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WS2 Designing Online Assessment

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Facilitator: Daniela Gachago, Centre for Innovative Educational Technology

Date, time and venue:

  • 16th ofFebruary, 13.30-15.30,  e-Learning, Cape Town Campus  (repeat)

Workshop description:

Online assessment or e-Assessment is a broad and rapidly growing field, with a strong theoretical and empirical base. However, you don’t have to be an assessment expert to employ sound practices to guide your teaching. In this seminar we will introduce some basic concepts you need to know to become more systematic in your assessment planning and implementation, such as Bloom’s Taxonomy, constructive alignment and the difference between formative and summative assessment. We will showcase some innovative examples of lecturers at CPUT who use online and blended forms of assessment to address a variety of challenges, such as large student numbers and an increase need for flexible ways of assessing students.

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WS1 Designing a learning module on Blackboard (hands-on)

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Facilitators: Jody Boltney and Antoinette Van Deventer, Centre for Innovative Educational Technology

Date, time and venue:

  • 2nd of February, 13.30-15.30, Lab 303IT Centre, Bellville Campus
  • 13th of March, 13.30-15.30,  e-Learning Centre, Cape Town Campus  (repeat)

Workshop description:

In this workshop we will focus on two main areas: proper file management within your Blackboard Subject and the Designing of a Learning Module. The Files area provides a central file storage area within a Blackboard Subject. Lecturers can link to any of these items when creating content. The Learning Module enables a student to follow a structured/predetermined path for progressing through content. It may contain content files, assessments, assignments, images, video files, audio files, URL’s, Discussion Topics etc. All the content, activities etc. needed to complete a chapter or a section in a course can so be structured in one, central place.

 To book your place please use our online booking system.

 

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra

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Facilitators: Antoinette Van Deventer and Dr Daniela Gachago, Centre for Innovative Educational Technology

Date and time: 29th of September 2016, 13.30-15.30

Location: Online or Centre for eLearning, training venue, Cape Town campus

Seminar description

Tired of travelling between campuses for meetings? Supporting students who are geographically distributed? Blackboard Collaborate is a realtime video conferencing tool, that lets you communicate with dispersed participants, present and share files and applications and use a virtual whiteboard to interact. Collaborate with the Ultra experience opens right in your browser (no login to Blackboard needed). You can invite external guests as well and record your session for future reference.

This session will introduce the tool, discuss tips and trick of facilitating online meetings and open up a discussion for potential uses of Blackboard collaborate at CPUT.

To book your place please use our online booking system.

Learning Analytics in Higher Education: matters of economy, pedagogy, and ethics

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Facilitators: Dr Izak van Zyl and Antoinette Van Deventer, Centre for Innovative Educational Technology

Date and time: 22nd of September 2o16, 13.30-15.30

Location: Centre for eLearning, training venue, Cape Town campus

Seminar description

There has been a spate of learning analytics interventions in global higher education. This is coupled with the rise and significance of big data in the wider economic context, but also in tertiary environments. The analysis of big (complex) data offers quantitative, statistical and algorithmic means to aid decision making in organisations, for whichever purposes. Broadly, analytics aims to identify meaningful or otherwise useful patterns, ideas or solutions that can support the way an organisation performs its core function(s). In this seminar, Izak will provide a critical overview of the notion and practice of Learning Analytics and what it may offer in a constrained higher education environment, with a particular focus on what it can reveal about your learners.

Furthermore Antoinette will offer a short demonstration of the Retention Centre on Blackboard, which offers lecturers an easy way of discovering at-risk students. The four main rules use for identification pertain to grades, online attendance, levels of activities and missed deadlines. Blackboard also provides a simple way of communicating with these students.

To book your place please use our online booking system.

Mastering Online Assignments

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Facilitators: Antoinette Deventer and Jody Boltney

Dates and location:

  • 18th of August, 13.30-15.30, e-Learning Centre, Cape Town campus
  • 25th of August, 13.30-15.30, lab 303, IT center, Bellville campus (repeat)

Workshop description:

In this workshop we will focus on 2 main areas on our LMS Blackboard: Online Assignments and the Plagiarism prevention tool, Safe Assign.

We will first look at the creation and submission of online assignments, as well as how you as the lecturer will do the marking of the assignments online, by making use of Blackboard’s inline marking tools (commenting tools) and the interactive rubric (grading form).

Secondly we will be focusing on the SafeAssign tool which is built into the Online Assignment Tool. SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service that allows you to protect the originality of work and ensure a fair playing ground for all of your students. SafeAssign prevents plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers within your existing teaching and learning environment. SafeAssign can also further deter plagiarism by creating opportunities to educate students on proper attribution and citations while properly leveraging the wealth of information at their disposal.

Please book your space using our online booking system.

Designing alternative assessment strategies in times of disruption

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Facilitators: Nicola Pietersen, Retail Business Management, CPUT

Date and time and location:

  • 19th of May 2016, 13.30-15.30 (IT Centre, Bellville campus)
  • 26th of May 2016, 13.30-15.30 (Centre for e-Learning, Cape town campus) – repeat

Seminar description

The challenge in ENL103S as a first year level subject, that is part of the Retail Business Management (RBM) programme, is to develop teaching and learning strategies that are well aligned with the required specific outcomes of the subject area and the Graduate Attributes (GA) of both the Retail Department and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT).

This requires constant alignment of knowledge, skills and GA’s into assessment strategies, a challenge that all academics wrestle with.  The transference of knowledge, and its assessment within the sphere of skills training, its respective GA’s and the respective assessment instruments which would deem our Retail students competent and ready for the functional employment within the Retail Industry, is a highly contested space that many external factors are now impacting upon. In this seminar Nicola will introduce some innovative assessment strategies  that she developed to meet this challenge. Furthermore she will reflect on a range of ‘Plan Bs’ – alternative assessment strategies – she devised to respond to the disruptions faced in the context of the #FMF movement last year.

To book your place please use our online booking system.

Designing a learning module on Blackboard (hands-on)

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Facilitators: Jody Boltney and Antoinette Van Deventer, Centre for e-Learning/ETU

Date, time and venue:

  • 21st of  April, 13.30-15.30, IT Centre, Bellville Campus
  • 28th of April, 13.30-15.30,  e-Learning, Cape Town Campus  (repeat)

Workshop description:

In this workshop we will focus on two main areas: proper file management within your Blackboard Subject and the Designing of a Learning Module. The Files area provides a central file storage area within a Blackboard Subject. Lecturers can then link to any of these items when creating content.

The Learning Module enables a student to follow a structured/predetermined path for progressing through content. It may contain content files, assessments, assignments, images, video files, audio files, URL’s, Discussion Topics etc. All the content, activities etc. needed to complete a Chapter will be structured in one, central place.

To book your place please use our online booking system