Designing and Building your Course in Ulwazi

This introductory webinar aims to give you the confidence to start designing and building your courses in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Brief Overview of the Dashboard
• Navigating your course space
• Adding content to your course
• Uploading and managing your files
• Setting up your homepage

Presenters: Instructional Designers from the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 8 February 2021 | Time: 13:30 – 15:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Designing and Building your Course in Ulwazi

This introductory webinar aims to give you the confidence to start designing and building your courses in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Brief Overview of the Dashboard
• Navigating your course space
• Adding content to your course
• Uploading and managing your files
• Setting up your homepage

Presenters: Instructional Designers from the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 9 February 2021 | Time: 08:30 – 10:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Designing and Building your Course in Ulwazi

This introductory webinar aims to give you the confidence to start designing and building your courses in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Brief Overview of the Dashboard
• Navigating your course space
• Adding content to your course
• Uploading and managing your files
• Setting up your homepage

Presenters: Instructional Designers from the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 10 February 2021 | Time: 08:30 – 10:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Designing and Building your Course in Ulwazi

This introductory webinar aims to give you the confidence to start designing and building your courses in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Brief Overview of the Dashboard
• Navigating your course space
• Adding content to your course
• Uploading and managing your files
• Setting up your homepage

Presenters: Instructional Designers from the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 10 February 2021 | Time: 13:30 – 15:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Designing and Building your Course in Ulwazi

This introductory webinar aims to give you the confidence to start designing and building your courses in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Brief Overview of the Dashboard
• Navigating your course space
• Adding content to your course
• Uploading and managing your files
• Setting up your homepage

Presenters: Instructional Designers from the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 11 February 2021 | Time: 08:30 – 10:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Assessments in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to use the assessment tools in Ulwazi.

In this webinar you will learn how to use the following assessment tools in Ulwazi:

• Assignment: How to create an assignment for submission
• Rubric: How to add a Rubric to Assignment, graded Discussion and Quiz
• SpeedGrader: How to grade Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes using SpeedGrader
• Gradebook: How to set up Gradebook to publish assessment grades/ marks 

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 12 February 2021 | Time: 08:30 – 10:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Designing and Building your Course in Ulwazi

This introductory webinar aims to give you the confidence to start designing and building your courses in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Brief Overview of the Dashboard
• Navigating your course space
• Adding content to your course
• Uploading and managing your files
• Setting up your homepage

Presenters: Instructional Designers from the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 15 February 2021 | Time: 08:30 – 10:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Designing and Building your Course in Ulwazi

This introductory webinar aims to give you the confidence to start designing and building your courses in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Brief Overview of the Dashboard
• Navigating your course space
• Adding content to your course
• Uploading and managing your files
• Setting up your homepage

Presenters: Instructional Designers from the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 15 February 2021 | Time: 13:30 – 15:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Assessments in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to use the assessment tools in Ulwazi.

In this webinar you will learn how to use the following assessment tools in Ulwazi:

• Assignment: How to create an assignment for submission
• Rubric: How to add a Rubric to Assignment, graded Discussion and Quiz
• SpeedGrader: How to grade Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes using SpeedGrader
• Gradebook: How to set up Gradebook to publish assessment grades/ marks 

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 16 February 2021 | Time: 08:30 – 10:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Using Turnitin in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to set up Turnitin assignments in your Ulwazi course site.

Turnitin is a similarity detection tool that helps detect plagiarism. Topics covered in this webinar include:

• How to set up your Turnitin assignments
• How to submit your documentation to the Turnitin system,
• How to access and analyse a Turnitin report
• How to print your Turnitin report

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 17 February 2021 | Time: 08:30 – 10:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Assessments in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to use the assessment tools in Ulwazi.

In this webinar you will learn how to use the following assessment tools in Ulwazi:

• Assignment: How to create an assignment for submission
• Rubric: How to add a Rubric to Assignment, graded Discussion and Quiz
• SpeedGrader: How to grade Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes using SpeedGrader
• Gradebook: How to set up Gradebook to publish assessment grades/ marks 

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 17 February 2021 | Time: 13:30 – 15:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in Ulwazi

This webinar focuses on facilitating synchronous online learning interactions in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Accessing conferences
• Setting up online meeting spaces
• Facilitating synchronous learning in your course sites

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 18 February 2021 | Time: 08:30 – 10:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in Ulwazi

This webinar focuses on facilitating synchronous online learning interactions in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Accessing conferences
• Setting up online meeting spaces
• Facilitating synchronous learning in your course sites

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 18 February 2021 | Time: 13:30 – 15:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Using Turnitin in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to set up Turnitin assignments in your Ulwazi course site.

Turnitin is a similarity detection tool that helps detect plagiarism. Topics covered in this webinar include:

• How to set up your Turnitin assignments
• How to submit your documentation to the Turnitin system,
• How to access and analyse a Turnitin report
• How to print your Turnitin report

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 19 February 2021 | Time: 08:30 – 10:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Designing and Building your Course in Ulwazi

This introductory webinar aims to give you the confidence to start designing and building your courses in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Brief Overview of the Dashboard
• Navigating your course space
• Adding content to your course
• Uploading and managing your files
• Setting up your homepage

Presenters: Instructional Designers from the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 22 February 2021 | Time: 08:30 – 10:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Designing and Building your Course in Ulwazi

This introductory webinar aims to give you the confidence to start designing and building your courses in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Brief Overview of the Dashboard
• Navigating your course space
• Adding content to your course
• Uploading and managing your files
• Setting up your homepage

Presenters: Instructional Designers from the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 22 February 2021 | Time: 13:30 – 15:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Assessments in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to use the assessment tools in Ulwazi.

In this webinar you will learn how to use the following assessment tools in Ulwazi:

• Assignment: How to create an assignment for submission
• Rubric: How to add a Rubric to Assignment, graded Discussion and Quiz
• SpeedGrader: How to grade Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes using SpeedGrader
• Gradebook: How to set up Gradebook to publish assessment grades/ marks 

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 23 February 2021 | Time: 08:30 – 10:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Using Turnitin in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to set up Turnitin assignments in your Ulwazi course site.

Turnitin is a similarity detection tool that helps detect plagiarism. Topics covered in this webinar include:

• How to set up your Turnitin assignments
• How to submit your documentation to the Turnitin system,
• How to access and analyse a Turnitin report
• How to print your Turnitin report

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 24 February 2021 | Time: 08:30 – 10:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Assessments in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to use the assessment tools in Ulwazi.

In this webinar you will learn how to use the following assessment tools in Ulwazi:

• Assignment: How to create an assignment for submission
• Rubric: How to add a Rubric to Assignment, graded Discussion and Quiz
• SpeedGrader: How to grade Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes using SpeedGrader
• Gradebook: How to set up Gradebook to publish assessment grades/ marks 

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 24 February 2021 | Time: 13:30 – 15:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in Ulwazi

This webinar focuses on facilitating synchronous online learning interactions in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Accessing conferences
• Setting up online meeting spaces
• Facilitating synchronous learning in your course sites

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 25 February 2021 | Time: 08:30 – 10:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in Ulwazi

This webinar focuses on facilitating synchronous online learning interactions in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Accessing conferences
• Setting up online meeting spaces
• Facilitating synchronous learning in your course sites

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 25 February 2021 | Time: 13:30 – 15:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Using Turnitin in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to set up Turnitin assignments in your Ulwazi course site.

Turnitin is a similarity detection tool that helps detect plagiarism. Topics covered in this webinar include:

• How to set up your Turnitin assignments
• How to submit your documentation to the Turnitin system,
• How to access and analyse a Turnitin report
• How to print your Turnitin report

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 26 February 2021 | Time: 08:30 – 10:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Designing and Building your Course in Ulwazi

This introductory webinar aims to give you the confidence to start designing and building your courses in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Brief Overview of the Dashboard
• Navigating your course space
• Adding content to your course
• Uploading and managing your files
• Setting up your homepage

Presenters: Instructional Designers from the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 1 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 10:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Designing and Building your Course in Ulwazi

This introductory webinar aims to give you the confidence to start designing and building your courses in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Brief Overview of the Dashboard
• Navigating your course space
• Adding content to your course
• Uploading and managing your files
• Setting up your homepage

Presenters: Instructional Designers from the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 1 March 2021 | Time: 13:30 – 15:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Assessments in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to use the assessment tools in Ulwazi.

