Digital Assessment Upcoming Training Webinars

The Digital Assessment Team in LTDS have various training webinars covering our Digital Assessment tools starting in the next few weeks.

You can check out the full list of sessions, dates/times and the links to book in our list of sessions.

Inspera Digital Exams

Inspera for Professional Service colleagues

6 November 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Creating and managing exam questions in Inspera

2 October 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

7 November 2024, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Marking an Inspera exam with auto marked questions

16 December 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

22 January 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Marking and moderating an Inspera exam with manually marked questions

17 December 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

23 January 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Digital Assignments: Canvas and Turnitin

Creating and Managing Digital Assignments

2 October 2024, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Online Marking & Feedback (Canvas)

4 December 2024, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Online marking and feedback (Turnitin)

11 December 2024, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Reducing Contract Cheating – International Opportunities For Action Webinar

Turnitin have organised an interactive webinar on contract cheating, presented by Dr. Thomas Lancaster and Dr. Irene Glendinning.

The webinar will discuss contract cheating, including recent developments in the contract cheating industry and consider why we need to take action to address contract cheating.

The webinar will launch the fourth International Day of Action against Contract Cheating, which takes place on October 16, 2019, and provide opportunities for you to make suggestions and ask questions about the event.

The first webinar will be on Wednesday 14th August at 11:00 British Summer Time.  Register here.

The second webinar will be on Monday 16th September 14:00. Register here.

Anyone interested is most welcome to join.

 

5 things we learnt at ALT North East

ALT North-East held its first meeting under its new title  on Tuesday 27 February 2018.

Colleagues from HE and FE across the North East met at Newcastle University  to hear a number of presentations from Turnitin, Durham University, Northumbria University and Newcastle University.

1. Turnitin is changing to meet new and existing needs

Jamie Whitehead, Account Manager, Turnitin, informed the group of a recent consultation Turnitin had carried out and ran through some of the  key themes important to stakeholders which were: reliability, data access, marking & moderation, assessment workflows and integrations, customer relations, ghost writing, and future requirements.  Continue reading “5 things we learnt at ALT North East”