Education Futures’ third Roadshow event focused on The Future of Assessment, showcasing initiatives and a draft of the UNE Assessment Framework currently in development. If you weren’t able to attend or would like further information, you can catch up on the recording, collaboration and relevant resources in this post.
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.
Special Assessment is one of the important tools that students can use to mitigate the impact of life challenges on their study, and the project underway in Education Futures to redesign and uplift the application process is now supported by HEPPP funding.
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.
Because our students are humans, there are often situations in which students aren’t able to submit assessments by the due date or sit exams on time. UNE has a number of provisions in our Assessment Guidelines that help support student success – this post explains each of the provisions, how they’re accessed and some new initiatives to make things quicker and easier.
While the standard grade codes are straightforward, there are many other grade codes that perform other functions that aren’t always well understood. This post details the main areas of confusion to help facilitate a smooth and stress-free results release period each trimester.
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.
The formal exam period starts on Monday, 30th May with more than 8,000 students sitting just under 12,000 exams over the next two weeks. While our exam supervision provider offers extensive tech support for students, it is often anxiety or simple misunderstandings...
For those of you teaching into units which have exams starting in a few weeks, a critical issue is emerging. Less than 50% of exams have been built in the LMS, The deadline for the completion of this work was 29th April. Work to configure the exams in preparation for...
With the switch to online supervised exams, the “Past Exams Collections” Moodle site which contains copies of older paper exams for some units has become increasingly obsolete, which is why we phased out the collection and made it unavailable to students after T3/2021...