In this webinar you will learn how to use the following assessment tools in Ulwazi:

• Assignment: How to create an assignment for submission
• Rubric: How to add a Rubric to Assignment, graded Discussion and Quiz
• SpeedGrader: How to grade Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes using SpeedGrader
• Gradebook: How to set up Gradebook to publish assessment grades/ marks 

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 2 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 11:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Assessments in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to use the assessment tools in Ulwazi.

In this webinar you will learn how to use the following assessment tools in Ulwazi:

• Assignment: How to create an assignment for submission
• Rubric: How to add a Rubric to Assignment, graded Discussion and Quiz
• SpeedGrader: How to grade Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes using SpeedGrader
• Gradebook: How to set up Gradebook to publish assessment grades/ marks 

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 3 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 11:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in Ulwazi

This webinar focuses on facilitating synchronous online learning interactions in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Accessing conferences
• Setting up online meeting spaces
• Facilitating synchronous learning in your course sites

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 3 March 2021 | Time: 13:30 – 15:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

Add event to calendar

Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in Ulwazi

This webinar focuses on facilitating synchronous online learning interactions in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Accessing conferences
• Setting up online meeting spaces
• Facilitating synchronous learning in your course sites

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 4 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 10:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Using Gradescope in Ulwazi

Gradescope is an assessment tool that allows lecturers to grade and provide feedback on handwritten paper-based students’ work.

Gradescope is an assessment tool that allows lecturers to grade and provide feedback on handwritten paper-based students’ work, quizzes and assignments in an online platform. The tool is well suited for grading assessments based on handwritten work, calculations, drawings or chemical structures, cells, circuits, coding etc. With Gradescope students can upload written assessments to be graded. Lecturers can mark student assessments with annotation tools using text and pencil comments as feedback with reference to a dynamic rubric. This session focuses on the following areas:

• How to create various question types in Gradescope
• How to enable your students to submit paper-based work in Gradescope
• How to grade assessments in Gradescope
• How to create rubric items

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 4 March 2021 | Time: 13:30 – 15:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Using Turnitin in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to set up Turnitin assignments in your Ulwazi course site.

Turnitin is a similarity detection tool that helps detect plagiarism. Topics covered in this webinar include:

• How to set up your Turnitin assignments
• How to submit your documentation to the Turnitin system,
• How to access and analyse a Turnitin report
• How to print your Turnitin report

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 5 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 10:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Designing and Building your Course in Ulwazi

This introductory webinar aims to give you the confidence to start designing and building your courses in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Brief Overview of the Dashboard
• Navigating your course space
• Adding content to your course
• Uploading and managing your files
• Setting up your homepage

Presenters: Instructional Designers from the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 8 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 10:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Assessments in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to use the assessment tools in Ulwazi.

In this webinar you will learn how to use the following assessment tools in Ulwazi:

• Assignment: How to create an assignment for submission
• Rubric: How to add a Rubric to Assignment, graded Discussion and Quiz
• SpeedGrader: How to grade Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes using SpeedGrader
• Gradebook: How to set up Gradebook to publish assessment grades/ marks 

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 9 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 11:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Assessments in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to use the assessment tools in Ulwazi.

In this webinar you will learn how to use the following assessment tools in Ulwazi:

• Assignment: How to create an assignment for submission
• Rubric: How to add a Rubric to Assignment, graded Discussion and Quiz
• SpeedGrader: How to grade Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes using SpeedGrader
• Gradebook: How to set up Gradebook to publish assessment grades/ marks 

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 10 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 11:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

Add event to calendar

Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in Ulwazi

This webinar focuses on facilitating synchronous online learning interactions in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Accessing conferences
• Setting up online meeting spaces
• Facilitating synchronous learning in your course sites

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 11 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 10:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Using Gradescope in Ulwazi

Gradescope is an assessment tool that allows lecturers to grade and provide feedback on handwritten paper-based students’ work.

Gradescope is an assessment tool that allows lecturers to grade and provide feedback on handwritten paper-based students’ work, quizzes and assignments in an online platform. The tool is well suited for grading assessments based on handwritten work, calculations, drawings or chemical structures, cells, circuits, coding etc. With Gradescope students can upload written assessments to be graded. Lecturers can mark student assessments with annotation tools using text and pencil comments as feedback with reference to a dynamic rubric. This session focuses on the following areas:

• How to create various question types in Gradescope
• How to enable your students to submit paper-based work in Gradescope
• How to grade assessments in Gradescope
• How to create rubric items

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 11 March 2021 | Time: 13:30 – 15:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Using Turnitin in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to set up Turnitin assignments in your Ulwazi course site.

Turnitin is a similarity detection tool that helps detect plagiarism. Topics covered in this webinar include:

• How to set up your Turnitin assignments
• How to submit your documentation to the Turnitin system,
• How to access and analyse a Turnitin report
• How to print your Turnitin report

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 12 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 10:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Designing and Building your Course in Ulwazi

This introductory webinar aims to give you the confidence to start designing and building your courses in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Brief Overview of the Dashboard
• Navigating your course space
• Adding content to your course
• Uploading and managing your files
• Setting up your homepage

Presenters: Instructional Designers from the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 15 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 10:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Assessments in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to use the assessment tools in Ulwazi.

In this webinar you will learn how to use the following assessment tools in Ulwazi:

• Assignment: How to create an assignment for submission
• Rubric: How to add a Rubric to Assignment, graded Discussion and Quiz
• SpeedGrader: How to grade Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes using SpeedGrader
• Gradebook: How to set up Gradebook to publish assessment grades/ marks 

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 16 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 11:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Assessments in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to use the assessment tools in Ulwazi.

In this webinar you will learn how to use the following assessment tools in Ulwazi:

• Assignment: How to create an assignment for submission
• Rubric: How to add a Rubric to Assignment, graded Discussion and Quiz
• SpeedGrader: How to grade Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes using SpeedGrader
• Gradebook: How to set up Gradebook to publish assessment grades/ marks 

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 17 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 11:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in Ulwazi

This webinar focuses on facilitating synchronous online learning interactions in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Accessing conferences
• Setting up online meeting spaces
• Facilitating synchronous learning in your course sites

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 18 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 10:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Using Gradescope in Ulwazi

Gradescope is an assessment tool that allows lecturers to grade and provide feedback on handwritten paper-based students’ work.

Gradescope is an assessment tool that allows lecturers to grade and provide feedback on handwritten paper-based students’ work, quizzes and assignments in an online platform. The tool is well suited for grading assessments based on handwritten work, calculations, drawings or chemical structures, cells, circuits, coding etc. With Gradescope students can upload written assessments to be graded. Lecturers can mark student assessments with annotation tools using text and pencil comments as feedback with reference to a dynamic rubric. This session focuses on the following areas:

• How to create various question types in Gradescope
• How to enable your students to submit paper-based work in Gradescope
• How to grade assessments in Gradescope
• How to create rubric items

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 18 March 2021 | Time: 13:30 – 15:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Using Turnitin in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to set up Turnitin assignments in your Ulwazi course site.

Turnitin is a similarity detection tool that helps detect plagiarism. Topics covered in this webinar include:

• How to set up your Turnitin assignments
• How to submit your documentation to the Turnitin system,
• How to access and analyse a Turnitin report
• How to print your Turnitin report

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 19 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 10:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Assessments in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to use the assessment tools in Ulwazi.

In this webinar you will learn how to use the following assessment tools in Ulwazi:

• Assignment: How to create an assignment for submission
• Rubric: How to add a Rubric to Assignment, graded Discussion and Quiz
• SpeedGrader: How to grade Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes using SpeedGrader
• Gradebook: How to set up Gradebook to publish assessment grades/ marks 

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 23 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 11:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Assessments in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to use the assessment tools in Ulwazi.

