Facilitators: Ass. Prof. Eunice Ivala, Sonwabo Jongile, CIET, and Bronwyn Swart, DISE, CPUT
Date and location:
- 11th of April 2019, 13.00-15.30, Bellville campus
Workshop description
Description of Seminar
Recently there has been a significant increase of interest in online assessment at CPUT as a response to large student numbers and in general to provide more flexibility to students. However, lecturers who have ventured into online assessment soon realise that it is not simple to design online assessments that are meaningful and test students on the appropriate cognitive levels. This seminars will offer you an opportunity to engage with lecturers and staff developers’ experiences on how to best design for and implement online assessments. We will address questions such as:
- ‘Doing assessment’ online – is it a case of transferring face-to-face assessment to an online environment?
- The affordances and challenges of online assessment – a continuum from formative to summative assessment?
- Online assessment practices – what is the purpose? what formats are there? how do I grade online exams? how do I give feedback?
- Academic integrity: How do you deal with issues of academic integrity when students write exams off campus? What options are there to create safe and authentic contexts for online exams on and off campus, such as the Respondus Lockdown browser or the Respondus Monitor?
Associate Professor Eunice Ivala will be presenting on the pedagogical approaches to online assessment practices. Bronwyn Swartz and her colleagues will then share her insight and practical experience on designing and deploying assessments on Blackboard in a numbers based subject, but also to assess research, and in more theoretical or even practical courses.
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