Built Environments Learning + Teaching

A new Pedestal 3D guide is now available on the BEL+T Guides page. Pedestal 3D is an online 3D object management and sharing system, ideal for use in learning and teaching curricula that rely on 3D file sharing to deliver content. The ABP Library has recently acquired a licence for Pedestal 3D that can be used within the faculty.

During peak assessment periods, some students have submitted altered/forged medical documentation as part of their request for extensions in recent times. ABP’s Academic Support Office (ASO) recently emailed Subject Coordinators about this issue.

In their most recent article Learning Environments presents frameworks and strategies for integrating effective feedback into subject design and activities, with the aim of achieving high quality self-regulated learning for students and maximising time efficiencies for teaching staff.

Writing for Edutopia, Samantha Pack reflects on the strategies she employed during remote teaching that she plans to carry forward to face-to-face environments. Her objectives on "differentiated instruction and increased student agency," although derived from a high school context, are applicable to higher education.

By now staff will have selected their digital exam format. Learning Environments have now updated resources to assist teaching staff prepare their exams.

Students can now access study spaces across campus for online lectures and tutorials. Staff may wish to advise their students of these spaces.

This posting from Stanford University describes an approach that enhances online interaction between teachers and students in ways that could empower enhanced virtual learning beyond the pandemic.

On Thursday April 1, BEL+T hosted Session 2 of ABP Teaching Tricks + Tips with specific advice for Giving students (quality) feedback. A big thank you again to Anna Hooper, Dhanika Kumaheri, Joel Benichou and Katie Skillington for sharing some great strategies.Log into the ABP Teaching Canvas Community (https://catalog.lms.unimelb.edu.au/browse/communities/courses/abp-teaching) to access the slides that were presented, and a summary of the highlights.

Writing for "The Faculty Lounge", Prof. Esther Rosbrook shares three strategies to support struggling students. The article gives insight on how educators are in the "business of helping, and not failing people". Finding the right way to help students can make all the difference.

The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) is a not-for-profit professional association for those engaged in the educational use of technologies in tertiary education.

BEL+T and Learning Environments are collaborating to deliver a workshop series that will help you develop your recording and editing skills using the ABP microstudio and other resorces available.

Learning Environments recently spoke to several of the staff across the University about their experiences of using Perusall. Read the responses here:https://le.unimelb.edu.au/news/articles/Using-Perusall-to-make-subject-readings-interactive-and-engagingPerusall is a tool in which an online reading can become a social and interactive experience for students. The reading becomes a collaborative document, in which students can annotate, ask each other questions and up-vote others' ideas. Teachers can add prompts, answer queries, and add quiz questions.

To help staff identify when a subject has 'concluded', there is a now a visual indication on the Subject Settings page of the subject. This visual is designed to help identify more easily when a subject has concluded, meaning the subject end date has passed and the subject is now in read-only mode for staff and students. The ‘Managing subjects’ section on the FAQ page has further information showing what a subject's Settings page will look like when concluded, as well as additional questions around subject, merge and community conclusions.

The University of Melbourne has made a Padlet Backpack license available to staff, which allows for unlimited padlet wall creation and posts, compared to the free (Basic) version which only supports creating 3 padlet walls. The only restriction to our license is a 250MB file upload limit per individual post, with unlimited posts.

Writing for Harvard Business Publishing, Sharon Ravitch presents a set of "equitable teaching" strategies she has identified through her academic development work around "flux pedagogy" and racial literacy training. She emphasises that this kind of work takes time, and therefore demands patience and a "practice mindset" that we can model for our students. In the end, Dr Ravitch argues, "It’s important we care, and create caring environments in which our students can speak and be heard."

With the new semester started, this Conversation piece describes five practical actions that educators can use to build good rapport with their students online.

Writing for Edutopia.org, Samantha Shane shares five strategies for using virtual breakout rooms to build students' sense of belonging.  Although written with secondary students in mind, the strategies can easily be translated to the higher education context.To read A Better Breakout Room Experience for Students go to:https://www.edutopia.org/article/better-breakout-room-experience-students

This week, it has been terrific to welcome new and returning sessional colleagues to a new semester – either online or on-campus (or a combination). Find out more here about what they have been doing (and what is coming up) and please do share with sessional staff in your subject.

