| Workshop |
Description |
Learning Outcomes |
| Choosing technologies to enhance learning (recording 25min) |
This session will target LICs and focus on the technology selector tool and H5P selector, highlighting the connections between Bloom’s taxonomy and choosing an appropriate tool. |
- Identify the range of tools available in LEO, their functions and limitations
- Select the most appropriate tool for a learning activity or resource
- Locate support and guides for selected tools
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Creating and using Leganto resources to engage students in scholarship
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This session will focus on the range of resources that can be included in a Leganto list and guide you in developing a quality list for your unit. We demonstrate approaches to incorporating these resources in learning activities and tasks to encourage student engagement with the scholarship you have provided for them. |
- Construct a relevant list of diverse resources using Leganto
- Organise and align the list to teaching and learning activities and tasks
- Collaborate with colleagues to edit and manage a list
- Ensure copyright compliance
- Roll over a list to use in other LEO units
- View student downloads to monitor engagement and inform updates to your list
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Creating quality video content (recording 48min)
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This session will focus on the pedagogy behind quality video content for HE, with practical tips on presentation, recording, and basic editing. This session will also introduce the Echo360 online recording and editing system. |
- Recognise and implement pedagogical principles of signalling, segmenting, personalisation, and generative activities in your unit materials.
- Undertake basic recording and editing using Echo360
- Utilise best practice for PowerPoint presentation design and apply tips related to video recording
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Effective Student Feedback (recording 59min)
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This session will focus on creating a more efficient feedback workflow and streamlining the feedback process through Turnitin and Assignment feedback tools. |
- Identify why feedback is important
- Distinguish the differences between online assessment and marking options in Turnitin and LEO assessment tools
- Use these tools to communicate consistent and targeted feedback to your students in an efficient, time effective manner
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| Engaging students online |
How do students interact in an academic online environment? What does an effective online discussion look like? How do we encourage students to engage online when using LEO forums? |
- Identify opportunities and challenges presented by online discussions
- List strategies for planning and implementing effective discussion-based learning
- Plan solutions for common issues in online discussions
- Maximise the effectiveness of teacher participation
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Engaging students online with collaborative learning tools (recording 51min)
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This session will focus on creating on student engagement online using LEO tools such as Discussion Forums, LEO Chat, Wikis and Feedback Fruits. |
- Identify the most appropriate LEO tool for the type of student engagement you are aiming to achieve
- Use the chosen LEO tool to implement an effective assessment activity in your unit
- Determine the success of a LEO tool in promoting student engagement in your unit
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Improving marking workflow in LEO quizzes
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This session will focus on tips for quiz grading such as single-question grading, and tips to improve the marking and moderation workflow. |
- Identify the differences between quiz types including manual quiz questions
- Access quiz grades, responses and statistics results
- Moderate marking workflow for a single question or a whole quiz attempt
- Generate reports for quizzes
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Interactive tutorial strategies using Zoom (Recording Part 1 & 2)
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This session will focus on running tutorials in Zoom, using screen and document sharing functions, managing users, and using breakout rooms, polling, and whiteboards to support student participation and enhance student engagement. |
- Share screens in Zoom including sharing computer sound
- Apply user security
- Control the waiting room
- Create and configure breakout rooms
- Start and stop breakout sessions
- Create a poll on the fly
- Create a poll in advance of a meeting
- Use the new Zoom whiteboards to engage students online
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Introduction to Echo360 for video
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This session will focus on recording lectures and embedding an Echo360 link into a unit for students to view on any device. |
- Access and navigate the Echo360 platform at ACU
- Create Echo360 content using Universal Capture
- Add to and manage content in your Echo360 library
- Deliver and distribute content for student learning
- Access help with Echo360 issues
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Managing Student Groups (recording 51min)
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Using groups can help teachers streamline their workflow. This session will focus on creating and managing student groups in LEO units. |
- Become familiar with the types of groups that can be created in a LEO unit
- Implement groups and groupings in your LEO unit
- Evaluate the effectiveness of groups and groupings in their LEO unit
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Monitoring student progress with learning analytics (recording 19 mins)
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This session is targeted at LICs and will focus on creating, managing and producing reports in IntelliBoard to aid monitoring of student progress. |
- Select the most appropriate report for the analytics you need to produce
- Set the correct filters and parameters to achieve the best results
- Effectively assess the resulting analytical data
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Promoting critical thinking skills with peer review & Feedback Fruits (recording 54min)
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This session will showcase different options for conducting peer review assessments, which promote development of students’ critical thinking skills. |
- Construct a peer review assignment using the available LEO tools
- Distinguish the difference between peer review and group evaluation
- Evaluate the use of peer review as way of promoting critical thinking skills
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Setting up a LEO Quiz (recording 35min)
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This session focuses on creating quizzes in LEO, introduces approaches to multiple choice questions and other question types, and demonstrates how to create a question bank and randomise questions in a quiz setting. |
- Set up a basic quiz in LEO
- Manage quiz settings, including ‘review’ options for individual questions
- Create a question bank with question categories
- Randomise quiz questions
- Control how and when marks are released to students
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Setting up and running an online tutorial in Zoom (recording 58min)
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This session will focus on online tutorials and setting up a Zoom link in a unit for students to access and participate synchronously. |
- Learn to log in to Zoom at ACU
- Recognise the importance of logging in to Zoom before hosting a meeting
- Schedule and host a Zoom meeting
- Apply meeting settings
- Add an alternative host
- Add a passcode and/or waiting room to the meeting and admit people from the waiting room
- Obtain a link with an embedded passcode to the meeting room
- Add a Zoom meeting link to a LEO unit
- Record a Zoom meeting
- Use the Zoom Chat function
- Secure a meeting to prevent Zoombombing
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| Student motivation and rubrics |
This session will focus on using rubrics and grading forms to motivate the student’s ownership and self-initiation to progress their learning. |
- Identify how rubrics impact student learning and motivation.
- Identify different types of rubrics.
- Distinguish the difference between rubrics and grading forms.
- Set up and use rubrics or grading forms to mark student assignments.
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Tips and tricks in Gradebook management (recording 47min)
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This session targets LICs and will focus on how to set up and manage the Gradebook in a LEO unit. These tips will include streamlining grading and organization of the Gradebook and assisting students to find their grades quickly. |
- Identify the key features of the Gradebook
- Use Categories to organise your unit Gradebook
- Hide and show grades
- Filter for groups and individual students
- Download a copy of the Gradebook
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| Tips for effective unit design (recording 39min) |
This session will focus on how to improve consistency in navigation and enhance the student experience in LEO units. |
- Identify the purpose and benefits of consistent navigation
- Present your unit content in an organised and scaffolded way to avoid cognitive overload for your students
- Develop prompts and other scaffolds to support successful student learning
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