UNE recently announced a renewed partnership with ProctorU (and parent company Meazure Learning) to provide online supervision services for examinations – here’s a quick overview of the why, the how and the where to from here.
OLX Update – December 2022
The year is very rapidly coming to an end, and the compressed exam period for T3 occurs pretty quickly after we all get back from a well-deserved break. Thank you to everyone who has been working with the Exams & eAssessment team, the Learning Design team, and our...
T2 Assessment Wrapup
With results released to students yesterday, the T2 assessment period has now concluded, capping off an intense and productive few months focused on transforming assessment at UNE. This post is a quick review of the trimester that was.
Important information for T3 OLX
In March this year, following a request to expand the time between Trimester 3 2022 and Trimester 1 2023, Council approved an amendment to the 2022 Principal Dates. This is a quick overview of the associated change to the assessment period.
T2 Exams Period – Keep calm and reach out
The formal exam period for T2 commences on Monday 26th September – in this post we share key contacts and messaging help students (and staff!) have a smooth and low-stress experience.
Webinar: Online Exam Marking & Releasing Grades
Come join us on Tuesday 27th September, 11am, for a tour of all things exam marking. The session will focus on OLX, but will be very useful for anyone undertaking marking of any Moodle quiz style task as well – welcome to all! Sign up for the session here:...
International recognition for OLX at UNE
Kylie Day and Sarah Thorneycroft were recently featured in US podcast ‘The Score’, talking about the design and implementation of OLX at UNE.
Rich media assessment: taking digital assessment to the next level
Digital assessments like OLX offer some key opportunities for assessment practice that aren’t possible in paper-based examinations, such as the integration of rich media. The DigEd team have recently collaborated to produce an exemplar rich media exam to showcase some of the possibilities.
An Integrated Approach to Online Exams in T2, 2022
One of the core workstreams of the OLXi project is designing an integrated, team-based approach to supporting and managing online exams, to embed OLX as part of UNE’s next-generation online learning ecosystem. The new process has been launched and the first iteration will be trialed in T2 2022.
OLX wrap up – T1/2022
The Trimester 1 exam period has concluded with just over 10,000 supervised exams held, more than 3,350 special assessment applications processed and a high satisfaction rate.