On-demand Workshops

Gamification has become a buzzword in education and training in the last few years. The use of active and social games has the potential to introduce more achievement, title and rewards-based concepts to the learning experience. Applying these and similar techniques to a course takes some thought and planning. It is now easier than ever in Loop to implement some aspects of gamification using the features released over the last few versions. This session will demonstrate the application of some gamification techniques to a Loop course including Leader boards, Social Rating, Badges and Rankings.

Managing assignments can be very time consuming and cumbersome tasks. Typical questions a lecturer is faced with: Have all the students made a submission? Did everybody submit before the deadline? how can I give feedback to all of my students in a practical way? Furthermore continuous assessment may result in you having to weight assessments differently, thereby creating the headache of converting the actual grade from each assignment into a percentage of the students final mark towards their exam. This session will show staff how to simply get Loop to solve all of those problems. The session is aimed towards lecturing staff. By the end of this session participants will be able to: embed rubrics and marking guides into their assignments within Loop track all of their assignment submissions use Loop gradebook to manage all of the grades and their associated weighting know how to import your marks directly into the anonymous marking tables within ITS.

Peer assessment is the assessment of student work by other students. It has been recognised that engaging students in peer assessment can help them in learning to evaluate their own learning and in interpreting assessment criteria. Further benefits might also include: increasing feedback to students; reducing marking loads for staff; giving students a sense of ownership of the assessment process; encouraging students to be more involved and take more responsibility for their learning; encouraging critical analysis of student work, so students see beyond a mark/grade. However, one of the main disadvantages is the administration side of peer assessment from a lecturers point fo view; allocating peers to each of the students and collating the assessment grades and feedback. Moodle provides a peer assessment feature called "workshop" that addresses this disadvantage by simplifying the entire process. This webinar will explain the workshop feature and address some frequently asked questions on how you can best manage peer assessment through Moodle.

Have you ever heard complaints from students about courses being “too long” and that there is “too much to read”? Would you like to know how you can potentially reduce the volume of information in your lectures - and still ensure that students leave your class with an understanding of the key points? Would you like to know how using a story structure might help you pare back to the course essentials in an interesting and effective way?

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these, then check out the Teaching Enhancement Unit’s 'Pedagogy in Practice' workshop to learn about strategies that can help you potentially craft more engaging learning experiences. This practical one-hour session will focus on some ideas for creating engaging learning that can applied to any discipline. It is aimed towards lecturing staff and any other interested individuals.

This seminar will build on research and projects conducted by the National Forum as part of the Assessment Theme – particularly the value of and mechanisms for developing assessment for and as learning. Additionally, it will draw on work produced by DCU TEU (Teaching Enhancement Unit) as part of an Erasmus+ funded project. As part of this project a resource toolkit for academics was developed to support academics design assessments that actively encourage academic integrity. The suite of resources in the toolkit includes a literature review publication; a set of twelve principles and related explanations; interactive glossary; self and team checklists; animated scenarios; VLE instructional resource; and a collection of case studies. The aim of this seminar is to use the toolkit to stimulate discussion and reflection with a view to reviewing and informing practices to promote academic integrity in assessment design. In addition, this forum will be used to explore mechanisms for student engagement and involvement in promoting and enhancing academic integrity. This is an essential life skill necessary for the graduate, the industry they enter, and society in general.

The aim of this hands on workshop is to introduce staff to Loop video. Loop Video, powered by Unicam is a facility within Loop to help you manage the use of video within your classroom. Whether it is a case of you wanting to easily share a video with your students or allow your students to share videos with you - Loop video is built to manage all classroom scenarios.