In this post for Harvard's Faculty Lounge, Supriya Munshaw shares strategies for generating the two forms of enthusiasm essential for quality learning experiences.

BEL+T is happy to announce that the ABP Microstudio is now open and available for academics to use.

Follow the latest advise from Learning Environments on lecture recordings for online learning.

The Learning Environments guide is now available for Students and educators. There are some responsibilities listed for both staff and students. If you are returning to campus, please make sure both you and your students are aware any relevant responsibilities.

View the latest notable feature releases, updates, and integrations that have been deployed in Canvas at the University of Melbourne, as well as known and resolved issues.

If you thinking about using a new learning technology for Semester 1 2021, Learning Environments are now taking requests to integrate learning tools into Canvas.

Throughout the world, COVID-19 health regulations have made the on-campus lecture mostly defunct. And most Australian universities won’t be offering on-campus lectures in 2021.The Australasian Council on Open, Distance and e-Learning (ACODE) recently published a white paper on lectures, based on survey responses from 43 member universities (91% response rate). About two-thirds indicated they would not be conducting on-campus lectures this year.

In this brief article Michael Healy makes the argument that overlaps between career development, professional practice and academics can have a positive impact on graduate employability - within a pedagogical framework

This new guide outlines practical issues related to Dual Delivery for teaching and subject coordination in ABP in 2021. Dual Delivery subjects include two modes of learning: entirely ‘online’ and ‘blended’ (which combines on-campus and online learning experiences). In the UoM approach, students will enrol in one learning mode or the other for each of their Dual Delivery subjects.

BEL+T is putting the final touches to our BEL+T Guide for Dual Delivery. This will be available next week. Matching updates to the Moving Online pages will also be provided.For general advice in the meantime, Learning Environments have provided some practical ideas for tackling the dual delivery conundrum this semester that may help you reorganise some of that subject content for online students and blended students

BEL+T members Pippa Soccio, Kate Tregloan and James Thompson's article, titled 'Well-Coordinated : learner-focused coordination tactics beyond the Pandemergency' was recently published in Archnet-IJAR

The return to campus guide has been updated with current advice and support regarding the University’s COVIDSafe requirements for all educators.

Congratulations to all the winners of the ABP Teaching Awards recently announced during the All-Staff Day award ceremony.

Learning Environments has developed the Subject Copy Forward tool to allow Division Representatives efficiently manage the rollover of content for future subject deliveries and communities.

In this article for the Campus Morning Mail, Role Ajjawi poses some possible ways to reframe feedback, and detach it from the need to simply justify a given grade to students.

Standards Australia has launched a new eLearning module, The value of Australian Standards, an in-depth educational resource about construction standards.

Look at the winning course proposals for Architecture, Climate Change, and Society

We've all been using zoom for months now, and in the lead up to semester it might we worth reflecting on what we can change before we need to do it all again...this article has one suggestion that might work for you.

Subject coordinators and tutors can now access student view from any page on Canvas.

A Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) report into online learning (which analysed student satisfaction surveys from 118 institutions) found that while many students liked having more flexibility in their access to study material and academic advice, they were frustrated by technological problems, like slow internet speeds and audio quality.

Educators are facing down pandemic highlighted inequities and helath issues by innovating in the classroom, with the focus being on human qualities and relationships

Duplicate University of Melbourne Zoom accounts are created when staff log into Zoom using a University email alias. The University is now fixing this duplication to streamline the Zoom login experience.Fixing Zoom account duplication means staff only need to log into Zoom using the University credentials that you use for applications like Canvas. We're carrying out this process on Saturday 12 December 2020 from 10 AM – 12 PM.

This essay by Ashraf Salama and Michael Crosby appeared in the Common Edge on the 14 November 2020

The Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia recently hosted a webinar and have shared the recording of the event.

In a conversation with Higher Education Digest, Ar. Rajendra Kumar talks about the impact of COVID-19 on architecture education, adoption of EdTech by higher education institutions, the future of architecture education post-COVID and much more.

