Events

22/01/2025 3:30 pm

Learning Analytics Dashboard Workshop

The Learning Analytics Dashboard provides an interactive, historical, personalized, and analytical monitoring display that reflects students’ learning pattern, status, performance, and engagement. In this session, you will be introduced to the different features of Learning Analytics Dashboard that allow you to see students’ demographics, how students are engaging with the different course content available, class performance in assessment, as well as identifying students who are maybe at-risk. Lastly, you will also see how the Learning Analytics Dashboard look like for the students.

Open to NUS Staff and Students

22/01/2025 3:00 pm

Navigating the AI Odyssey in Higher Education

Join Dr Mohamed Fadhil & Dr Jurgen Rudolph as they explore the opportunities and threats of GenAI in higher education. [Registration closed due to overwhelming response]

Open to NUS Staff and Students

16/01/2025 3:30 pm

Learning Analytics Dashboard Workshop

The Learning Analytics Dashboard provides an interactive, historical, personalized, and analytical monitoring display that reflects students’ learning pattern, status, performance, and engagement. In this session, you will be introduced to the different features of Learning Analytics Dashboard that allow you to see students’ demographics, how students are engaging with the different course content available, class performance in assessment, as well as identifying students who are maybe at-risk. Lastly, you will also see how the Learning Analytics Dashboard look like for the students.

Open to NUS Staff and Students

10/01/2025 10:00 am

Peer Feedback: Empowering Students, Supporting Faculty

This session delves into peer feedback as a sustainable practice in higher education, examining its potential to enhance learning experiences while alleviating the feedback burden on faculty. Drawing insights from our focus group discussions with students, we will explore the socio-affective factors—such as relationship dynamics and trust—that emerge during peer feedback activities. Our multidisciplinary learning community will also share strategies for integrating peer feedback into courses, addressing these socio-affective challenges while fostering student accountability and skill development. Join us as we reflect on our observations, explore practical solutions, and consider the broader implications of peer feedback for teaching and learning in higher education.

Open to NUS Staff and Students

09/01/2025 2:30 pm

Personalising Learning in Action: Using Canvas Mastery Paths

Imagine education as a tailored suit. In traditional classrooms, students often receive a “one-size-fits-all” approach. Personalised learning transforms this experience by tailoring learning content and pace to align with each student's unique needs, interests and abilities. In this interactive 1.5-hour workshop, you will explore the potential of implementing personalised learning through Canvas Mastery Paths, which enables instructors to automatically adjust coursework based on student progress and performance, optimising the learning experience through differentiated instruction.

Open to NUS Staff and Students

08/01/2025 2:00 pm

Scoring in ExamSoft

ExamSoft is a digital assessment system that manages the entire lifecycle of both high and low stakes Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) assessments for the entire NUS student population. Its core functions include question banking and blueprinting, assessment authoring, delivery and monitoring, as well as scoring and reporting capabilities. Additionally, the ExamID and ExamMonitor proctoring service can be used to facilitate remote assessments. This workshop is the second in a two-part series. The topics covered in this workshop include: Adjusting scoring after an assessment Online grading Points or rubrics Setup graders Essay grading Check grading progress 3. ExamSoft reports Summary Report Item Analysis Category Reports Strengths and Opportunities 4. Releasing results to students 5. Exporting marks for IMMS 6. Remote proctoring ExamID ExamMonitor  7. Q & A

Open to NUS Staff and Students

08/01/2025 10:00 am

Creating Canvas Assignments: From Design to Feedback

Assessment is a key driver of student learning—how and what students learn is shaped by how they think they will be assessed. This workshop focuses on the design of assignments in Canvas, emphasizing the role of assessment in motivating deeper learning and improving student learning outcomes. You’ll learn how to create well-designed assignment tasks that clearly communicate expectations, promote self-directed learning, and provide meaningful opportunities for practice and feedback. We’ll also explore how to use rubrics for grading, ensuring your assessments are not just a measure of achievement but tools that foster ongoing improvement.  

Open to NUS Staff and Students

07/01/2025 2:00 pm

Getting Started with ExamSoft

ExamSoft is a digital assessment system that manages the entire lifecycle of both high and low stakes Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) assessments for the entire NUS student population. Its core functions include question banking and blueprinting, assessment authoring, delivery and monitoring, as well as scoring and reporting capabilities. Additionally, the ExamID and ExamMonitor proctoring service can be used to facilitate remote assessments. This workshop is the first in a two-part series. The topics covered in this workshop include: ExamSoft overview 1. Examplify demo 2. ExamSoft portal: Accessing the ExamSoft portal Setting default question folder Creating questions Bulk importing questions Question tagging with categories Creating an assessment with questions Previewing an assessment using Examplify Posting an assessment for your students 4. On the exam day Releasing exam password Monitoring downloads and submissions Editing posting settings Contacting technical support 5. Q & A

Open to NUS Staff and Students

07/01/2025 10:00 am

Building a Well-designed Canvas Course

Building a well-designed Canvas course is about more than aesthetics—it's about creating a learning environment that fosters student success and engagement. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll apply the key principles of effective course design and incorporate Chickering and Gamson's Seven Principles of Good Practice to further enhance your course. By the end of this workshop, you'll walk away with practical strategies to build a Canvas course that is learner-oriented, pedagogically sound, and keeps students engaged and aligned with course learning outcomes from start to finish. 

Open to NUS Staff and Students

06/01/2025 3:00 pm

Poll Everywhere Workshop

Poll Everywhere is a classroom response system tool that assist in class participation. With Poll Everywhere, instructors are able to pose questions and receive immediate responses from students in class. In this session, you will be introduced to the different activity types available in Poll Everywhere, how to create and present these activities (both from PowerPoint or directly from the website), see how students would respond to a Poll Everywhere activity, learn how to export the report, as well as options to track students’ responses.

Open to NUS Staff and Students

15/10/2024 12:00 am

Key Takeaways from the 2024 Educator-in-Residence Programme (EiRP 2024)

In September 2024, the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology (CTLT) had the privilege of hosting Professor Peter Felten, the 2024 Educator-in-Residence (EiR) Scholar from Elon University. Professor Felten’s visit featured a series of thought-provoking events, including a public lecture, interactive workshops, a student dialogue, and conversations with faculty and students. These sessions provided valuable insights into fostering meaningful connections in higher education, especially in an era shaped by AI, trust, and well-being. Key themes from his engagements included the importance of quality relationships in student success, the power of peer connections, and the potential for AI to transform learning environments. Professor Felten’s insights urged educators to rethink how technology can be integrated meaningfully, emphasizing that AI should serve the broader goals of education—trust, relationships, and learning.

Open to NUS Staff and Students

05/12/2024 8:30 am

IMAGINE AI 2024 – Towards Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence

Co-organised with NUS, bringing experts together to advance healthcare through AI-driven innovation and collaboration, training AI with datasets to solve real world healthcare problems, join clinicians and data experts on 5 - 6 Dec for the IMAGINE AI 2024 Expo.

Open to Public

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