Many design-based STEM courses incorporate a practical project which requires students to design, build and test a product/artefact for the course assessment. Often, the assessment culminates in a live competition event which brings students together with staff to test and
Assessment
Transforming Assessment Webinars
1) NEW event!: Online seminar 6 July 2020: “Paradigm Shift for Assessment” An afternoon starting at Hong Kong time 2:30pm (06:30am universal time, 7:30am UK Summer, 4:30pm Eastern Australia). Hosted by the Academic Study Institute, a joint project of The
Deletion of a Question-bank question with an error from a quiz
Discovering an error in a quiz question after being completed by students gets even more complex if the question is originally from a question bank. Deleting the question with the error from a quiz will throw out the gradebook for
Tips and tricks to deter plagiarism
Now we have a break and the time to reflect on the last semester and plan for the next, it’s a good time to think about assessment design. This semester we had little time to plan for good online assessment
TEQSA advice; online assessment, open book exams, rubrics and more
TEQSA have recently released a series of advice sheets to assist in the move to online learning and assessment; there is some timely advice on many subjects. Explore them all, or choose from the links below. Assessment considerations in moving
Supporting Academic Integrity Guideline
As many more assessments are being conducted online the scope for contract cheating has increased. This document is intended to be a quick and practical guide to contract cheating, what you can do to mitigate against it, and what to
Help! I need to upload a picture as a PDF from my phone
As we move to file upload questions in quizzes, and take home assessments increasingly students are solving problems on a physical piece of paper, and then taking a photo to upload it to Canvas. If a student uploads and image using the canvas app, not all of the
Creds Update 12 May, 2020
RMIT policy for Facilitated Creds in assessments Facilitated Creds now ask students to agree to an assessment declaration prior to submitting their final submission to set expectations for academic integrity. Special consideration updates: A reattempt for auto-marked Creds entitle students
Making the time for open book exams
On the weekend, I read Chris Deneen’s paper “Assessment considerations in moving from closed-book to open-book exams” and it got me reflecting about the time a student needs to complete one. Chris is saying many of the things we are