Tips and exercises to bring students into the conversation

Campus Review Opinion piece

How to use in-class simulations in an online environment to maximise student engagement.

Online Learning and Student Wellbeing: Why you should use the pandemic as part of your course

The Value of Virtual Office Hours

“What we do affects people for the whole of their lives and we have to take that job very seriously” (article sourced from Campus Morning Mail)

Please find some new tips on using your Canvas LMS effectively.

It’s harder to read a class when students are learning at home, so teachers need to explicitly ask for feedback.

Learning Environments have provided the following update on the LMS communication tool.

Learning Environments has provided a summary of useful upcoming professional development sessions on how to use educational technologies to enhance teaching and learning.

For those asking "How do I actually run a dual-delivery subject?"; this guide provides an outline of teaching and learning in dual-delivery subjects.

This article looks at the concept of 'beyond being there' in online learning.

Updates on new Canvas deploys that have been deployed this week.

Update on Turnitin technical issues this week.

Educators, edtech enthusiasts, and Canvas users of all levels can watch highlights from the 2020 CanvasCon Online.

A reminder for academic staff from the ABP Special Consideration Officer

Subject coordinators are strongly advised to review and follow this advice to ensure students are adequately supported and prepared for the upcoming assessment period.

We are keen to hear about the experiences of ABP sessional teaching staff – survey headed to your Unimelb inbox.

BEL+T have created a guide for ABP tutors and subject coordinators to help them utilise Miro as an online space for collaborating with students.

How to create exams in your subject and best prepare students for their end of semester exam.

Cadmus has been updated with new features, including time limits and extensions in assignments.

The Student IT team is providing live webinars and virtual drop-in sessions to help students prepare for online exams.

GCUT is a part-time course designed to enhance the teaching skills of staff in Australian higher education institutions.

Now is the time to start communicating to students key exam information. Find out what, and when to communicate; including email templates, in preparation for online exams.

Learning Environments have just announced a new module to help you design your subject in Canvas.

New Zoom breakout room features available this week

The University of Melbourne Counselling and Psychological Services (CAPS) provides free, confidential, short-term professional counselling to currently enrolled students and staff.

Some practice can help to ensure your students know what to expect from online exams this semester, and that the exam runs as smoothly as possible. This advice from Learning Environments will guide you in setting up a practice exam, and use of technology for formative/summative assessments.

The Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education (Melbourne CSHE) is running two online professional development programs in teaching and learning in Semester 2.

Have you considered a weekly video mailbag to increase your student engagement? They are simple to set up, can add a personal touch to your updates, as well as providing students with key information in a more engaging format.

Keeping students engaged used to be difficult. Now, in an online environment, this task has become even more daunting to some!

Learning Environments and Melbourne CSHE are offering the following support for writing open-book exams.

SmartSparrow will be shut down at the end of 2020.

Canvas has deployed some recent updates this week. Find out more about these recent improvements and fixes below:

BEL+T recommends these two resources from Dan Levy, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, to help you refine your teaching approach in semester 2, 2020 and beyond.

Find out how to change your grade-posting setting in Canvas from automatic to manual.

This is the last week that historically-submitted student work can be retrieved from Blackboard.

We are aware of an issue with the Kaltura video platform playing via particular platforms connected to Canvas sites as of this morning, Tuesday 2 September.

Watch the recording of Melbourne CSHE seminar ‘Enhancing teacher presence and maintaining connections with students online (for time-poor academics)’

Two Canvas functions that can save you headaches and heartaches.

BEL+T are pleased to announce that our DIA framework, along with its DIAgram, has been shared by Distance Design Education.

BEL+T has created a range of guides to help you create your own virtual site visits. Consider these approaches to support your teaching during Victoria's lockdown restrictions, and beyond.

Congratulations to our ABP colleagues who have been successful in round two of the University Learning and Teaching Initiative (LTI) scheme for 2020!

In this session recording, the CRADLE research group at Deakin look at the challenges and opportunities of higher education’s rapid shift to on-line teaching.

Learning Environments have created an instructional guide that shows how to enable live streaming from Universal Capture so your recordings are available in real time.

