Technologies for Teaching (T4T)

Designing & building your course in ulwazi

This webinar will focus mainly on intentionally designing, building, and publishing your course site.

Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the session, you should be able to structure your course using the Modules function:

• Set up your homepage.

• Upload and manage your files.

• Add content to your course by o Building activities into a module. o Outlining your own outcomes

Wednesday, 22 February

Wednesday, 1 March

Wednesday, 15 March

12 July

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

Coordinators: Antoinette Malgas Antoinette.Malgas@wits.ac.za

Nkaba Senne Nkaba.Senne@wits.ac.za

Ms Zamalotshwa Mlotshwa Zamalotshwa.Mlotshwa@wits.ac.za

Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za

Conceptualize, Design, Build and Evaluate your ulwazi Course

So, you have been teaching during the pandemic for the past few years. Now you have a chance to meet with your students face to face again. How are you going to help them gain that engaged earning experience, so no one is left behind? This workshop is designed to help you plan, build, and evaluate your course taking into consideration grounded learning experience design principles. This includes prioritizing equity and inclusion in blended learning strategies.

To get the best out of this course, we recommend that you attend (Design and Develop your course in ulwazi) or are familiar with using ulwazi. To register for this course, please refer to the booking form in the table above.

Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

Week 1 – Plan

• Plan learning environments that intentionally accommodates the 3Cs (Communicate, Care, Collaborate) (F2F).

• Familiarize the concepts of 3Cs in a blended learning environment.

• Using QM rubric to assist you in planning an intentional learning environment.

Week 2 – Design

Design a learning environment that is aligned to your outcomes for engaging learning experience. Do they apply?

• Identify the importance of Storyboard and Curriculum Mapping (F2F).

• Demonstrate your intentional planning that accommodates the 3Cs by using the Curriculum Map (align with QM standards) (F2F/Online)

Week 3 & 4 - Build (2 sessions)

• Create your own lesson using given storyboard template or curriculum mapping.

• Refer to other courses (CR).

Week 5 - Evaluate and Reflect

Evaluate and reflect on your curriculum map and aligning to outcomes:

• Showcase the curriculum map

• Facilitators and participants give feedback.

• Self-evaluation by presenters.

Week 5: Thursday 17 August 10:00 12.30

Mode/Venue: Blended (One session per week over 5 weeks)

Coordinators: Antoinette Malgas Antoinette.Malgas@wits.ac.za

Nkaba Senne Nkaba.Senne@wits.ac.za

Ms Zamalotshwa Mlotshwa Zamalotshwa.Mlotshwa@wits.ac.za

Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za

Course Review: Through the Lens of a Learner

The COVID19 Pandemic sent learning and teaching into a whirlwind spin for both students and staff. This changed experience has left some academics with courses that were not designed to provide engaging, memorable learning experiences. Course Review: Through the Lens of a Learner is an asynchronous course that focuses on how educators/facilitators could enhance an online/blended course that would positively contribute to students’ online learning experience.

This course explores various strategies and frameworks that educators/facilitators could use to improve on an online/blended course design. To get the best out of this workshop, it is advisable to have your course site that you can review at the end of the workshop.

The content of this course is based on four supporting pillars that are essential to a well-designed online/blended course:

Pillar 1:

The initial learner experience: strategies on how to prepare and orientate students to the new “online” learning environment.

Pillar 2:

Guiding students and their learning: strategies how to provide frequent meaningful and relevant learning opportunities to establish a learning community.

Pillar 3:

Accessibility, design and usability: Get insight on Universal Design for Learning and techniques for creating accessible content

Pillar 4:

Course Evaluation: course participants will use the adapted Quality Matter Rubric to review their own online courses and develop a course improvement plan.

Mode/Venue:

Coordinators: Mr Shane Pachagadu shane.pachagadu@wits.ac.za

Ms Mei Luo Mei.Luo@wits.ac.za

Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za

Digital Tools for Assessment

Effective education involves the integration and alignment of three core systems, namely curriculum, learning and teaching, 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 authentic, valid assessment practices, more generally, there is a growing need to become familiar with technologies for use with assessments.

