Whether you’re designing online activities for your face-to-face students or developing a fully online course, you not only need to think about WHAT you’re asking learners to do, but HOW you’re telling them to do it. The words and sentence structures you choose really do make a difference to the way that your students interact […]

What does it do? The Grades tool is used to track student participation and grades over time. You can also use the Grades tool to provide students with a summary of their overall Grade grades. This snapshot of the Standard View of the Grades tool points out some of the key features of the tool. Useful […]

What does it do? The Groups tool allows you to create and manage groups of students. You can then set up Release Conditions to release items in MyLO to students in a particular groups or groups. Useful terminology Groups are organised into Categories. A group must be assigned to a Category. By default, MyLO already […]

Each year, the University of Tasmania recognises excellence in teaching with Teaching Merit Certificates.  In early 2014,  11 TSBE staff were awarded Teaching Merit Certificates. Teaching @ TSBE is presenting a series of interviews with Certificate recipients. In this interview we asked Launceston-based Dr Gemma Lewis about teaching large classes of first year face-to-face and distance […]

Do you monitor or assess student participation in tutorials, workshops or online classes? Tracking participation in tutorials can be quite difficult and time-consuming, especially when multiple staff are involved. Using the MyLO Grades tool Dr Gemma Lewis coordinates a large first-year undergraduate unit with over 450 students. Tutorials are included in the unit, and a […]