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Learning and Assessment Resources

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Task

Name ONE resource.

  • How does it contribute to the learning objectives?
  • How does it help you to meet a specific student's need?
  • How is that resource accessible?

Rate each of the following resources from 1 (not appropriate or suitable for your course/s or students) to 5 (very appropriate or suitable for your course/s or students):

Loom,Wordwall, Microsoft 365 Word, Voki, Padlet, Kahoot, Mentimeter, Microsoft Forms, Google Sites.

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Info

Educators must plan resources in advance.

The following examples show some of the resources which are commonly used for learning and assessment.

Click on the links to learn how to use these tools.

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Teams or Zoom

Padlet

Students record presentations and demos of skills. Assessors and students record feedback. Assessors upload link to video.

Set task, do task and get feedback via short videos, students can see each other’s videos and give peer video feedback.

Video

Info

How to use these tools, go to the following link:Tools

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Voki

Auto dictate your feedback on Google Docs and Slides (in Speaker Notes).

Students create an animated character to present a short response or give audio feedback. Max. 600 characters or 60 seconds. Example, Example

Audio

Info

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VLE Assignment

Turnitin

Google Docs

Set tasks which allow students to upload attachments. Give feedback against rubrics and from your personal bank of comments for quick marking.

Students get feedback against rubrics and from personal bank of comments for quick marking. Students see similarity scores and sources of possibly plagiarised elements.

Assess with ‘Comment’ in margin. Students reply for rich, relevant feedback.

  • Beginner
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced

Written

Info

How to use Turnitin, go to the following link:Tools

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Padlet

Padlet Play

Collaborative space to post multi media, peer evaluate, rate and comment. City of Glasgow College staff can access corporate account- see Learning Technologists for access.

Fun colourful digital post-its. Easy to use and access, from Google.

Boards

How to use Padlet, go to the following link:Tools

Info

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Kahoot Challenge

Quiz

Quick quizzes, results via graphs and sheets, Example Quiz

Beginner Intermediate Advanced

Asynchronous and student-paced. Set your own completion date. Results shared. Max 10, so use teams of students.

Google Slides

Poll in real time. Display results live as word clouds and graphs.

Poll in real time, to use during live Zoom teaching. Display anonymised results live.

Q &A function is a quiz tool. Student responses shown live.

Beginner Intermediate Advanced

Info

How to use Kahoot, go to the following link:Kahoot

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Google Sites

Student-owned, personal website. Assessor can provide a customisable template.

  • Beginner
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced

Turns Google Sheet into a personal, sharable app with live data.

Portfolio

These can also be used as free Virtual Learning Environment for short courses.

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Mobile devices

Consider the following:

  • Which essential ways do you use mobile tech which could be applicable to students’ learning?
  • How is mobile tech used effectively in your institution?
  • How will you use mobile devices in learning, teaching and assessment future?

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Info

Flipcharts

Educator can monitor live BUT Educator needs to tell students before they start to:

  • Write big
  • Write legibly (often inaccessibly illegible from a distance)
  • Use only black pens (to be read from a distance)
  • Take photo of the flipchart if they want to look back on it (or no permanent record for students to look back on)

Alternative to flipcharts

Go digital with a collaboration flipboard they can use on their own devices e.g.

  • Padlet
  • Google Docs
  • 365 Word Doc
  • Whiteboard

Educator can monitor live.

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Go Further

Student Created Resources

  • List resources you use in a learning session. Tick which could have been prepared by the students.
  • How you could have built student-creation of learning resources into the programme?
  • What other tasks could be based on these resources produced by students, in order to recycle the resources?

Sources and links

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