The July recipient of the “Celebrating Great ABP Moves Online” award is … Alberto Pugnale!

To support your teaching during Victoria's coronavirus restrictions, BEL+T is generating a range of resources for developing virtual site visits. The first guide shows how you can integrate Google Street View into your LMS.

Semester 2 induction sessions have now concluded, but you can still access the three learning experiences and related resources available via the ABP Teaching community site.

MCSHE have two new resource pages where you can find support for teaching and learning.

How to access the decommission summary roadmap and retired Blackboard support materials.

Tips and a webinar on designing a curriculum for hybrid classes (from Harvard Business Publishing Education).

Online access to Bloomsbury Architecture Library is available for Semester 2.

The University of Melbourne Excellence Awards – 2020 winners have been announced.

In this article from Advance HE, Tim Hinchcliffe explores the world of taking practical based subjects and making them work in an online space.

How to add (or re-add) subjects to your Dashboard in the LMS.

Find a range of support options to help you prepare for teaching online in semester 2, 2020

Merlin Crossley discusses the connection between collaboration, technology and teaching.

With Semester 2 timetables now live, these updates may help limit/streamline instructor calendars within Canvas.

The Staff Roles tool is now available in the LMS. Read on to learn more about its benefits and how to use it.

The evidence from the Semester 1 experience, assembled from a variety focus groups, questionnaires and student comments, indicates there are three principal areas where improvement can be achieved.

The Blackboard decommission process has begun.

A range of feature updates and bug fixes are scheduled for this week, including better visibility of subject status, improved control of email notifications and bulk editing assignment dates.

Subjects in Semester 2 (SM2 and S2E) teaching deliveries will automatically be made available to students on Friday 24 July 2020.

The June recipient of the “Celebrating Great ABP Moves Online” award is … James Helal!

These options will help you to develop your online assessment for semester 2.

A reminder to Subject Coordinators who are preparing for exams in the special and supplementary examinations conducted over 23-30 July.

Updates from the ABP Library to support your online teaching for winter intensives and semester 2.

This article by Tasadduq Imam for Campus Review shares practices to consider for online teaching.

The next Project Evolve Roadshow will be held virtually via Zoom rooms at 2-3 pm on Wednesday 15 July 2020.

How to prepare your end of semester marks in Gradebook for StudentOne

Access to Blackboard ‘Institution Folders’, ‘Personal Folders’ and Playpen will no longer be available from early September 2020.

Can a reset into a responsive, resilient and relevant ecosystem-of-learning for architectural education be achieved?

BEL+T has developed a collection of new ABP-specific Canvas resources to support your teaching.

The Autodesk construction blog provides a range of construction educators' experiences in shifting to remote teaching.

Learning Environments have released some helpful tips on how to best manage marking in Canvas for the end of semester.

Congratulations to MSD graduate Bridget Nathan!

New resources are now available for the 'Improving online learning quality' Learning and Teaching Initiative (LTI)

Did you know you can bring up the editing menu while on a Canvas page by simply using a keyboard shortcut?

New video resources to support students preparing for online exams

How have you as a teacher used the act of drawing as a tool to help your learning and teaching BEFORE and AFTER the closure of university campuses as a result of COVID-19?

The May recipient of the “Celebrating Great ABP Moves Online” award is … The ABP Construction Staff!

Melbourne CSHE has developed a series of short guides that offer practical, evidence-based advice for academics and teaching staff.

As part of the Melbourne CSHE Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) research program MCSHE are establishing a Scholarship Of Technology Enhanced Learning (SoTEL) research network across the University. If you are part of an existing TEL research group that would like to become part of the SoTEL research network, or you would like to join one, or establish a new one - please contact Associate Professor Thomas Cochrane.

An outline of the steps for producing assessments for a digital environment is now available via the Staff Hub.

In response to the COVID-19 situation, MCSHE have regrettably postponed the LH Martin Institute Conference to early 2021. However, to keep the conversation going, they will be presenting a series of webinars throughout October looking at the theme of ‘Crisis, responsibility and opportunity: Educational leadership during major change.’

