Late last year a number of priority areas were identified as key opportunities to transition OLX from an implementation response to integrated effective assessment practice and the OLXi (Integrated approach to OLX) project was launched to take action.
Co-design for new ways of working
Redesigning business processes and the ways that we work can be a challenge. DigEd and Integrated Services recently hosted a co-design workshop bringing stakeholders across the university together to begin collaboratively working towards developing new procedures and practices for Special Assessment at UNE.
OLX Year in Review: 2021
2021 was a significant year for online exams (OLX) at UNE, representing the first year of OLX as our standard business practice. We also saw Time for Change bring the Exams and eAssessment team into the Digital Education portfolio, alongside the Learning Design,...
The OLX Experience #2 – Understanding Privacy
The OLX Experience is a new series of posts designed to help shed light on aspects of online examinations and facilitate a strong shared understanding of OLX at UNE. This post focuses on privacy and data integrity in OLX.
“Past Exam Papers” Moodle site will be phased out at the end of T3
With the switch to online supervised exams, the “Past Exams Collections” Moodle site which contains copies of older paper exams for some units is becoming increasingly obsolete. We will phase out the collection and make it unavailable to students before on...
Tip: Reasons why students can’t see their assignment feedback
Have you been contacted by a student who is having difficulty accessing grades or feedback for an assessment? There can be a few reasons for this. Read on for tips on what to check and how to advise your students! 1: Student is using the OpenLMS...
The OLX Experience – Understanding Proctoring
The OLX Experience is a new series of posts designed to help shed light on aspects of online examinations and facilitate a strong shared understanding of OLX at UNE. Our first post in the series covers proctoring – live supervision of exams.
Phasing out of the Past Exams Collection in Moodle
With the switch to online supervised exams, the "Past Exams Collections" Moodle site which contains copies of older paper exams for some units is becoming increasingly obsolete. We are planning to phase out the collection and make it unavailable to students before...
OLX update
If you are looking at running an online supervised exam in T2 and haven’t yet built it, please make sure you do that soon. So far only a quarter of exams (that we know of) have been set up. If you have not already done so, please add the necessary content to your exam...
Leading the sector in online exams
UNE began implementing online examinations (OLX) in 2017 – well ahead of the mass pivot of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on our expertise as Australia’s leading online university, we have developed an approach that uses the affordances of digital platforms to meet student needs and maximise student experience.