TEU Update April 17 2025
We are happy to announce that this workshop will be running again to support the high demand and interest in the topic.
Date: Wednesday, 30th April
Time: 2.00pm- 3.30pm
Format: Online. Register here.
This hands-on workshop will guide staff step by step in writing a GenAI Teaching Statement for an assessment, module or programme. The statement will provide clear guidance to students on the authorised and unauthorised use of GenAI. Participants will first review the purpose of a given assessment and then determine the extent to which GenAI can (or cannot) be used, based on a GenAI Assessment Scale (Perkins et al., 2024). They will further reflect to justify their choices regarding the allowed (or not allowed) use of GenAI by students, and also learn about different approaches to properly acknowledge the use of GenAI. Participants are expected to leave the session with a draft GenAI teaching statement they can integrate immediately in their assessment/ module/ program.
Should you have any questions, please contact samantha.xu@dcu.ie
Join us for thought-provoking and insightful conversation about innovative practice in healthcare education and international climate politics.
Date: Wednesday, April 30th
Time: 2pm (Online)
Featured Speakers:
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Dr Aoife Burke (School of Health & Human Performance) will explore the integration of AI-driven virtual patients in healthcare education, allowing students to practice clinical assessments with realistic, responsive AI simulations.
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Dr Danny Marks (School of Law and Government) will discuss the use of a simulation tool in a large class, focusing on an international negotiations (UNFCCC) simulation introduced in an undergraduate climate politics course.
Find out more about this Sipping Point session
Register for this online Sipping Point Session
On Monday 19th May, DCU will host a mini-symposium focusing on two important aspects of ESD:
- integrating ESD themes into modules; and
- using creative pedagogies to make connections between local and global issues.
Details will follow but the event will take place on the Glasnevin campus between 11am and 2pm. Lunch will be provided.
The event will also serve as a celebration for staff who have completed the NFTL Digital Badge ‘Introduction to Sustainability.’
Please register here.
You can review our recent “Go Go Loop Gradebook and Grades Transfer” workshop here on the Loop Staff Support Page. In the workshop, we help you setup your Loop Gradebook to ensure the correct grade visibility, weighting, and overall calculation of student coursework grades. We conclude with a demonstration of the Grades Transfer process to transfer student's Loop grades as their coursework total to the student information system, Banner. (Note: The Grades Transfer feature in Loop will be active once Registry opens Banner’s faculty grades entry.)
A comprehensive suite of resources on grading and Loop Gradebook are also available on the Loop Staff Support Page in the Assessment section.
The Loop Team is piloting an experimental quiz question generator that leverages an AI technology to create quiz questions in Loop based on simple prompts from the lecturer. This technology can both aid in the generation of quality quiz questions as well as streamline the process of populating quizzes in Loop, thus saving the lecturer the time of manual question creation. You can see an overview of how this simple-to-use tool works in this document.
Interested lecturers can respond via this form to express interest in using the generator feature.
On Thursday April 24th at 2 p.m. Professor Charlotte Norrman from Linköping University will present the issue of Doing Challenge Based Learning with Large Numbers. To attend, please register and a meeting link will be forwarded.
In these events, participants follow the Reflective Team approach: a ‘Presenter’ illustrates a sticky issue and asks the “Team” for help with a specific question; the “Team” reflect on the case, sharing their own experiences, making suggestions for actions and concrete proposals to address the issue, the Presenter listens but does not join in the discussion; during the “Debrief” the Presenter identifies which proposals they might implement in their next CBL experience.
If you require assistance or guidance with teaching and learning or Loop related matters, avail of the below methods.
Support for technical issues
For Loop technical queries, go to help.dcu.ie. You can also attend one of our regular online Loop drop in clinics, details in the TEU calendar. The drop in clinics are particularly useful for more complex queries. The Loop Staff Support Page also provides a comprehensive range of resources on Loop and Zoom. For new users, the enrolment key for this page is ‘staff’.
Advice on using technology for Teaching and Learning
If you are looking for advice on developing your teaching practice, including but not limited to the application of technology, please contact the TEU team teaching.enhancement@dcu.ie. We will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible.
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