A discussion board for online exams has been added to each subject for Semester 1, 2020. The purpose of the discussion board is to allow students to ask questions during their online exams. Subject coordinators will be able to answer questions from students as they arise during the exam.

As we approach final online student presentations, ensure your online assessment design is set up to proceed seamlessly.

Microsoft Immersive Reader is now available.

Applications are now invited for Learning and Teaching Initiative Grants Round 2, 2020. The application deadline is 26 June.

Professor Richard James, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Undergraduate), has provided the following advice.

There is a current known issue in which Subject Coordinator roles may lose access to Canvas sites.

With a virtual library service now operating, the following options can be used to find resources to support your teaching and research.

This "egg-celent" DIY method will suit teachers and students.

These guides will help both staff and students in using the shared workspace tool to communicate and collaborate on shared projects.

A new feature is now available for your LMS assignments where you can choose how many attempts or submissions students can make.

Charrette issue 6(1) now available.

Learning Environments live and recorded workshops/webinars currently available to ABP staff.

Learning Environments has compiled a range of technical guides to help academic staff set up end-of-semester exams.

The April recipient of the “Celebrating Great ABP Moves Online” award is … Nano Langenheim!

Did you know that Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) transcripts are available in Lecture Capture?

In this article, Professor Kevin Ashford-Rowe from Queensland University of Technology discusses the need to embrace Digital Transformation.

In this article, Southern Cross University's Dr Airdre Grant considers one key element that needs to be incorporated in the shift to online teaching.

With the increasing global use of Zoom, the University has sought to further secure the platform and prevent unsolicited access to meetings, or 'Zoom-bombing'.

The Library has been compiling and maintaining a list on how publishers are supporting the scholarly community by opening up additional content.

The Video & Media Production site has been updated with new resources for taking your public lecture event online and resources for self-service remote video production

The Learning Environments LMS daily drop-in sessions continue online. We encourage you to drop in and ask a question or chat about how best to design your online subject.

For guidance on how to create group assignments in your subject, and what to watch out for, click here

The ability to monitor enrolment changes in a subject has now been implemented in Canvas subjects with the new custom Enrolment Change Log tool.

Interested in how to identify students that may be at risk, view the content items that students are accessing, and conduct quick comparisons? Learning Environments have created guide to using New analytics in Canvas.

With the increased use of Zoom conferencing throughout the University, is it important to know the security and privacy measures in place to protect staff and students.

The ABP Library team would love to know if there’s anything else they can do to support you and your students, and to provide access to digital collections for your subjects. Please get in contact with the Library to explore options.  Please also note that from Wednesday 22 April the Library Catalogue search has defaulted to online collections.

This guide has been created as part of the Melbourne CSHE Teaching and Learning Short Guide Series.

Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education is running a range of professional development programs and events from April to June.

Microsoft’s Higher Education Remote Learning Interview series features a range of interviews from leading experts and practitioners online collaborative learning. Universities around the world are racing to offer students on-line learning opportunities that allow them to continue studying despite the restrictions imposed to stop the spread of COVID-19. Australian universities have pioneered a series of world-leading on-line learning initiatives that have already proven highly effective, delivering impressive results in terms of student engagement and subject grasp.

The Learning Environments homepage continues to be updated with useful resources for remote teaching and learning during Semester 1, 2020.

Cadmus: The Written Content Assessment Tool

Session recordings from the recent Project Evolve Roadshow are now available for staff to watch.

Learning Environments have integrated Gradescope into Canvas. Gradescope can support your online feedback and assessment needs and is recommended for areas that can benefit from handwritten or hand-drawn responses.

Learning Environments has announced some new developments in relation to Canvas use and resources.

Make use of the Canvas Grade Posting Policy and other settings to choose when students see their grades.

Support resources are being developed rapidly to share a range of technology-enabled options for adapting teaching materials and learning activities – our first sections on delivering lectures and tutorials online, and checking in with students are now available. Check in as LE continue to add more resources shortly

Learning Environments' new page outlines the fundamentals of delivering an online subject are relatively easy to adopt. Details and tips in three fundamental areas are provided below.

One of the biggest changes we’re seeing as a result of coronavirus is university teachers having to shift their content and teaching online. I’m one of a handful of people in the world with a PhD in the effective delivery of online university teaching and learning.