This workshop focuses on assessment in the field of Higher Education with special emphasis on assessment tools in ulwazi and other available platforms.

Session 1: Discussion & Assignment tool

• Discussion tool: o Setting up graded discussion topics. o Grading discussion topic using rubrics o Grading discussion topic using SpeedGrader.

• Assignment tool: o Setting up an Assignment link. o Setting up Peer review & group assignment. o Grading assignments using rubrics. o Grading assignments using Speedgrader. o Setting up assessment weighting linked to Gradebook.

Session 2: Quizzes (Quizzes tool & Studio)

• New quizzes o Setting up a quiz using various question types. o Setting up question banks. o Randomising from question banks. o Moderate function for grading, adjusting attempt and time limit. o Grading a Quiz (manual grading). o Re-grading a Quiz. o Releasing feedback.

• Studio tool o Embedding a quiz to a video. o Setting up an assignment with a quiz embedded video.

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Mode/Venue: Online

Coordinator: Ms Neo Petlele neo.petlele@wits.ac.za

Facilitators: Ms Neo Petlele neo.petlele@wits.ac.za

Antoinette Malgas antoinette.malgas@wits.ac.za

Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za

Using Gradescope in ulwazi

Gradescope is an assessment tool that allows lecturers to grade and provide feedback on handwritten paper-based student 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. The session will cover the following:

• How to create different question types in Gradescope

• How to enable your students to submit their work to Gradescope.

• How to grade assessments in Gradescope

• How to create rubric items

Mode/Venue: Online

Coordinator: Ms Neo Petlele neo.petlele@wits.ac.za

Facilitators: Ms Neo Petlele neo.petlele@wits.ac.za

Antoinette Malgas antoinette.malgas@wits.ac.za

Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za

Using Mastery Paths in ulwazi

Mastery Paths allows you to create differentiated assignments that would enable you to customise a learning pathway for your students based on their performance of a particular assessment. The learning pathway could consist of different Content Pages, Quizzes, Discussions and Assignments.

Mode/Venue: Online

Coordinator: Ms Neo Petlele neo.petlele@wits.ac.za

Facilitators: Ms Neo Petlele neo.petlele@wits.ac.za

Mr Shane Pachagadu shane.pachagadu@wits.ac.za

Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za

Intro to Conferences (“BigBlueButton”) in ulwazi

This webinar will focus on facilitating synchronous online learning interactions in ulwazi. Some of the topics that will be covered include:

• Accessing conferences

• Setting up online meeting spaces

• Facilitating synchronous learning in your course sites

Mode/Venue: Online

Facilitators: Ms Zamalotshwa Mlotshwa zamalotshwa.mlotshwa@wits.ac.za

Ms Nkaba Senne nkaba.senne@wits.ac.za

Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za

Creating engaging videos 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 S tudio

• Create videos using S tudio.

• Design and deliver assessments that are embedded directly in the video.

• Use studio analytics to improve learning.

June

Mode/Venue: Online

Facilitators: Ms Zamalotshwa Mlotshwa zamalotshwa.mlotshwa@wits.ac.za

Ms Neo Petlele Neo.petlele@wits.ac.za

Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za

Engaging approaches & strategies for facilitating learning

Have you ever been frustrated by the quiet whisperings of students in the background or students that simply do not engage during a lesson? These whisperings or non- responsiveness of students may be perceived as a distraction. One could however encourage these whisperings and draw on students to engage interactively by creating a safe and collaborative learning environment. Depending on your teaching approach, this could be done by the creative use of tools such as chat, discussion forums, emoticons, or voice participation. This workshop focuses on how we can use various educational technologies to meaningfully enhance student engagement in both synchronous and asynchronous learning and teaching environments.

5 June 19 June

4 September 15 September 10:00 11:30

Mode/Venue: Online

Facilitators: Ms Mei Luo mei.luo@wits.ac.za

Ms Antoinette Malgas antoinette.malgas@wits.ac.za

Contact: Instructional Design Support IDSupport.cltd@wits.ac.za