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News 5 September 2024

Team News – Foundation Studies

We are delighted to announce that Professor Colin Steele has been appointed as the new Discipline Head of Education (DHoE) for the Foundation Studies Programme from 1st August 2024 for a period of three years. Colin takes over from Dr Jonathan Sly, who has held the DHoE role for the past 5 years.

Dr Jo Cartwright has also been appointed as Head of Foundation Studies from 1st August 2024. Jo takes over from Professor Andy Weightman.

But do you know who the Foundation Studies Team are..?

Case Studies 28 June 2024

Developing students as innovators

This case study looks at the importance of innovation and how peer action learning and peer evaluation, can benefits students.

Assessment & Marking 25 June 2024

Using Gradescope to Autograde programming assignments

Case Study: How Computer Sciences are using Gradescope to autograde programming assignments.

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Teaching Tools 12 June 2024

Canvas Essentials: Quizzes

This article will compare Canvas Quizzes to Blackboard Tests. This is not intended to be a training piece; it is an overview of the features, giving you some ideas on how Canvas compares to Blackboard. Quizzes can be created in Canvas to support assessment and feedback. Quizzes can be used for formative and summative assessments […]

Teaching Tools 22 May 2024

Canvas Essentials: Groups

A short summary of how to use Groups in Canvas

Professional Development 16 May 2024

Teaching Focused – Community of Practice

One of the key aims of the Teaching Academy is to promote good teaching practice, In this article, Martin Simmons, from the discipline of Civil Engineering, explains a little bit more about the purpose of the Teaching Focused Community of Practice.

Teaching Tools 1 May 2024

What is Slate?

Slate is a new course unit information management system, intended to replace the existing course unit information publishing system called CUIP. Designed and developed in FSE by James Marsh and Steve Pettifer.

Teaching Support 27 April 2024

Teaching Excellence Development Fund

The Teaching Excellence Development Fund offers funding to all those involved in teaching to promote and develop ‘teaching excellence’ work, including academic staff, PS staff, and GTAs.

Teaching Tools 17 April 2024

Canvas Essentials: Gradebook

Like Blackboard, Canvas has its own tool for storing and managing student grades and feedback. This article will compare the Canvas Gradebook to Blackboard.