In this webinar you will learn how to use the following assessment tools in Ulwazi:

• Assignment: How to create an assignment for submission
• Rubric: How to add a Rubric to Assignment, graded Discussion and Quiz
• SpeedGrader: How to grade Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes using SpeedGrader
• Gradebook: How to set up Gradebook to publish assessment grades/ marks 

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 24 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 11:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in Ulwazi

This webinar focuses on facilitating synchronous online learning interactions in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Accessing conferences
• Setting up online meeting spaces
• Facilitating synchronous learning in your course sites

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 25 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 10:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

Add event to calendar

Using Gradescope in Ulwazi

Gradescope is an assessment tool that allows lecturers to grade and provide feedback on handwritten paper-based students’ work.

Gradescope is an assessment tool that allows lecturers to grade and provide feedback on handwritten paper-based students’ work, quizzes and assignments in an online platform. The tool is well suited for grading assessments based on handwritten work, calculations, drawings or chemical structures, cells, circuits, coding etc. With Gradescope students can upload written assessments to be graded. Lecturers can mark student assessments with annotation tools using text and pencil comments as feedback with reference to a dynamic rubric. This session focuses on the following areas:

• How to create various question types in Gradescope
• How to enable your students to submit paper-based work in Gradescope
• How to grade assessments in Gradescope
• How to create rubric items

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 25 March 2021 | Time: 13:30 – 15:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

Add event to calendar

Using Turnitin in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to set up Turnitin assignments in your Ulwazi course site.

Turnitin is a similarity detection tool that helps detect plagiarism. Topics covered in this webinar include:

• How to set up your Turnitin assignments
• How to submit your documentation to the Turnitin system,
• How to access and analyse a Turnitin report
• How to print your Turnitin report

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 26 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 10:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Designing and Building your Course in Ulwazi

This introductory webinar aims to give you the confidence to start designing and building your courses in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Brief Overview of the Dashboard
• Navigating your course space
• Adding content to your course
• Uploading and managing your files
• Setting up your homepage

Presenters: Instructional Designers from the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 29 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 10:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Assessments in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to use the assessment tools in Ulwazi.

In this webinar you will learn how to use the following assessment tools in Ulwazi:

• Assignment: How to create an assignment for submission
• Rubric: How to add a Rubric to Assignment, graded Discussion and Quiz
• SpeedGrader: How to grade Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes using SpeedGrader
• Gradebook: How to set up Gradebook to publish assessment grades/ marks 

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 29 March 2021 | Time: 13:30 – 15:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Assessments in Ulwazi

In this webinar you will learn how to use the assessment tools in Ulwazi.

In this webinar you will learn how to use the following assessment tools in Ulwazi:

• Assignment: How to create an assignment for submission
• Rubric: How to add a Rubric to Assignment, graded Discussion and Quiz
• SpeedGrader: How to grade Assignments, Discussions and Quizzes using SpeedGrader
• Gradebook: How to set up Gradebook to publish assessment grades/ marks 

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD).

Date: 30 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 11:00 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Using Gradescope in Ulwazi

Gradescope is an assessment tool that allows lecturers to grade and provide feedback on handwritten paper-based students’ work.

Gradescope is an assessment tool that allows lecturers to grade and provide feedback on handwritten paper-based students’ work, quizzes and assignments in an online platform. The tool is well suited for grading assessments based on handwritten work, calculations, drawings or chemical structures, cells, circuits, coding etc. With Gradescope students can upload written assessments to be graded. Lecturers can mark student assessments with annotation tools using text and pencil comments as feedback with reference to a dynamic rubric. This session focuses on the following areas:

• How to create various question types in Gradescope
• How to enable your students to submit paper-based work in Gradescope
• How to grade assessments in Gradescope
• How to create rubric items

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 31 March 2021 | Time: 09:00 – 10:30 SAST

Platform Microsoft Teams. Click here to join the meeting

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Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in Ulwazi

This webinar focuses on facilitating synchronous online learning interactions in Ulwazi.

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CD 0: Learning and Teaching Philosophy

This fully online component of the curriculum development workshop series kicks off with an exploration of learning theories and how these theories inform personal learning and teaching philosophies. An understanding of how one views knowledge and how one comes to know is important as it shapes methodologies, approaches, and practices. Deep reflection on one’s philosophies (often tacit) goes a long way in being intentional about curriculum design.

Date: 12—16 April 2021

Time: 09:00 – 14:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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CD 1: Curriculum Orientation and Contexts

Curriculum means different things to different people and operates within different levels at an institution. This makes the concept of curriculum highly contested and complex especially within the curriculum decolonisation and transformation debates. To enable coherent and meaningful curricula, academics should critically interrogate their curriculum orientations and the influence this has on their curriculum decisions.

Their curriculum design and development should be approached in a scholarly manner especially when required to evaluate, design, interpret and implement curricula. The workshop will address curriculum as a concept and enable academics to further examine how curriculum policies are shaped by societal, institutional, personal, and interpersonal contexts and processes. The workshop will also introduce academics to key theories that underpin the principles of curriculum design. The workshop provides an opportunity to engage with the conceptual and contextual aspects of curriculum design like constructive alignment and being able to construct contextually relevant intended learning outcomes.

Date: 19—23 April 2021

Time: 09:00 – 14:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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CD 2: Open pedagogies

Discover practical ways of making your pedagogy more contextually relevant and open to diversity. In this (half-day) workshop, we will explore ways of using open educational resources, open education practices, open access, and open facilitation practices leading to more engaging learning experiences. We will focus on approaches which take into account who students are (student identities) and what they bring with them (experiences and practices).

Date: 26—30 April 2021

Time: 09:00 – 14:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Lunchtime Talk—How to Structure an Academic CV

The curriculum vitae, which is Latin for ‘course of life’ is a very important tool in the quest for academic achievement. At the simplest level it is a record of your achievements, a trace record, at the other extreme it can take on all the elements of a marketing campaign. Join us for a lunchtime (1 hour) discussion on different ways to layout your CV to best emphasise your achievements.

Date: 19 April 2021

Time: 13h15—14h15

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Digital Assessments

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for understanding and skill in assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. This workshop focuses on digital assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Date: Wednesday 14 April

Time: 09:00—11:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Digital Assessments

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for understanding and skill in assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. This workshop focuses on digital assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Date: Wednesday 28 April

Time: 13:00—15:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in Ulwazi

This webinar focuses on facilitating synchronous online learning interactions in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Accessing conferences
• Setting up online meeting spaces
• Facilitating synchronous learning in your course sites

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 18 February 2021

Time: 09:00 – 10:30

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Enhance learning through video with Canvas Studio

Canvas Studio is a modern video platform that allows instructors and students to actively collaborate through video media. Studio makes it easy for lecturers to create engaging videos and for students to participate in dynamic conversations and assessments. This webinar will look at how to:  

• Navigate studio
• Create videos using studio
• Design and deliver assessments that are embedded directly in the video
• Use studio analytics to improve learning

Date: Friday 16 April 

Time: 9:00-10:30

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Enhance learning through video with Canvas Studio

Canvas Studio is a modern video platform that allows instructors and students to actively collaborate through video media. Studio makes it easy for lecturers to create engaging videos and for students to participate in dynamic conversations and assessments. This webinar will look at how to:  

• Navigate studio
• Create videos using studio
• Design and deliver assessments that are embedded directly in the video
• Use studio analytics to improve learning

Date: Thursday 29 April 

Time: 9:00-10:30

To book for this webinar, please click [here]

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Postgraduate Supervision

Good supervision is central to successful graduate research, yet it is difficult to define and develop. This half-day introductory workshop explores models and systems of supervision, institutional policy and procedures, and supervisor-student relationships.

Date: Wednesday 21 April

Time: 8:30-13:00

Venue: TBC

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Blue Explorance Open lunch hour discussions

This is an Open forum where CLTD Evaluation Services staff respond to questions and challenges experienced by staff when using Blue Explorance system. 

