April 17, 2023 Student Authors and AI Writing Tools Reading Time: 4 minutes Review ideas for encouraging students to see where and how their voice matters in course-related writing in the age of AI writing tools. Categories Artificial Intelligence in Teaching/Assessing Learning/Generative AI and Assessment/Teaching Comments: 0
March 17, 2023 Best Practices for Open Book Testing Reading Time: 4 minutes Are you ready to refresh the assessments in your synchronous or online asynchronous courses? As you weigh the option of an open-book test, this teaching tip will provide best practices and considerations for creating the most effective open-book assessment possible. Categories Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching Comments: 0
December 20, 2022 Assessment Types Reading Time: 6 minutes Conestoga provides students with a wide range of assessment types. This tip describes the goals for choosing evaluation types, explains how discrete assessments fall within... Categories Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Lesson and Course Planning
December 5, 2022 Adding Video or Audio Feedback to Assignments Reading Time: 5 minutes On average, students will likely review the feedback you offer in your assignments as many as three times (Anson et al., 2016). Yet, to many... Categories Assessing Learning/eConestoga/Rubrics and Marking/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching/Tech For Teaching
November 23, 2022 Oral Assessments: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Considerations Reading Time: 6 minutes This tip discusses factors to consider when deciding whether to add an oral exam as a course assessment. Categories Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching
July 15, 2022 Pathway – Helping Students to Understand Assignments in Your Course Reading Time: < 1 minutes This learning pathway video introduces new faculty to some important ideas and considerations for ensuring that their students understand the assignments in their course. Helpful... Categories Assessing Learning/New Faculty/Teaching
June 29, 2022 Pathway – Marking Assignments in eConestoga Reading Time: < 1 minutes View this video introduction to the learning path to better understand how to access and grade assessments in eConestoga. Additional Resources After you’ve viewed this... Categories Assessing Learning/New Faculty/Teaching
May 10, 2022 Options for Delivering Feedback Reading Time: 3 minutes By Joel Beaupre and Jesslyn Wilkinson Try some of these strategies to effectively create and share feedback online. Many of these strategies can be used... Categories Assessing Learning/eConestoga/Giving Feedback/Rubrics and Marking/Teaching/Tech For Teaching
April 14, 2022 Writing Assignment Descriptions Reading Time: < 1 minutes Evaluation is a key part of teaching. But, when it comes to assignments, what information should you include? How much information is too much? And... Categories Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides/Creating Assessments/Teaching
November 24, 2021 Supporting Marked Group Writing Assignments Reading Time: 6 minutes Prepared by the Teaching & Learning team, this tip provides advice to faculty supporting collaborative group writing assignments, including reports and papers, as well as... Categories Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Group Work/Improving Assessments/Teaching
