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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.