Prepare for the new academic year – Support your students’ academic and technical skills

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We’ve got a series of posts to help you prepare for the new academic year on Moodle. This is our last post and will cover the support available to your students to use digital technologies and academic skills at City St George’s. In an earlier post, we looked at Learning With Moodle, which introduces students…Continue Reading Prepare for the new academic year – Support your students’ academic and technical skills

Being a Teams-player will boost your employability!

By now you would have heard about Microsoft Teams at least once, whether it’s for a module’s collaboration, an online lecture or presenting your work in a 1:1 meeting. Teams is a tool that rarely goes unused when in university and especially, when in the workplace. The tool makes working and studying a collaborative, engaging…Continue Reading Being a Teams-player will boost your employability!

Prepare for the new academic year – view student lists on your module

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We’ve got a series of posts to help you prepare for the new academic year on Moodle. This is our (lucky) thirteenth post and looks at how you can filter the Participants list on Moodle to view a list of students on your module and how to view them on the photo grid. Filter the…Continue Reading Prepare for the new academic year – view student lists on your module

Skills-based assessments with subjective marking criteria – A case study from City Law School

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How to deal with subjective assessment criteria The problem: This is a challenge many of us face when marking assessments where we are required to determine if a student’s work is “effective” or their delivery demonstrates the skills of a “good advocate” and ultimately: competent. On the professional programmes in The City Law School, students…Continue Reading Skills-based assessments with subjective marking criteria – A case study from City Law School

Prepare for the new academic year – Support your students to use Moodle

We’ve got a series of posts to help you prepare for the new academic year on Moodle. This is our twelfth post and will cover the support available to your students to use Moodle. Learning With Moodle Module The Learning with Moodle module is available to all students and introduces them to all the major…Continue Reading Prepare for the new academic year – Support your students to use Moodle

A visualiser is for active teaching and learning.

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“You see, Baldrick, this pencil is not just for writing. It’s for pointing out stupidity, stirring tea, and, if the situation calls for it, making tiny holes in annoying people’s portraits.”  Blackadder BBC. To paraphrase Blackadder: a visualiser is not just for projecting bits of paper. It’s for scaffolding learning, thinking aloud, and, if the…Continue Reading A visualiser is for active teaching and learning.

Prepare for the new academic year – Programme administrator roles

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We’ve got a series of posts to help you prepare for the new academic year on Moodle. This is our eleventh post and looks at the two different programme administrator roles available to support staff on Moodle. Programme administrator roles The introduction of Moodle 4 in July 2023 meant some changes to the programme admininistrator…Continue Reading Prepare for the new academic year – Programme administrator roles

Co-pilots & Hybrid Teaching

Are you considering hybrid teaching at City? Or are you currently teaching on a course that uses City’s hybrid technology (ISLA)  [Inclusive Synchronous Learning Activities]? If either of these are the case then you might be aware of City’s Co-pilots and what they can offer you, your students and your course in general. To put…Continue Reading Co-pilots & Hybrid Teaching

New ALT Special Interest Group for Digital Accessibility – call for officers!

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We are excited to announce the formation of a new Special Interest Group (SIG) for Digital Accessibility under the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). This initiative has been proposed by Sandra Partington and Sylwia Frankowska-Takhari from our Digital Accessibility team at LEaD, in collaboration with the Learning Technologies team at The University of Nottingham. Together, we…Continue Reading New ALT Special Interest Group for Digital Accessibility – call for officers!

Prepare for the new academic year – Reading Lists Online and Moodle

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We’ve got a series of posts to help you prepare for the new academic year on Moodle. This is our tenth post and will cover Reading List Online. Reading Lists Online links in Moodle This summer, the Moodle 4 refresh has changed the way that links to Reading Lists Online display in module dashboards. There…Continue Reading Prepare for the new academic year – Reading Lists Online and Moodle