Date: Thursday 29 April

Time: 13:00-14:00

Venue: TBC

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Academic Professional Learning Opportunities

Students at emotional risk

The Counselling and Careers Development Unit is offering a half-day workshop to Wits academic and administrative support staff. The workshop covers mental wellness, as well as basic skills to identify, contain and refer students in need of psychological or psychiatric intervention. This includes the identification of certain high-risk characteristics/circumstances associated with the deterioration of the functioning of a student.

The primary objectives of this workshop are to provide university staff that lecture, support and/or work with students with relevant information to assist and support these students during their university career.

Date: 26 May 2021

Time: 13:30-14:30

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Academic Role

Given the continuous change and those especially associated with the shifts to remote learning and teaching, within the Higher Education sector and its influence on the academic role within universities, there is a need for academics to unpack and explore their changing academic roles. This interactive workshop aims to bridge the age-old teaching and research divide that exists within universities, specifically research-intensive institutions. The workshop will introduce academics to the basic principles of their academic role within the South African higher education sector and within Wits in particular. The focus will then shift to academics exploring their scholarship through their learning and teaching role within a faculty.

The university teacher has an important and demanding role to play in the process of supporting student learning through the design of learning and teaching contexts in which students can learn most effectively.

The teaching role within the Wits context, has many dimensions: providing a broad context of knowledge; helping students to understand, locate and create personally

and contextually relevant meaning of the knowledge; providing a learning environment that encourages students to think critically, solve problems and to be able to communicate in the language of the discipline or knowledge and it involves ongoing reflection on their practice. It also requires teachers to help students set and achieve their own aims through commitment and being responsible for their own learning.

The experiential learning activities within the workshop is designed so that the academic will engage with the academic role within the higher education sector. Principles of facilitating for learning to occur includes:

• principles of learning
• an overview of curriculum knowledge and blended learning design
• an overview of assessment
• embedding writing within the curriculum
• a micro teaching session (a scaled down teaching session), and
• feedback as well as reflective

The aim of the workshop is to encourage lecturers to take up their teaching role in a scholarly manner with creativity, enthusiasm, and self-reflection.

Who should attend? New academics, early career academics or academics who have been at Wits for a while and who would like to improve their learning and teaching environments. Numbers are limited, and early booking is advised. Attendance is expected for all sessions.

Date: 18—20 May, 24 May and 22 June 2021

Time: 08:30—16:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Assessment in Higher Education: Strategies for the digital age

Effective learning and teaching involve the integration and alignment of three core elements, namely curriculum, facilitation practices and learning interactions1, and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content, learning interactions and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity and reliability of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role assessment plays in students’ achievement of structured learning outcomes, and to be able to design quality assessments for specific contexts. In addition to the need for understanding assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. In response to this need, the Centre for Learning Teaching and Development (CLTD) at Wits has developed this fully online short course on assessment with special focus on assessment in the digital space.

1.  For  example,  student↔facilitator,  student↔student,  and  student↔content  interactions during the course of a learning conversation)

Date: 5 May 2021

Time: TBC—8 weeks

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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CD 3: Assessment for learning in higher education

Participants in this workshop will consider assessment from the viewpoints of the different stakeholders and will gain a deeper appreciation of assessment as an intrinsic part of the student learning process. Focusing on a particular course, participants will explore how learning outcomes, assessment tasks, and learning and teaching activities build and enhance the growth of desirable attributes, knowledge, skills and values using appropriate assessment methods and educational technologies that are diverse, complementary and embedded strategically throughout the course. Challenges associated with providing meaningful feedback for undergraduate and postgraduate students will also be considered.

Date: 3—7 May 2021

Time: 09:00 – 14:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Facilitating Online (FO)

As a Wits academic, you are now required to develop a blended approach to your courses and include an online component. This facilitating online course (FO), an open educational resource that has been reconceptualised for the Wits context, will support you in this new role as an online facilitator and designer of online interactions and engagements. You will develop the design skills required to create interactive online learning experiences, the facilitation skills required to enable meaningful online discussions, and the technical skills to use tools (such as blogs, podcasts, and synchronous communication software) to deepen student engagement. At the end of this course, you are required to submit an e-portfolio (electronic collection of evidence) of your personal growth as an online facilitator. As an end of course assessment, the e-portfolio will demonstrate your learning journey over a period of time. The course is offered twice a year with each offering facilitated over a period of eight weeks (week 0—7). The offerings are facilitated in a fully online modality.

Notional hours for this accredited course are calculated at 100 hours.

• 60 hours    online    engagement—readings/activities,     discussions,    desktop research
• 20 hours self-study research/following links
• 10 hours live virtual sessions
• 10 hours final assessment—comprises approximately 60—90 minutes a day over a week to complete an e-portfolio

Dates: 1st Run May—June 2021 (8 weeks)

• Week 0 (5—8 May)
• Week 1 (10—14 May)
• Week 2 (17—21 May)
• Week 3 (24—28 May)
• Week 4 (31 May—4 June)
• Week 5 (7—11 June)
• Week 6 (14—18 June)
• Week 7 (21—25 June)

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CD 4: Curriculum Development

Do you currently teach a course you would like to revamp or improve? This workshop will give you practical ways to enhance your course through curriculum (re)design, adding multimedia and interactive elements, and developing authentic assessments. You will develop curriculum outputs to use in your course. Outputs may include a curriculum course map, module outline, student guide, assessment instruments and tools, multimedia, etc.

Date: 10—14 May 2021

Time: 09:00 – 14:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Teaching multicultural diverse students

In South Africa and many countries globally, higher education has changed from being an elite system to a mass system. This massive increase in enrolment has contributed to the increase in the diversity of the student population. This means that academics need to think carefully about their curriculum choices, facilitation practices, and assessment as they engage in a multicultural diverse classroom. This workshop will introduce participants to strategies on how to teach multicultural diverse students in the 21st century. The workshop starts with exploring literature on culturally responsive facilitation practices and then moves on to take participants through various process on designing and developing culturally relevant curricula, facilitation practices, and assessments.

Date: 24 May 2021

Time: 9:00-12:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Digital Assessments

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for understanding and skill in assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. This workshop focuses on digital assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Date: Wednesday 12 May

Time: 9:00—11:00

Venue: Click here to join the meeting

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Digital Assessments

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for understanding and skill in assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. This workshop focuses on digital assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Date: Wednesday 26 May

Time: 13:00—15:00

Venue: Click here to join the meeting

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Enhance learning through video with Canvas Studio

Canvas Studio is a modern video platform that allows instructors and students to actively collaborate through video media. Studio makes it easy for lecturers to create engaging videos and for students to participate in dynamic conversations and assessments. This webinar will look at how to:  

• Navigate studio
• Create videos using studio
• Design and deliver assessments that are embedded directly in the video
• Use studio analytics to improve learning

Date: Thursday 6 May 

Time: 9:00-10:30

To book for this webinar, please click [here]

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Enhance learning through video with Canvas Studio

Canvas Studio is a modern video platform that allows instructors and students to actively collaborate through video media. Studio makes it easy for lecturers to create engaging videos and for students to participate in dynamic conversations and assessments. This webinar will look at how to:  

• Navigate studio
• Create videos using studio
• Design and deliver assessments that are embedded directly in the video
• Use studio analytics to improve learning

Date: Thursday 27 May 

Time: 9:00-10:30

To book for this webinar, please click [here]

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Using Canvas New Analytics to improve student engagement

In an online class we don’t receive feedback from our students in the same way that we do in a face-to-face class, so how do we know how our students are doing in an asynchronous learning environment? The Canvas New Analytics tool helps you see the interaction students are having with the course materials in your course on ulwazi. These analytics can help you identify which students may not be as engaged and allow you to reach out to those students. 

This webinar will look at how to:

• enable the new analytics tool
• view student page views and participation activity
• track average course grades using interactive graphs or tables
• message students who meet a certain criteria
• download student views and participation data

Date: Tuesday 24 May

Time: 9:00-10:30

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Research and Postgraduate Supervision

Research Project Budgeting

A research project budget is a vital component of any funding proposal. Join the facilitators—both Business Development Managers at Wits Enterprise—as they discuss how to develop a budget that supports and enhances your research or consulting proposal. The workshop will take place online and allows delegates to develop their own budgets that account for direct and indirect costs (CORY). It covers issues such as VAT, student bursaries and charge-out rates. You need not be an accountant to make sense of these issues. In fact, the course is intended for non-accountants.

