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28th April 2020 |
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I hope that this LTA newsletter finds you and your families well
during the current period of COVID-19 lockdown |
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Online examination marking At the
end of last month, I circulated a set of tips to the Faculty’s Programme and
Subject Leaders, based on suggestions from programmes and the Teaching and
Learning Academy. These mainly related to exam preparation but there are a
couple of tips relating to online exam marking that merit reinforcement: |
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For
each Canvas Grades column being used to store exam marks, click ⋮ in the header and ensure that the grade posting policy is manual so
that marks remain hidden. |
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If
more than one marker is accessing the same set of exam papers in Canvas
Speedgrader, do not use rubrics to record marks for this reason.
Instead, markers can annotate scripts with their marks: Testing indicates that
this is stable even when two tutors are coincidentally marking the same
document simultaneously. |
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Online
teaching and assessment The
Teaching and Learning Academy is planning a series of staff training events given
the potential for increased online learning activity in Semester 1 2020/21.
Details are to be confirmed but, in the interim, I was made aware today of
the following online training this week. All trainings will take place using Microsoft
Teams. |
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Canvas Assignments and Rubrics,
Wednesday 29th April 13:30 – 14:30 |
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Panopto: use of video within teaching
and learning, Thursday 30th April 14:00 – 15:00 |
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Canvas Assignments and Rubrics,
Friday 1st May, 11:00 – 12:00 |
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Virtual
laboratories There is a possibility that normal laboratory work
will be difficult during the academic year 2020/21. Colleagues may be aware
of virtual laboratory resources, general science or discipline-specific, and
I would be grateful if details could be sent to me p.denton@ljmu.acu.uk. These will be
collated and added to a new virtual
laboratories section of the LTA website. |
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Academic Calendar 2020/21 This has been published for 2020/21
and there are two principal changes from the pre-COVID 2019/20 calendar. |
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Teaching
in Levels 3 and 4 commences Thursday Week Zero. |
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Directed
Study Weeks have been replaced by Curriculum Enhancement Weeks. The starting
position of the Faculty is that no teaching is scheduled in these weeks. It
is perfectly permissible to schedule teaching during these weeks, indeed it
is encouraged as it may relieve timetabling pressures. Our starting position
is chosen so that it obliges programmes to make appropriate checks when
teaching is scheduled. Faculty guidance
is here. |
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Webinar recording: Students´ sense of self: Identity and
belonging in HE, Rebecca Barnes, University of Sheffield (thanks to
Virendra Mistry). This session was part of Share your Research, a programme
of Online Webinars hosted by the Society for Research in Higher Education. https://srhe.adobeconnect.com/pswj79fyfn3y
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If you are aware of any teaching software that would have
cross-School interest than please let me know so that we can explore a bid to
the Library Management Fund. P.denton@ljmu.ac.uk
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Phil Denton, Faculty of Science Associate Dean (Education) |
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