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Follow-up Workshops from 2021 CASS Teaching and Learning Showcase
The 2021 CASS Teaching and Learning Showcase was a great success – thank you to everyone who attended! You can now watch all videos on our website (view recordings here). Following conversations from the showcase, we have scheduled workshops open to all: 1. Team-Based Learning (TBL): 3 November 2021, 2.00 – 3.30pm Dr Ashley Carruthers…
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Audios for feedback, marking and personalising – Cheat Sheet
Marking with audio One of the greatest discoveries I made when I was teaching was the ability to transform essay type assessment in audio files. A well written paper is also well read, so when I was teaching and I had a lot of marking but also a long commute home I would put my “read aloud” assignments on my…
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Let’s talk about audio
It is not a coincidence that in the last few years anything “audio” has become big business, from audiobooks, to podcast, to voice assistant technology with smart devices that you can control just using your voice. On your Microsoft Office documents you can engage dictate and pronto you can have text written just by talking,…
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Online with feelings
While at ANU the focus is on “on campus” teaching, with the pandemic still unfolding and the uncertainty that this is bringing, thinking about the role of online learning is something we all need to keep in the back of our minds and ready to get “on the go” at any time. No matter what will happen in the next…
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Online …with feelings – Cheat Sheet
One more cheat sheet to provide some guidance in our teaching during this pandemic. If you have been reading the Blended Learning cheat sheet you will know that one clever way to gradually move from face-to-face to online is to adopt a blended approach first and find your feet before launching online. However, during Covid the reality has been that for many moving online was neither a planned nor calculated exercise, it…
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Navigating within the course site
Navigation menu (Hamburger icon) The navigation menu in the top left corner allows you to navigate from one Wattle page to another, and/or within a course site. The menu can be collapsed and expanded by clicking on the hamburger icon. See screenshot below: When expanded in a Wattle site, you can navigate to different parts…
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Dashboard – Finding your Wattle Sites
The dashboard is where you land in first, once you have logged into Wattle. It gives you an overview of all the Wattle sites you have access to. To access a site/course, click on a course name/link. See example below: You can sort your sites based on whether the courses are in session or not by clicking on the dropdown menu located on…
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CASS Wattle Template
This year the EDS team is launching a Wattle Template to facilitate the use of Wattle across CASS. The idea of the template is to provide a ready–made structure that can be populated with resources, information, assessment, etc. to suit your particular needs. One of the most common feedback we receive from students using Wattle is…
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I Need a Whiteboard
Teaching online and whiteboards Quite often shifting from face to face to online also requires finding ways to recreate certain activities or teaching practices that can seem difficult away from the classical classroom setting. Using whiteboards is one of those things. Sometimes you really need a whiteboard to explain something or share some ideas and despite the…
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Advanced Zoom
Zoom more features for you to explore For those already familiar with the basic Zoom functions this cheat sheet will explore some tools and settings you can use for your teaching for more advanced use. Firstly, it is important to understand that certain features (like polls, virtual background, file sharing, etc.) need to be enabled…
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