Learning design and assessment
Learning design and assessment
Preparing for teaching
Fundamental advice on learning, teaching and assessment with technology.
- Explore digital exam options and guides.
- The University’s framework for educational excellence identifies seven critical dimensions that contribute to an excellent educational experience.
- Read the CHSE resources on teaching, learning and assessment.
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Navigating GenAI: Policy, practice and integrity in teaching and learning
This resource helps teaching staff navigate the use of generative AI in the University of Melbourne context.
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Guide for educators
Resources, services and support available for teaching and learning, including the best referral points for students in need of assistance. The guide is a must-have for all teaching and student-facing staff.
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Downloadable LMS page templates
Templates available for you to directly add into your Canvas LMS subject. Use these as a quick way to get started building your subject.
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Framework for building or improving an LMS site - technology enhanced learning (TEL) framework
The technology enhanced learning (TEL) framework is a starting point for thinking about course/subject redesign or approaches in developing a new subject.
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LMS subject design
Looking to enhance the design of your LMS subject? These examples and resources will show you what’s possible.
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Digital whiteboard and collaboration tool comparison guide
This guide is intended to help you identify the right digital whiteboard platform for your teaching and learning, or professional use scenarios.
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Artificial intelligence in teaching, learning and assessment
Resources and guidance on using AI tools in teaching, learning and assessment.
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Accessibility in teaching, learning and assessment
Considering accessibility needs of students in teaching, learning and assessment makes a better learning experience for all students.
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Media in teaching and learning
By integrating media into your subject you can demonstrate complex skills, introduce new topics, and assist student comprehension, while providing flexible learning options that meet the needs of diverse learners.
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Readings Online in teaching and learning
Readings Online enables staff to add, organise and control their subject readings and ensures copyright compliance in their subjects.
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Copyright in teaching
The following resources provide staff with advice and requirements regarding copyright for readings and other types of materials delivered in the LMS.
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Tailored support for Faculty teaching and learning initiatives
We partner with faculties to co-design initiatives and programs of work that support the faculties’ strategic aims in uplifting teaching, learning and assessment practice, in line with the Advancing Students and Education strategy.
Assessment and feedback
Advice on how to achieve assessment goals from a variety of assessment approaches.
- When creating and communicating assessments please review the University's assessment guidelines and assessment and results policy
- Explore digital exam options and guides.
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Assessment literacy
Assessment literacy is a student’s ability to understand assessment guidelines and judge the quality of their own work. It is a core attribute of an independent and self-regulated learner.
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Assessment rubrics
An assessment rubric is a criteria-based marking tool. Rubrics give students clarity on what is expected and build students’ self-efficacy.
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Authentic assessment
Authentic assessment gives students a chance to apply their theoretical knowledge in real-life situations.
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ePortfolios
ePortfolios offer students a space to create and curate evidence and artefacts. Purposeful reflection associated with portfolio creation engages students in metacognition.
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Feedback loops
Feedback loops refer to the ongoing circular relationship in which a student produces an artefact or performs a task, teaching staff provides constructive feedback and the student then applies this input in an effort to improve their performance and skills.
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Formative assessment
Formative assessment is an integral part of student-centred teaching and learning. It promotes learning and provides opportunities for formative feedback.
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Inclusive assessment
Designing and implementing assessments inclusively can enable students to fully participate in the assessment process and have an equal opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.
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Peer review
Student peer review creates opportunities for social learning and rich feedback. This learning strategy also supports students in developing evaluative judgment.
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Reflective practice
Reflective practice is a learning strategy that promotes metacognition and develops students’ capacity for self-regulation.
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Self-assessment
Self-assessment is a formative assessment approach, which moves the responsibility for learning from the educator to the student.
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Social annotation
Incorporating social annotation in your teaching is a great way to facilitate collaborative learning and assess comprehension.
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Team-based projects
Team-based projects are continuous group assessment tasks that encourage students to work collaboratively towards a common goal and cultivate work-related skills.
Digital exams
We have moved the digital exams content to the LMS support website.
Building cohorts, creating community
Advice on how to design activities in your teaching that foster cohort building and create community.
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Cohort building through active learning in lectures
We outline principles and strategies for active learning in lectures.
- Active learning
- Cohort building
- Cohort development
- Collaboration
- Discussions
- Engagement
- Lectures
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Introduction, warm-up and ice-breaker activities
Introduction, warm-up and ice-breaker activities are individual, pair or group activities that perform a number of diverse functions, typically at the beginning of a lesson.
- cohort development
- collaboration
- engagement
- problem solving
- roleplay
- reflection
- scenario based
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Pair and groupwork activities
Pair and groupwork activities comprise a broad and substantial range of learning activities.
- Build community
- Cohort development
- Collaboration
- Engagement
- Groupwork
- Pair
- Peer review
- Teamwork
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Peer review activities
Peer review activities are an integral part of academic endeavour. Benefits of students engaging in peer review activities include improved assessment literacy, critical thinking and professional practice.
- Build community
- Cohort development
- Collaboration
- Engagement
- Groupwork
- Peer review
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Student-led activities
Student-led learning (or peer-assisted learning) is when students facilitate their own learning by guiding other students in (mostly) group activities to discuss materials and solve problems.
- feedback
- learner led activities
- peer assisted learning
- student led learning
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Student presentations
In these activities, individual students or groups present in front of their peers for a set period of time.
- Build community
- Cohort development
- Constructivism
- Collaboration
- Engagement
- Feedback
- Groupwork
- Presentations
- Team work
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Reflection and consolidation activities
Reflection is an important activity for students to be able to make sense of and grow from a learning experience.
- cohort building
- consolidation
- constructivism
- reflection
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Whole class discussions
Class discussions are an effective way to encourage informal social interactions, within and between online and face-to-face cohorts. They develop a sense of learning community and class cohesion.
- Active learning
- Build community
- Cohort building
- Cohort development
- Collaboration
- Discussions
- Engagement
- Problem solving
- Reflection
- Roleplay
- Scenario based
Designing for flexible learning
Flexible learning means giving students choices about how, when, and where they learn. This could involve offering some or all of the learning online, providing in-person options with flexible schedules, or a combination of both online and in-person learning. The following advice explains how to incorporate flexible learning into your teaching methods.
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Advice for online and flexible learning
Advice on enhancing the quality of teaching based on experiences from past semesters.
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Converting a lecture to online activities and resources
Review the options you have for making online versions of your lectures.
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Implementing online learning quality
Here are some straightforward options to implement or improve online learning quality in your subject.
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Seven ways to improve students’ online learning experiences in your subject
Seven areas you can, relatively easily and simply, increase the participation and engagement of students in your online subject.
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Seven practices to avoid in online teaching and learning
What to avoid in order to create a successful online teaching environment.