Date: 5 May 2021

Time: 9:00-13:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Project Planning in the Research Context

How do you plan a research project? Is it possible to plan research? The classical project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) is often unsuitable for research projects simply because it is impossible to estimate the time for each task. Research is, after all, a step into the unknown. Take heart, this does not mean your research project will descend into chaos. There are other ways of managing research projects that are agile enough to deal with the complexities of volatile research projects. Dr Robin Drennan, the Director for Research Development in the University Research Office, will describe some of these more agile project management techniques that will allow you to plan, in the absence of information and despite uncertainty, for the unknown.

Date: 14 May 2021

Time: 9:00-13:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Zotero

This is a virtual workshop that will introduce you to Zotero, a free, open-source alternative to reference manager systems. Zotero allows you to easily save bibliographic details, comments, indexing terms, and direct links to webpages, word documents, and even articles that are in library subscription databases. You will be shown how you can use Zotero to integrate your references into your research in many citation styles using Microsoft Word. For more information, please visit Library Libguides. http://libguides.wits.ac.za/zotero

Date: 14 May 2021

Time: 9:30-13:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Wits CLTD Conference on Learning and Teaching (Online- 2-4 August 2021)

Lockdown learning, Telling our stories, CLTD Conference

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Mentoring

This half-day mentoring workshop aims to guide efforts towards adding a mentoring component to programmes. Come and explore skills, principles, concepts, and activities that may contribute to mentoring relationships and collaboratively suggest guidance on staying connected with mentees during a time of social and physical distancing.

Date: 22 June 2021

Time: 9:00—11:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL)

As part of interrogating ‘good’ teaching practices—what programme quality enhancement could look like—this half-day workshop explores an overview of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) in Higher Education. It further outlines several suggestions through which SOTL may be established and scholarship improved. We invite you to come and share your thoughts, ideas, and practices on enhancing SOTL.

Date: 29 June 2021

Time: TBC

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Designing Interactive Student Engagement

This webinar will assist you in using various approaches to design interactive learning environments to enhance the learning experiences of your students.

Date: Tuesday 1 June

Time: 10:00-12:00

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Designing Interactive Student Engagement

This webinar will assist you in using various approaches to design interactive learning environments to enhance the learning experiences of your students.

Date: Tuesday 8 June

Time: 10:00-12:00

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Digital Assessments

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for understanding and skill in assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. This workshop focuses on digital assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Date: Wednesday 9 June

Time: 9:00—11:00

Venue: Click here to join the meeting

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Digital Assessments

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for understanding and skill in assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. This workshop focuses on digital assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Date: Wednesday 23 June

Time: 13:00—15:00

Venue: Click here to join the meeting

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Senior-Career Academics (SCA)

In 2021, we aim to foster a community of practice (CoP) amongst Assistant Deans, to engage in conversation about the needs of senior career academics. The purpose is to decide on a suite of offerings that will be designed, developed, and offered in 2022

Date: 2 June 2021

Time: 9:00-11:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Enhance learning through video with Canvas Studio

Canvas Studio is a modern video platform that allows instructors and students to actively collaborate through video media. Studio makes it easy for lecturers to create engaging videos and for students to participate in dynamic conversations and assessments. This webinar will look at how to:  

• Navigate studio
• Create videos using studio
• Design and deliver assessments that are embedded directly in the video
• Use studio analytics to improve learning

Date: Thursday 3 June 

Time: 9:00-10:30

To book for this webinar, please click [here]

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Enhance learning through video with Canvas Studio

Canvas Studio is a modern video platform that allows instructors and students to actively collaborate through video media. Studio makes it easy for lecturers to create engaging videos and for students to participate in dynamic conversations and assessments. This webinar will look at how to:  

• Navigate studio
• Create videos using studio
• Design and deliver assessments that are embedded directly in the video
• Use studio analytics to improve learning

Date: Thursday 24 June 

Time: 9:00-10:30

To book for this webinar, please click [here]

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Using Canvas New Analytics to improve student engagement

In an online class we don’t receive feedback from our students in the same way that we do in a face-to-face class, so how do we know how our students are doing in an asynchronous learning environment? The Canvas New Analytics tool helps you see the interaction students are having with the course materials in your course on ulwazi. These analytics can help you identify which students may not be as engaged and allow you to reach out to those students. 

This webinar will look at how to:

• enable the new analytics tool
• view student page views and participation activity
• track average course grades using interactive graphs or tables
• message students who meet a certain criteria
• download student views and participation data

Date: Tuesday 14 June

Time: 9:00-10:30

To attend this webinar, please book [here]

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Planning your Academic Career

Do you know what you need to do today to achieve your career goals in six years’ time? A successful academic career requires a considerable amount of juggling. Research, teaching, supervision, community engagement, funding, sabbaticals, conferences, promotion, NRF ratings—they all need to be factored into your plan. Dr Robin Drennan, the Director for Research Development in the University Research Office, will help you develop a five to seven-year macro plan that will ensure you are well placed to make the best of your career. An emphasis is placed on research throughout this workshop.

Date: 4 June

Time: 9:00—13:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Writing Winning Proposals

Discover, with the support of Dr Robin Drennan, Director for Research Development in the University Research Office, how to write a persuasive proposal for research funding. Having understood that every funder is contractually bound to deliver a return of some sort on the funds under their management, it is plain to see several ‘magical buttons’ that will get you funding. Some of these buttons are explicit but others are not. The trick is to find them. The workshop material also covers the differences between a research plan, a problem statement, rationale and motivation, and aims and objectives, all elements of typical proposals. The importance of selecting appropriate reviewers, leaving nothing to chance and the need to make every part of the proposal supportive of your bid for funding are also discussed. Finally, the workshop explores differences in writing styles: Persuasive writing used in proposals and standard writing techniques used in the publication of research outputs.

Date: 18 June

Time: 9:00—13:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Enhancing Research Supervision

This course aims to enhance research supervisory capacity taking into account the diverse context and conditions in which supervisors work as well as the differences in institutional and disciplinary postgraduate supervisory practices and processes.

After engaging with the course and the course materials the participant should be able to:

• Develop a strategy to address power relations and create an inclusive and participatory learning environment in their supervisory context
• Critically reflect on the importance of scholarship in their learning environment
• Critique their supervisory practices and implement changes aimed at enhancing student learning
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the supervisory processes in their context and recommend improvements
• Participate in a collegial network of support and build an online community of practice that enhances supervisory practice
• This 30-credit short course at NQF Level 8 comprises the following phases: 3 days face-to-face; 6 weeks on-line; and 3 days face-to-face and includes assessment An e Portfolio (100%) inclusive of formative and summative assessments must be submitted at the conclusion of the course for credit assessment.

Date: 9 June - August 2021

Time: 13:30—14:30

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Postgraduate Supervision

Good supervision is central to successful graduate research, yet it is difficult to define and develop. This half-day introductory workshop explores models and systems of supervision, institutional policy and procedures, and supervisor-student relationships.

Date: 8 June 

Time: 8:30—13:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Smart Educational Technologies for Student-centered (Inter)active Learning

These webinars and face-to-face workshops aim to provide opportunities for academics and academic support professionals to learn about using smart classroom technologies to design and facilitate student-centered (inter)active learning experiences. Training will take place over two days. The online session on Day 1 will introduce participants to the Smart Classroom teaching and learning technologies and suggest ways to use these technologies to create an (inter)active student-centered learning experience. The face-to-face workshop on Day 2 — which occurs the day after the webinar — will demonstrate how smart technologies may be applied in real-life teaching and learning situations and will offer participants an opportunity to test out various teaching and learning scenarios.

Day 1 will take place online from 09:00 - 10:30 and Day 2 will take place onsite in the Smart Classroom in the Gate House building (GH403) at the Wits Braamfontein campus from 10:00 - 12:30/ 11:00 – 13:30 (Please refer to training schedule below). Please note that due to COVID-19 regulations we will only be accepting 12 participants per training session. Bookings need to be made at least 48 hours prior to the training session and participants should arrive at the onsite workshops at least 15 minutes before the session begins.

