will see how to use and make the most of the new system.
Preparation: You’ll need a laptop, tablet or smartphone to participate fully. |
9.35am
11:20am Library (13.287) |
| Richard Brimson (DLT) | Augment and Virtual Reality Do we want it and do we need it in our teaching? What is it all about? Where do we get it? Can we make it ourselves? This session will cover these questions but will probably leave you with more questions than answers!
Preparation: You’ll need a smartphone to participate fully. |
CANCELLED |
| Carole Hunter (BJBS) | CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS, TURN UP TO ANOTHER WORKSHOP
Open practices…just for open courses? What does CSU’s adopted Open Learning platform look like, and what kind of open, participatory practices does it promote? And why would we want to adopt such practices anyway? Get your hands dirty in this workshop, exploring a range of open resources, practices, and spaces that you can apply not only to the development of fully open courses but to your own work. Preparation: You’ll need a laptop, tablet or smartphone to participate fully. |
11:20am only
Library (13.278/281) CANCELLED |
| Sam Parker (Learning Technologies) | NORFOLK for beginners NORFOLK is an add-in for Microsoft Word which consists of a collection of tools used to assist in paperless marking. This session will cover the basics of efficient paperless marking using Word. This includes saving your rubric, inserting your rubric into assignments, comment banks, audio comments and moderation/QA capabilities.
Use of NORFOLK affords many engaging styles of marking that allows for richer feedback to be provided in an efficient manner. This includes enhancing teacher presence through audio feedback as well as the incorporation of friendly visual elements and feedback used by ALLAN advisors in responding to students. Preparation: You’ll need a laptop, tablet or smartphone to participate fully. |
9.35am only
Library (13.289) |
| Sam Parker (Learning Technologies) | Advanced NORFOLK (for existing NORFOLK users) and interpreting Turnitin results This session will show all the advanced features of NORFOLK including the ability to use NORFOLK for marking practical (non-written) assessments, moderation of assignments in NORFOLK and new batch processes to speed up marking overall (particularly for multiple marker subjects). Interpretation of Turnitin results will also be covered with an emphasis on how to exclude matches and see sources student matches side by side.
Preparation: It is expected that attendees will be at a minimum familiar with the various features of NORFOLK and/or have used Turnitin for assessment checking to gain the most out of discussing some of the more advanced concepts available with these applications. You’ll need a laptop, tablet or smartphone to participate fully. |
11:20am (full)
Library (13.289) |
| Debbie Wheeler (Academic Skills) | Prevention is better than cure: An academic literacy health check for your subject Preventing a problem is better than trying to fix it later or deal with the consequences – right? How can you diagnose and address literacy issues before they interfere with student learning and save yourself having to mark poorly written assessment tasks? Ensuring students have the support and scaffolding they need to read, listen, understand, write, and speak at an appropriate level for your subject, the discipline, and the student’s future profession is a responsibility shared by all of us. Why not use this session to think through the issues, explore the possibilities, and identify a simple plan of action that will benefit both you and your students? Bring along the outline of a subject you are developing or teaching, and use the Academic Literacy Health Check and Prevention Plan tools to identify how you can best support your students’ learning and performance. Using your experience and expertise in the subject content along with suggestions for resources and strategies compiled by the Academic Skills team, this session will take you through a process of diagnosing the main issues, exploring the options, and developing a customised, integrated, timely, effective, and efficient prevention plan. Preparation: Bring along an outline of a subject you are developing or teaching. |
9.35am
11:20am Library (13.284) |