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Get ready for Autumn 2020
In the lead-up to the Autumn 2020 teaching session, we’ve put together a program of workshops to help you with the process of setting up assessment tasks, marking and providing feedback in Canvas, UTSOnline (Blackboard), REVIEW and Turnitin.
Transformation: how it’s making a difference
This year, we embarked on one of our biggest learning and teaching programs at UTS with the LX Transformation. Our move to Canvas, starting with postgraduate courses, is an opportunity to match our digital environment to the campus experience, as well as an opportunity to transform the student experience...
Words of wisdom from our Futures contributors
With a wide-ranging learning and teaching community at UTS, we’re lucky at Futures to work with experienced and knowledgable practitioners who generously share their ideas with us and the wider community through blog posts. 2019 was another year of excellent content, and we’re proud to share some of our...
Lessons from a U:PASS leader, one year in
Abbey Warren is a second year Bachelor of Biotechnology and Bachelor of Business student who leads in Cell Biology and Genetics as a U:PASS leader. U:PASS Leaders are high achieving students who facilitate study classes in a range of first and second year subjects. I’ve never been as nervous...
Finding learning technology support at UTS
Error? Arghhh!!! It can be frustrating when you’re having problems with your online teaching materials. Perhaps you accidentally changed some settings? Or maybe you’re just finding it a challenge to keep up-to-date with the learning technologies used at UTS like Blackboard, Review or SPARKPlus? Luckily there’s no need to...
A snapshot of the LX Transformation: Gabriela Quintana Vigiola
As the year draws to a close for UTS with the conclusion of Spring session, the LX Transformation process is still in full swing. Postgraduate course teams have been brought together to plan, map and find opportunities to improve the student experience across their course through the Whole of...
Ensuring assessment integrity: Advice from Joseph Yeo
What can be done to reduce academic dishonesty? How can assessments be structured to scaffold students’ learning and to maintain assessment integrity? Joseph Yeo from the Academic Language and Learning team gives some recommendations.
Meet the new UTS Video Community of Practice: a highlight reel
On November 21st 2019, the LX.lab Media Team held a meet-up to launch the new UTS video community of practice. Read - or view! - the highlights from the event, and learn how you can get involved.
Advice from academics going through the LXT Whole of Course process
One of the great things about the UTS Teaching and Learning Forum is hearing from a wide range of people about how they are approaching their teaching and planning across different faculties. At the session A conversation with the “transformed”: stories from academics going through subject transformation we were...
‘A good ice-breaker’: Benefits of the IF-AT card with Eve Spence
A few weeks ago I ran a session on collaborative learning techniques as part of the Casual Academic Forum in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. At the event I was chatting with Eve Spence; another IF-AT user here at UTS. Eve attended my active and collaborative learning...
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