BEL+T has created a new page with resources and advice to support your move online.

Distance and online design education – a (not so) quick introduction offers a thorough introduction to key issues and approaches to this challenge.

This document introduces the New Rich Content Editor, which enhances the content creation experience.

The following information advises on a range of flexible options for staff delivering teaching materials to students who are impacted by various travel restrictions due to the novel coronavirus and are yet to be able to travel to Australia.

Semester 1 and year-long subjects will be made available to students on Friday 21st February. Read more for information about how to manage your subject's availability to students.

The way Turnitin is used at the University is changing as of Semester 1, 2020. Please review the changes and get in touch if you would like assistance.

Doctor David Kellermann’s Microsoft Inspire 2019 presentation blew us all away! The story of how he transformed a Mechanical engineering class of “500 islands” into a single learning community, continues to motivate educational institutions to achieve more (and even enterprises including groups at Microsoft). We have since been eagerly waiting to leverage his unique and remarkable brainchild – the QBot! Today, we’re thrilled to announce that QBot – the learning community bot – is available as an opensource app on GitHub.

Announcing the launch of The International Journal of Education in Architecture and Design!

Congratulations to Bachelor of Design architectural technology subject coordinators for their successful Learning and Teaching Initiative grant of $80,000 (Round 1 2020)! Terrific news!

MSD student Victoria King has won the RIBA President’s Silver Medal 2019 for her Independent Thesis project ‘Surface Tension: Blueprints for Observing Contamination in the Sydney Harbour Estuary’.

Future Tense, presented on ABC Radio National by Antony Funnell, and available via the ABC Listen app, offers a critical engagement with emerging technologies.This broadcast (10 Nov, 2019) explored AI, ethics and education.  It presents a peek at future education possibilities and expert perspectives on associated issues and challenges.

Find out more about the November Canvas updates from Project Evolve

A ‘Learning through immersive media’ workshop was held recently in the new Digital Learning Hub in MDHS. Hosted by Learning Environments, the workshop consisted of presentations on virtual reality, augmented reality and 360 video, as well as providing participants the opportunity to try out the latest equipment and educational applications.

From Wednesday 1 January 2020, the University will not reimburse any staff member the cost of obtaining a Working with Children Check (WWCC).

We are keen to hear about the experiences of ABP sessional teaching staff

Recent article on global edtech conferences and education published in the Campus Morning Mail.

Project Evolve jointly with Learning Environments is hosting a series of canvas Workshops to provide training ahead of subject migration consultations in preparation for the 2020 rollout of Canvas and Kaltura.

The Student Life White Paper describes the ambition for a new Melbourne student experience, and makes a series of commitments to deepen the relationship between the University and its students.

Congratulations to Wendy Walls and Dr Jillian Walliss for their successful application to the Round 2 of the Learning and Teaching Initiatives.

Learning Environments has been providing Canvas and Kaltura workshops for nominated staff involved in the Semester 2, 2019 Canvas pilot. These workshops are now open to all teaching staff.

Learning Environments have recently launched a winter series of five evenings focused on video storytelling. Researcher, teacher, professional, or passionate storyteller alike, everyone is welcome to come along and get inspired.

A better Future: A Celebration of 50 years of Urban Planning at Melbourne University launched on Friday 26 July with great success. Featuring artifacts, planning schemes, maps, and student work from the ABP library's extensive urban planning collections, the exhibition showcases a fifty year overview of the developing city of Melbourne and the associated educational and departmental context.

