Assessing student participation in tutorials
Are you looking for a way to track student engagement and participation in tutorials? Maybe you just want to know whether the ‘quieter’ students understand the unit content? Smith (1992), cited in Jacques and Salmon (2007) provides one possible solution. Students were told to provide a brief note (1 – 2 sentences) of something useful […]
Encouraging tutorial attendance: A different approach
In their book, Learning in Groups: A handbook for face-to-face and online environments, Jacques and Salmon (2007) recount the story of a British business lecturer who faced decreasing attendance at weekly seminars. Seminar participation was not assessable or compulsory, but the lecturer felt that attendance was of benefit to his students.. The lecturer sent out […]
Student Resource: How to locate Grades and feedback associated with an assignment submission
This Blog Entry explains how students can find their grade, feedback, Rubric feedback and Grademark feedback via the Assignment tool. Please feel free to add the link to your MyLO site, or print it and hand it out to students, if you feel it would be helpful.
Create a Grade Item
Would you like to be able to record student grades for exams, tutorial presentations, attendance or participation? These sorts of tasks can be graded using a Grade Item in the MyLO Grades tool. These instructions explain how to create a Grade Item in your unit.
Student Resource: How to configure Google Scholar to search for journal articles, then access the articles through the UTAS Library
Google Scholar (www.scholar.google.com.au) is a very useful tool you can use to find journal articles. However, if you use Scholar to search for articles while off-campus, you may be prompted to pay for access the full text version of the article. Fortunately, you can configure Google Scholar to search for an article in a UTAS […]
Student Resource: Include images in discussion posts
This resource [PDF] explains how to include an image (from a computer or the web), or embed a YouTube video in a discussion post. This can be a very useful skill to teach students when you want them to share ideas and viewpoints that they have found on the web, in articles or in the […]
Student Resource: How to attach a document to a discussion post
This resource [PDF] explains how to attach a document, like a PDF or a Word file, to a post in a discussion thread. This is a very useful document to provide to students when you want them to share resources or perhaps post some work for feedback from other students. Please feel free to upload […]
How to set up your MyLO News Notifications
To set up notifications of new announcements in your unit follow the steps below. 1. Locate your profile icon at the top-right of the page and click on it. 2. A small menu should show, click ‘Notifications’. 3. From the page that loads you can check the email address that notifications will be sent to. You can choose […]
How do I know whether a student has completed an online activity?
The Completion Summary option appears at the bottom of most content items in MyLO. It is a good, quick tool for checking who has and hasn’t completed a task in your MyLO unit. In this video, Tam Lynch shows you how to access and use the Completion Summary. [iframe src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/5d2-dWMgQwc?rel=0″ width=”420″ height=”315″] Limitations of the Completion […]
Providing extensions to students
From time to time you may need to provide students with extensions due to illness, technical issues or personal issues. If a student needs an extension on an online assessment task, you can use the Special Access feature to provide different types of extensions to different students. This video from Tam Lynch demonstrates how to […]