Teaching Online at UTAS

It can be useful to gather information about student access to your unit’s MyLO site, especially if you are using MyLO access as a Student Engagement Activity. Here’s how to quickly and easily gather data about student access to your MyLO site. Step 1 Go to your MyLO unit’s Home screen (the first page you see […]

If you need to keep track of student participation in MyLO Discussion Topics, using the Reports tool will allow you to get a quick overview of who has, or hasn’t, made a contribution. Step 1 Navigate to your MyLO unit’s Home page (this is the first page you see when you access the unit). You should see a Reports widget […]

Here are some Student Engagement Activities that you could consider incorporating into your unit. Students successfully complete the College of Arts and Law’s Academic Integrity Module (AIM) with a score of 90% or more. The AIM Academic Integrity Module is made available to first year students. You will still need to record student engagement data […]

First year students enrolled in College of Arts and Law (CoAL) units are able to access the Academic Integrity Module, a MyLO site. If students successfully complete the AIM Test included at the end of the Module (requires a test result of 90% or more), then they will meet the associated learning objective. This post […]

MyLO Quizzes can be very useful for tracking student engagement. They can also be very convenient for you: a Quiz can automatically generate a score and send this score to a connected Student Engagement Activity Grade Item in the Grades tool. Your local support team may already have some Quizzes, like practice Quizzes or academic integrity Quizzes, ready to go. These […]

To be effective learning and assessment tools, multiple choice questions must be well-considered and written. These resources provide very useful tips, approaches and examples to help you write multiple choice questions: Writing Good Multiple Choice Test Questions, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University (opens in new window) Multiple Choice Questions – Some key principles, Center for Teaching […]

You may need to add students to a particular Group in your unit’s MyLO site. Here’s how. Do not manually add students to the Campus Groups, Mode Groups or Unit Groups Categories. These are system generated Groups and adding students manually may cause issues in future. Step 1: Select the Groups tool from the MyLO toolbar, then select a Group Category (the ‘container’ of the […]

When you create Group Categories in MyLO, you need to set a Group Prefix, for example, ‘School Group’. When MyLO creates the Groups in the new Category, each Group is named using the Group Prefix followed by a number, for example ‘School Group 1′, ‘School Group 2‘ and so on. Once the Groups have been created, you can edit the names to make […]

First year students studying with the College of Arts and Law are all given access to the Academic Integrity Module, known as AIM. This module (housed in its own MyLO site) is intended to help students develop the skills they need to create academic work without infringing the University’s Academic Misconduct rules. Students are encouraged to […]

This post assumes that you already have two Grade Items set up in the MyLO Grades tool to record Student Engagement Activity results. If you do not have these Grade Items set up, you should contact your local support team. General information about Student Engagement Activity reporting requirements in available here. We recommend having your […]