Day 1

Date:  14 June 

Time: 9:00-10:30 (Online)

Day 2

Date:  15 June 

Time: 11:00-13:30 (Gatehouse GH403)

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Smart Educational Technologies for Student-centered (Inter)active Learning

These webinars and face-to-face workshops aim to provide opportunities for academics and academic support professionals to learn about using smart classroom technologies to design and facilitate student-centered (inter)active learning experiences. Training will take place over two days. The online session on Day 1 will introduce participants to the Smart Classroom teaching and learning technologies and suggest ways to use these technologies to create an (inter)active student-centered learning experience. The face-to-face workshop on Day 2 — which occurs the day after the webinar — will demonstrate how smart technologies may be applied in real-life teaching and learning situations and will offer participants an opportunity to test out various teaching and learning scenarios.

Day 1 will take place online from 09:00 - 10:30 and Day 2 will take place onsite in the Smart Classroom in the Gate House building (GH403) at the Wits Braamfontein campus from 10:00 - 12:30/ 11:00 – 13:30 (Please refer to training schedule below). Please note that due to COVID-19 regulations we will only be accepting 12 participants per training session. Bookings need to be made at least 48 hours prior to the training session and participants should arrive at the onsite workshops at least 15 minutes before the session begins.

Day 1

Date:  30 June 

Time: 9:00-10:30 (Online)

Day 2

Date:  1 July 

Time: 11:00-13:30 (Gatehouse GH403)

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Wits Writing Programme Webinar

Wits Writing Programme Webinar: Writing Across Disciplines: Strategies for Deepening Learning

How do we improve the quality of learning online? How do we try to ensure deep student engagement? Writing Intensive (WI) courses, as with other courses at Wits, have struggled with the unexpected and often devastating effects on learning created by the pandemic. However, the WI approach offers strategies to address the issue of quality, through a scaffolded learning of specific critical thinking skills, and through the continuous practice and reflection on ways of thinking and communicating made possible by the addition of Writing Fellow (WF) tutors.

In this webinar, 5 WI lecturers and their WF tutors, representing each Faculty, will present a strategy or aspect of their course which illustrates one or more of the aims of WI courses. Presenters include: Professor Pamela Nichols (WWP); Professor Margaret Archibald (Mathematics); Dr Nosipho Mngomeuzulu and Ms Leyya Hoosen (Anthrolopology); Mr Stephen Pentz with Simphiwe Bala and Ntsako Mphahlani (Health Sciences); Ms Jean Moore (Law); Ms Bontle Tladi (Industrial Engineering). There will be 30 minutes for comments and questions.

Date: 25 June

Time: 12:00—13:30

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Designing Interactive Student Engagement

This webinar will assist you in using various approaches to design interactive learning environments to enhance the learning experiences of your students.

Date: Tuesday 7 July

Time: 10:00-12:00

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Designing Interactive Student Engagement

This webinar will assist you in using various approaches to design interactive learning environments to enhance the learning experiences of your students.

Date: Tuesday 14 July

Time: 10:00-12:00

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Digital Assessments

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for understanding and skill in assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. This workshop focuses on digital assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Date: Wednesday 14 July

Time: 09:00—11:00

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Digital Assessments

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for understanding and skill in assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. This workshop focuses on digital assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Date: Wednesday 28 July

Time: 13:00—15:00

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Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in Ulwazi

This webinar focuses on facilitating synchronous online learning interactions in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Accessing conferences
• Setting up online meeting spaces
• Facilitating synchronous learning in your course sites

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 8 July 2021

Time: 09:00 – 10:30

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Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in Ulwazi

This webinar focuses on facilitating synchronous online learning interactions in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Accessing conferences
• Setting up online meeting spaces
• Facilitating synchronous learning in your course sites

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 15 July 2021

Time: 09:00 – 10:30

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Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in Ulwazi

This webinar focuses on facilitating synchronous online learning interactions in Ulwazi.

Topics include:

• Accessing conferences
• Setting up online meeting spaces
• Facilitating synchronous learning in your course sites

Presenters: Instructional Designers at the E-learning Support and Innovation Unit at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD)

Date: 29 July 2021

Time: 09:00 – 10:30

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Enhance learning through video with Canvas Studio

Canvas Studio is a modern video platform that allows instructors and students to actively collaborate through video media. Studio makes it easy for lecturers to create engaging videos and for students to participate in dynamic conversations and assessments. This webinar will look at how to:  

• Navigate studio
• Create videos using studio
• Design and deliver assessments that are embedded directly in the video
• Use studio analytics to improve learning

Date: 6 July 

Time: 9:00-10:30

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Enhance learning through video with Canvas Studio

Canvas Studio is a modern video platform that allows instructors and students to actively collaborate through video media. Studio makes it easy for lecturers to create engaging videos and for students to participate in dynamic conversations and assessments. This webinar will look at how to:  

• Navigate studio
• Create videos using studio
• Design and deliver assessments that are embedded directly in the video
• Use studio analytics to improve learning

Date: 27 July 

Time: 9:00-10:30

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Planning your Sabbatical

A sabbatical comes once every six years—so it is vital to make the most of it. Dr Robin Drennan, the Director for Research Development in the University Research Office, will share some pointers on how, when and what to plan for a successful sabbatical. This workshop will help you develop a plan and so make the most of the opportunity. Your sabbatical plan should maximise the impact of the time on your research. Various funding options will also be discussed.

Date: 30 July

Time: 09:00—13:00

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Blue Explorance Open lunch hour discussions

Open forum where CLTD Evaluation Services staff respond to questions and  challenges  experienced   by staff when using Blue Explorance system

Date: 29 July

Time: 13:00—14:00

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Students at emotional risk

The Counselling and Careers Development Unit is offering a half-day workshop to Wits academic and administrative support staff. The workshop covers mental wellness, as well as basic skills to identify, contain and refer students in need of psychological or psychiatric intervention. This includes the identification of certain high-risk characteristics/circumstances associated with the deterioration of the functioning of a student.

The primary objectives of this workshop are to provide university staff that lecture, support and/or work with students with relevant information to assist and support these students during their university career.

Date: 3 August 2021

Time: 9:00 - 12:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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CD 0: Learning and Teaching Philosophy

This fully online component of the curriculum development workshop series kicks off with an exploration of learning theories and how these theories inform personal learning and teaching philosophies. An understanding of how one views knowledge and how one comes to know is important as it shapes methodologies, approaches, and practices. Deep reflection on one’s philosophies (often tacit) goes a long way in being intentional about curriculum design.

Date: 10—12 August 2021

Time: 09:00 – 14:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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CD 1: Curriculum Orientation and Contexts

Curriculum means different things to different people and operates within different levels at an institution. This makes the concept of curriculum highly contested and complex especially within the curriculum decolonisation and transformation debates. To enable coherent and meaningful curricula, academics should critically interrogate their curriculum orientations and the influence this has on their curriculum decisions.

Their curriculum design and development should be approached in a scholarly manner especially when required to evaluate, design, interpret and implement curricula. The workshop will address curriculum as a concept and enable academics to further examine how curriculum policies are shaped by societal, institutional, personal, and interpersonal contexts and processes. The workshop will also introduce academics to key theories that underpin the principles of curriculum design. The workshop provides an opportunity to engage with the conceptual and contextual aspects of curriculum design like constructive alignment and being able to construct contextually relevant intended learning outcomes.

Date: 16—20 August 2021

Time: 09:00 – 14:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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CD 2: Open pedagogies

Discover practical ways of making your pedagogy more contextually relevant and open to diversity. In this (half-day) workshop, we will explore ways of using open educational resources, open education practices, open access, and open facilitation practices leading to more engaging learning experiences. We will focus on approaches which take into account who students are (student identities) and what they bring with them (experiences and practices).

