In 2020 Jabed Chowdhury was awarded a small L&T grant from the College of SHE. His project, Capture the Flag, uses gamification to teach cybersecurity students to find security holes (flags) in a vulnerable machine. The student/team with the highest number of flags wins.
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Katherine Seaton, formerly from Maths & Stats and now an adjunct at La Trobe, has developed a new TEQSA resource to support the fight against contract cheating, aimed particularly at symbol and logic-based disciplines such as Mathematics. The guide includes a checklist for investigators.
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In this 9 minute video Caroline Taylor and Jarrod Church (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Microbiology) describe how they used H5P branching scenarios to put together online practicals for their second year physiology students. They also talk about what they learned from the process.
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Matt Felicetti (Engineering) describes how he has created an entire thesis marking workflow using SRES, including thesis submission, blind marking by two reviewers, moderation by the supervisor, provision of feedback to students, and resubmission. SRES is currently being piloted in the College of SHE.
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Find out how Andrew Buldt (Podiatry) and Dilhani Premaratna (Animal, Plant & Soil Sciences) have been improving the quality and efficiency of marking and feedback in their subjects using SRES (Student Relationship Engagement System), which is currently being piloted in the College of SHE.
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Education Services have put together a self-paced, ten-minute video resource designed to give you practical tips and tricks around effective feedback practice. It addresses the practical needs of teaching staff and is informed by current research in feedback for learning and feedback literacy skills.
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Toen Castle (Department of Mathematics and Statistics) describes some new, innovative approaches to their exam structure to address academic misconduct. This includes reverse engineering maths questions and students using video to record the reasoning behind their answers.
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Good news! All the workshops held during Subject Week were recorded and are now available on the intranet. We have also provided a link to the PowerPoint presentations where possible. A big thank you to all our fantastic presenters who were willing to share their ideas and practice.
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Following on from a previous video on contract cheating, Rwth Stuckey (Department of Public Health) who is a member of the College Academic Misconduct Committee offers some advice around structuring exam questions and the use of LMS logs in detecting cheating.
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In this short 4 minute video Linda Ward (Department of Biochemistry and Genetics) talks about changing the format of a face-to-face invigilated exam for BIO5PRO (Protein Chemistry) to an open online exam using the LMS quiz function and automated marking. It resulted in many benefits for her, as well as her students.