The Faculty has created an online Application for Extension for students enrolled in ABP subjects to use when requesting short extensions of up to 10 working days.The Application for Extension form can be accessed here: https://edsc.unimelb.edu.au/resources/list-of-forms/application-for-extension. You may wish to publish an announcement on your subject’s LMS page informing students of this.We have created this online form as we have received feedback from a number of subject coordinators stating that the number of requests for extensions has increased and is taking up a significant amount of their time. BenefitsThis web form would allow us to track how many requests are being submitted for each subjectThe Student Programs Team would be able to run weekly reports and send them to subject coordinators as an Excel spreadsheet showing all of the applications for extensions that have been submitted for their respective subjectsDuring quiet periods of semester, the Student Programs Team would be able to audit a percentage of the supporting documentation for authenticity as the number of altered/forged documents submitted by students appears to be on the riseThe webform provides students with information about eligibility, processing times and information on when they must apply for Special ConsiderationStudents would no longer have to print out a paper form, sign it, scan it and email it back to their subject coordinator/senior tutorProcessAll ABP subject coordinators would put an announcement on their subject’s LMS advising students that any applications for extensions of up to 10 working days should be made via the following link: https://edsc.unimelb.edu.au/resources/list-of-forms/application-for-extensionWhen students submit an online application for extension, it would be forwarded directly to the subject coordinator of the subject via email with any supporting documentation attached.The academic staff member would assess the application and advise the student of the outcome via email within 3 working days.Students granted an extension must attach the advice of the extension to their assignment when submitting via LMS or to the subject coordinator/tutor/studio leader.A copy of the application and supporting documentation would be kept on file in the abp-specialconsid@unimelb.edu.au inbox for auditing purposes.According to University policy, academic staff may grant extensions for submission of assessment of up to  10 working days, in certain eligible circumstances.  Please note that requests for extensions cannot be granted for the following ineligible circumstances:computer failureassessment tasks in other subjects dueemployment responsibilities and routine financial support needsstress or ‘normal’ anxiety, study difficultiesdifficulties adjusting to university lifelanguage difficultiesminor inconvenienceregularnormal life events, such as:family life,work,sporting activities,social and other commitments,minor interruptions and disruption to routine that might result from minor illness, mishap or other minor adversity.

Congratulations to our students who recently took out third place at the 12th Innovation Competition in Construction Engineering and Management (ICCEM), hosted by Tsinghua University.

In preparation for Semester 2, 2019, Learning Environments has put together a few useful links and resources. Click here for more information.

Find here the July updates on Canvas and Project Evolve

Melbourne InnovatEd is an incubation program for educational technology (ed tech) innovations at the University of Melbourne.

Learning Environments and the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education offer Designing for Learning with Technology workshops

A team of ABP Students, led by Dr Sofia Colabella, was awarded the bronze medal at the 2019 Tongji International Construction Festival and 2019 "Fengyuzhu" Plastic Polypropylene Sheet Competition. Congratulations!

This workshop series is designed for those teaching and academic specialists who are interested in researching their own curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment (TLA) practices.

MSD students exhibited in Chateau of Chambord 500 year celebration exhibition in France.

On Wednesday 26 June, Michael Mack was presented with the Student Choice Award for Sessional Teachers 2018. Congratulations Michael!

Melbourne CSHE recently hosted a higher education policy discussion The Purpose of Higher Education and How Its Funding Can Be Sustainable.

A 40-minute online mental health training program has been developed by Counsellors from Counselling and Psychological Services (CAPS) for staff who need to know the essentials in supporting students experiencing mental health  problems on campus.

We are keen to hear about the experiences of ABP sessional teaching staff

Find out more about the why, when and how of our move to a new Learning Management System (LMS).

The pilot BEL+T Sessional Session took place on Wednesday April 10. The focus was on Teaching for Inclusive Learning and it was terrific to share a focus and ideas with staff who are teaching, and supporting teaching and students, as well as student representatives.

It is great to celebrate colleagues’ success, and two ABP projects funded through the 2019 Learning and Teaching Initiative grants (Round 1). These projects were both successful in the FlexAP-focussed Intensive, Summer and Winter stream.Dr Siqing Chen has received a grant to redevelop ABPL90319 GIS in Planning, Design and Development;Prof Michele Acuto, Dr Ihnji Jon and Dr Derlie Mateo-Babiano have received a grant to develop a new subject focussing on City Leadership and international urban planning approaches, and aligned to the Connected Cities Lab.

A team of Masters students from the Melbourne School of Design have won the 2019 CoreNet Global Academic Challenge 4.0 in Hong Kong.

The Semester 1 Subject Experience Survey (SES) runs from Monday 20 May to Sunday 9 June.