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Navigate to your Canvas site and find ‘My Media‘ in the menu on the left side: Locate the ‘Add New‘ button in the top right section of the screen and select your preferred media upload from the drop down menu: To upload your own media, simply click on ‘Media Upload‘...
Take-home exams are offered as an alternative to in person on campus exams. Here are some key principles and considerations to keep in mind when designing your take-home exams. Principles An assessment task without invigilation Released and submitted via Canvas run by Subject Coordinator Identity verification is provided through...
The following resource is for timed LMS and AI-invigilated exams. To get started, it’s recommended that you set up your exam questions in question banks first. Once set up, it is simple to populate a Canvas quiz using the questions created. If you have already created a quiz or...
Talk to text A simple way to adapt a lecture for online delivery is to write it down. In this example, a guest lecturer has annotated their slides, providing a detailed yet engaging commentary that guides students through the learning materials. While being precise and thoroughly referenced, the text is relatively informal in style to help students feel directly addressed....
Navigate to your Canvas site, find and select ‘My Media’. Locate and select the pencil icon on the top right section of the screen. This will take you into video’s settings page where you will be able to manage and edit the video’s setting starting with ‘Details’: In the ‘Details’ tab, you...
For a number of years, UTS has been moving towards a greater focus on assessment that promotes learning which we call Assessment for Learning. This includes a focus on authentic assessment, using meaningful practice-oriented tasks that enable students to apply what they know rather than just memorise. Authentic assessment...
Three approaches to online exams are available as an alternative to in-person exams. AI invigilated exam ProcturU is a cloud based service employed by UTS to prevent cheating in online exams and ensure the identity of the person undertaking the exam. Used in conjunction with quiz-based exams only, this...
It turns out many of the techniques used to structure a lecture in a theatre are also effective in the video format. The technique we want to focus on in this resource is how to break an hour-long lecture into connected topics or themes. You probably already ‘chunk’ your...
Here are five different sorts of cues you can use to frame the video students are about to watch. Keep in mind these should be brief – you don’t want to replicate the entire content of the video itself! Set expectations Help students understand what they are about to...
To complete the Grades process, you need to make sure you’ve set up assignments correctly at the start of the session and run through a few checks at the end before grades are approved and transferred. The Gradebook Total column in Canvas automatically calculates the combined total of student...
