{"id":7434,"date":"2023-09-14T17:29:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T16:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/?p=7434"},"modified":"2023-09-14T17:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T16:29:59","slug":"meet-the-digital-exams-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2023\/09\/14\/meet-the-digital-exams-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Digital Exams Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the new 2023-24 academic year begins, we\u2019d like to introduce the Digital Exams Team here in LTDS, who lead on the University\u2019s Digital Exams via Inspera. A team of Learning Enhancement and Technology Advisers work together to facilitate digital exams through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/digital-technologies\/inspera\/\">Inspera Assessment.<\/a> Inspera Assessment is the University\u2019s Digital Exam system used for present-in-person secure online assessments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\">Meet the Team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:54% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"196\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2023\/09\/Maddie-Kinnair.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7435 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2023\/09\/Maddie-Kinnair.png 196w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2023\/09\/Maddie-Kinnair-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2023\/09\/Maddie-Kinnair-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>First up we\u2019ve got <strong>Maddie Kinnair<\/strong> who is one of our two Inspera Co-Leads. Maddie joined the team in September 2022 and has worked within the area of Learning and Teaching for 6 years. Maddie first joined HE in 2014 and has previously worked in the School of Computing, HaSS Faculty and within Central Services. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Maddie is also the lead for our peer assessment and feedback tool <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/digital-technologies\/buddycheck\/\">Buddycheck<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:44px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"193\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2023\/09\/Kimberley-MayOBrien.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7436 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-normal-font-size\">Next up, we\u2019ve got <strong>Kimberly May-O&#8217;Brien<\/strong>, our second Inspera Co-Lead. Kimberly joined the team in July 2023, having worked at the University since 2019. Kimberly previously worked in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, as well as the central Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:60% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"356\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2023\/09\/Susan-Barfield-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7447 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2023\/09\/Susan-Barfield-2.png 356w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2023\/09\/Susan-Barfield-2-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">Finally, we have <strong>Susan Barfield<\/strong> who started working at the University 13 years ago, initially in NUIT as part of the ReCap team, she then joined LTDS in 2019 as lead on online marking and feedback using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/effective-practice\/assessment\/digital-assessment\/\">Canvas and Turnitin<\/a>, whilst also supporting digital exams.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\">More Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find out more about Inspera and the training webinars and videos available to colleagues via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/digital-technologies\/inspera\/\">LTDS website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any queries around Digital Exams, you can contact the Digital Exams Team via <a href=\"mailto:Digital.Exams@newcastle.ac.uk\">Digital.Exams@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Numbas is the other centrally supported Digital Exam platform. You can contact the Numbas team via <a href=\"mailto:Numbas@ncl.ac.uk\">Numbas@ncl.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the new 2023-24 academic year begins, we\u2019d like to introduce the Digital Exams Team here in LTDS, who lead on the University\u2019s Digital Exams via Inspera. A team of Learning Enhancement and Technology Advisers work together to facilitate digital exams through Inspera Assessment. Inspera Assessment is the University\u2019s Digital Exam system used for present-in-person &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2023\/09\/14\/meet-the-digital-exams-team\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meet the Digital Exams Team&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,677,12,655,701,708,394,1,17],"tags":[653],"class_list":["post-7434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment-feedback","category-buddycheck","category-des","category-tech","category-effective-practice","category-inspera","category-numbas","category-other","category-turnitin","tag-digital-exams-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7434"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7539,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions\/7539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}