Date: 23—27 Aug 2021

Time: 09:00 – 14:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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CD 3: Assessment for learning in higher education

Participants in this workshop will consider assessment from the viewpoints of the different stakeholders and will gain a deeper appreciation of assessment as an intrinsic part of the student learning process. Focusing on a particular course, participants will explore how learning outcomes, assessment tasks, and learning and teaching activities build and enhance the growth of desirable attributes, knowledge, skills and values using appropriate assessment methods and educational technologies that are diverse, complementary and embedded strategically throughout the course. Challenges associated with providing meaningful feedback for undergraduate and postgraduate students will also be considered.

Date: 30 August —3 September 2021

Time: 09:00 – 14:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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CD 4: Curriculum Development

Do you currently teach a course you would like to revamp or improve? This workshop will give you practical ways to enhance your course through curriculum (re)design, adding multimedia and interactive elements, and developing authentic assessments. You will develop curriculum outputs to use in your course. Outputs may include a curriculum course map, module outline, student guide, assessment instruments and tools, multimedia, etc.

Date: 6—10 September 2021

Time: 09:00 – 14:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Designing Interactive Student Engagement

This webinar will assist you in using various approaches to design interactive learning environments to enhance the learning experiences of your students.

Date:  4 August

Time: 10:00-12:00

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Designing Interactive Student Engagement

This webinar will assist you in using various approaches to design interactive learning environments to enhance the learning experiences of your students.

Date:  11 August

Time: 10:00-12:00

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Digital Assessments

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for understanding and skill in assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. This workshop focuses on digital assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Date: Wednesday 11 August

Time: 9:00 am—11:00 am

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Digital Assessments

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for understanding and skill in assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. This workshop focuses on digital assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Date: Wednesday 25 August

Time: 13:00 —15:00 am

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Publishing for Impact

Whether you are driven by altruism and want your research to improve the world, or by a desire to increase your reputation as a research focused scholar, or a combination of both, you need to plan where, when, and how you publish your research. Too often we base our publishing habits on what we picked up from our PhD supervisors and colleagues without giving any thought to a careful strategy. Join Dr Robin Drennan in a workshop that looks at the wide array of possibilities for sharing your knowledge with others. In this workshop you will be exposed to ideas that may help you strategically decide where your research output is to be shared and / or published.

Date: 12-13 August 2021

Time: 9:00 - 13:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Writing Winning Proposals

Discover, with the support of Dr Robin Drennan, Director for Research Development in the University Research Office, how to write a persuasive proposal for research funding. Having understood that every funder is contractually bound to deliver a return of some sort on the funds under their management, it is plain to see several ‘magical buttons’ that will get you funding. Some of these buttons are explicit but others are not. The trick is to find them. The workshop material also covers the differences between a research plan, a problem statement, rationale and motivation, and aims and objectives, all elements of typical proposals. The importance of selecting appropriate reviewers, leaving nothing to chance and the need to make every part of the proposal supportive of your bid for funding are also discussed. Finally, the workshop explores differences in writing styles: Persuasive writing used in proposals and standard writing techniques used in the publication of research outputs.

Date: 20 August 2021

Time: 9:00 - 13:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Zotero

This is a virtual workshop that will introduce you to Zotero, a free, open-source alternative to reference manager systems. Zotero allows you to easily save bibliographic details, comments, indexing terms, and direct links to webpages, word documents, and even articles that are in library subscription databases. You will be shown how you can use Zotero to integrate your references into your research in many citation styles using Microsoft Word. For more information, please visit Library Libguides. http://libguides.wits.ac.za/zotero

Date: 20 August 2021

Time: 9:00-13:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Basic Supporter Skills training

The Counselling and Careers Development Unit staff are offering academic, support and residence staff a two-day workshop on supportive skills and basic counselling.The requirement for the attendance of this Supportive Skills course is full attendance of the Students at Emotional Risk workshop. This training includes sections on self- reflection and self-awareness, as well as supporter and counselling skills. Please note: Staff who are feeling emotionally fragile or who have experienced recent trauma or bereavement are advised not to attend at this point.

Date: 22-23 September 2021

Time: 08:30am - 14:00 pm

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Facilitating Online (FO)

As a Wits academic, you are now required to develop a blended approach to your courses and include an online component. This facilitating online course (FO), an open educational resource that has been reconceptualised for the Wits context, will support you in this new role as an online facilitator and designer of online interactions and engagements. You will develop the design skills required to create interactive online learning experiences, the facilitation skills required to enable meaningful online discussions, and the technical skills to use tools (such as blogs, podcasts, and synchronous communication software) to deepen student engagement. At the end of this course, you are required to submit an e-portfolio (electronic collection of evidence) of your personal growth as an online facilitator. As an end of course assessment, the e-portfolio will demonstrate your learning journey over a period of time. The course is offered twice a year with each offering facilitated over a period of eight weeks (week 0—7). The offerings are facilitated in a fully online modality.

Notional hours for this accredited course are calculated at 100 hours.

• 60 hours    online    engagement—readings/activities,     discussions,    desktop research
• 20 hours self-study research/following links
• 10 hours live virtual sessions
• 10 hours final assessment—comprises approximately 60—90 minutes a day over a week to complete an e-portfolio

Dates: 2nd Run 1 Sept—22 October 2021 (8 weeks)

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Mentoring

This half-day mentoring workshop aims to guide efforts towards adding a mentoring component to programmes. Come and explore skills, principles, concepts, and activities that may contribute to mentoring relationships and collaboratively suggest guidance on staying connected with mentees during a time of social and physical distancing.

Date: 22 September 2021

Time: 9:00—11:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Designing Interactive Student Engagement

This webinar will assist you in using various approaches to design interactive learning environments to enhance the learning experiences of your students.

Date:  21 September

Time: 10:00-12:00

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Designing Interactive Student Engagement

This webinar will assist you in using various approaches to design interactive learning environments to enhance the learning experiences of your students.

Date:  28 September

Time: 10:00-12:00

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Digital Assessments

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for understanding and skill in assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. This workshop focuses on digital assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Date: 15 September

Time: 9:00 —11:00 am

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Digital Assessments

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for understanding and skill in assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. This workshop focuses on digital assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Date: 29 September

Time: 13:00 —15:00 pm

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Using Canvas New Analytics to improve student engagement

In an online class we don’t receive feedback from our students in the same way that we do in a face-to-face class, so how do we know how our students are doing in an asynchronous learning environment? The Canvas New Analytics tool helps you see the interaction students are having with the course materials in your course on ulwazi. These analytics can help you identify which students may not be as engaged and allow you to reach out to those students. 

This webinar will look at how to:

• enable the new analytics tool
• view student page views and participation activity
• track average course grades using interactive graphs or tables
• message students who meet a certain criteria
• download student views and participation data

Date: 16 September

Time: 9:00-10:30

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Research Project Budgeting

Research Project Budgeting

A research project budget is a vital component of any funding proposal. Join the facilitators—both Business Development Managers at Wits Enterprise—as they discuss how to develop a budget that supports and enhances your research or consulting proposal. The workshop will take place online and allows delegates to develop their own budgets that account for direct and indirect costs (CORY). It covers issues such as VAT, student bursaries and charge-out rates. You need not be an accountant to make sense of these issues. In fact, the course is intended for non-accountants.

Date: 9 September 2021

Time: 9:00-13:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Project Planning in the Research Context

How do you plan a research project? Is it possible to plan research? The classical project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) is often unsuitable for research projects simply because it is impossible to estimate the time for each task. Research is, after all, a step into the unknown. Take heart, this does not mean your research project will descend into chaos. There are other ways of managing research projects that are agile enough to deal with the complexities of volatile research projects. Dr Robin Drennan, the Director for Research Development in the University Research Office, will describe some of these more agile project management techniques that will allow you to plan, in the absence of information and despite uncertainty, for the unknown.

Date: 10 September 2021

Time: 9:00-13:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Enhancing Research Supervision

This course aims to enhance research supervisory capacity taking into account the diverse context and conditions in which supervisors work as well as the differences in institutional and disciplinary postgraduate supervisory practices and processes.

After engaging with the course and the course materials the participant should be able to:

• Develop a strategy to address power relations and create an inclusive and participatory learning environment in their supervisory context
• Critically reflect on the importance of scholarship in their learning environment
• Critique their supervisory practices and implement changes aimed at enhancing student learning
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the supervisory processes in their context and recommend improvements
• Participate in a collegial network of support and build an online community of practice that enhances supervisory practice
• This 30-credit short course at NQF Level 8 comprises the following phases: 3 days face-to-face; 6 weeks on-line; and 3 days face-to-face and includes assessment An e Portfolio (100%) inclusive of formative and summative assessments must be submitted at the conclusion of the course for credit assessment.

Date: 14 September - 7 November 2021

Time: 9:00—12:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Postgraduate Supervision

Good supervision is central to successful graduate research, yet it is difficult to define and develop. This half-day introductory workshop explores models and systems of supervision, institutional policy and procedures, and supervisor-student relationships.

Date: 15 September  

Time: 8:30—13:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Academic Role

Given the continuous change and those especially associated with the shifts to remote learning and teaching, within the Higher Education sector and its influence on the academic role within universities, there is a need for academics to unpack and explore their changing academic roles. This interactive workshop aims to bridge the age-old teaching and research divide that exists within universities, specifically research-intensive institutions. The workshop will introduce academics to the basic principles of their academic role within the South African higher education sector and within Wits in particular. The focus will then shift to academics exploring their scholarship through their learning and teaching role within a faculty.

The university teacher has an important and demanding role to play in the process of supporting student learning through the design of learning and teaching contexts in which students can learn most effectively.

The teaching role within the Wits context, has many dimensions: providing a broad context of knowledge; helping students to understand, locate and create personally

and contextually relevant meaning of the knowledge; providing a learning environment that encourages students to think critically, solve problems and to be able to communicate in the language of the discipline or knowledge and it involves ongoing reflection on their practice. It also requires teachers to help students set and achieve their own aims through commitment and being responsible for their own learning.

The experiential learning activities within the workshop is designed so that the academic will engage with the academic role within the higher education sector. Principles of facilitating for learning to occur includes:

• principles of learning
• an overview of curriculum knowledge and blended learning design
• an overview of assessment
• embedding writing within the curriculum
• a micro teaching session (a scaled down teaching session), and
• feedback as well as reflective

The aim of the workshop is to encourage lecturers to take up their teaching role in a scholarly manner with creativity, enthusiasm, and self-reflection.

Who should attend? New academics, early career academics or academics who have been at Wits for a while and who would like to improve their learning and teaching environments. Numbers are limited, and early booking is advised. Attendance is expected for all sessions.

Course Dates: 19—21 October, 25 October and 18 November 2021

Time: 08:30—16:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Assessment in Higher Education: Strategies for the digital age

Effective learning and teaching involve the integration and alignment of three core elements, namely curriculum, facilitation practices and learning interactions1, and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content, learning interactions and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity and reliability of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role assessment plays in students’ achievement of structured learning outcomes, and to be able to design quality assessments for specific contexts. In addition to the need for understanding assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. In response to this need, the Centre for Learning Teaching and Development (CLTD) at Wits has developed this fully online short course on assessment with special focus on assessment in the digital space.

1.  For  example,  student↔facilitator,  student↔student,  and  student↔content  interactions during the course of a learning conversation)

Date: 7 October 2021

Time: TBC—8 weeks

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Designing Interactive Student Engagement

This webinar will assist you in using various approaches to design interactive learning environments to enhance the learning experiences of your students.

Date:  5 October 

Time: 10:00-12:00

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Designing Interactive Student Engagement

This webinar will assist you in using various approaches to design interactive learning environments to enhance the learning experiences of your students.

Date:  13 October 

Time: 10:00-12:00

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Digital Assessments

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for understanding and skill in assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. This workshop focuses on digital assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Date: Wednesday 13 October

Time: 9:00 —11:00 am

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Digital Assessments

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for understanding and skill in assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. This workshop focuses on digital assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Date: Wednesday 13 October

Time: 13:00 —15:00 pm

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Using Canvas New Analytics to improve student engagement

In an online class we don’t receive feedback from our students in the same way that we do in a face-to-face class, so how do we know how our students are doing in an asynchronous learning environment? The Canvas New Analytics tool helps you see the interaction students are having with the course materials in your course on ulwazi. These analytics can help you identify which students may not be as engaged and allow you to reach out to those students. 

This webinar will look at how to:

• enable the new analytics tool
• view student page views and participation activity
• track average course grades using interactive graphs or tables
• message students who meet a certain criteria
• download student views and participation data

Date: 26 October

Time: 9:00-10:30

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Writing Winning Proposals

Discover, with the support of Dr Robin Drennan, Director for Research Development in the University Research Office, how to write a persuasive proposal for research funding. Having understood that every funder is contractually bound to deliver a return of some sort on the funds under their management, it is plain to see several ‘magical buttons’ that will get you funding. Some of these buttons are explicit but others are not. The trick is to find them. The workshop material also covers the differences between a research plan, a problem statement, rationale and motivation, and aims and objectives, all elements of typical proposals. The importance of selecting appropriate reviewers, leaving nothing to chance and the need to make every part of the proposal supportive of your bid for funding are also discussed. Finally, the workshop explores differences in writing styles: Persuasive writing used in proposals and standard writing techniques used in the publication of research outputs.

Date: 15 October 2021

Time: 09:00 - 13:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Zotero

This is a virtual workshop that will introduce you to Zotero, a free, open-source alternative to reference manager systems. Zotero allows you to easily save bibliographic details, comments, indexing terms, and direct links to webpages, word documents, and even articles that are in library subscription databases. You will be shown how you can use Zotero to integrate your references into your research in many citation styles using Microsoft Word. For more information, please visit Library Libguides. http://libguides.wits.ac.za/zotero

Date: 8 October 2021

Time: 9:30-11:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Postgraduate Supervision

Good supervision is central to successful graduate research, yet it is difficult to define and develop. This half-day introductory workshop explores models and systems of supervision, institutional policy and procedures, and supervisor-student relationships.

Date: 27 October  

Time: 8:30—13:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL)

As part of interrogating ‘good’ teaching practices—what programme quality enhancement could look like—this half-day workshop explores an overview of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) in Higher Education. It further outlines several suggestions through which SOTL may be established and scholarship improved. We invite you to come and share your thoughts, ideas, and practices on enhancing SOTL.

Date: 16 November 2021

Time: 9:00 - 12:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Digital Assessments

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for understanding and skill in assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. This workshop focuses on digital assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Date: 10 November

Time: 9:00 —11:00

Venue: Click here to join the meeting

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Digital Assessments

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In this context, ensuring alignment between course outcomes, content and assessment is important for curricular coherence, and contributes to the validity of assessments. Consequently, there is a need for academics to appreciate the role of assessment in student’s learning and to be able to design quality assessments for particular contexts. In addition to the need for understanding and skill in assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to understand and know how to develop different types of assessment in the online space. This workshop focuses on digital assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Date: 24 November

Time: 13:00 —15:00

Venue: Click here to join the meeting

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Postgraduate Supervision

Good supervision is central to successful graduate research, yet it is difficult to define and develop. This half-day introductory workshop explores models and systems of supervision, institutional policy and procedures, and supervisor-student relationships.

Date: 11 November  

Time: 8:30—13:00

Venue: Online (Meeting link will be e-mailed once bookings are confirmed)

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Using Canvas New Analytics to improve student engagement

In an online class we don’t receive feedback from our students in the same way that we do in a face-to-face class, so how do we know how our students are doing in an asynchronous learning environment? The Canvas New Analytics tool helps you see the interaction students are having with the course materials in your course on ulwazi. These analytics can help you identify which students may not be as engaged and allow you to reach out to those students. 

This webinar will look at how to:

• enable the new analytics tool
• view student page views and participation activity
• track average course grades using interactive graphs or tables
• message students who meet a certain criteria
• download student views and participation data

Date: 11 November

Time: 10:30-12:00

Click here to join the meeting

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