Learn.gold: beyond the obvious
Dates
- 15 October 2009, 13:00 - 15:00
- 5 November 2009, 14:00 - 16:00
- 7 December 2009, 15:00 - 17:00
Facilitator
Dr Mira Vogel, Learning Technologist, Learning Enhancement Unit
Description
Learn.gold is an amazingly powerful piece of kit. For staff, visiting
lecturers and course reps there is an ongoing series of lively,
hands-on, 90-minute tours of the less obvious but more educationally
interesting and interactive tools in learn.gold.
- Groups - allows you to divide cohorts into smaller groups for activities on or off learn.gold, and assign individual tutors to each.
- Choice - a polling tool which can be used, for example, to pique interest in a forthcoming session or to arrive at a consensus about a given issue (or, as here, as a sign-up form).
- Assignment - allows you to (in any combination) set, collect, mark, feedback on and run plagiarism detection on work.
- Glossary - allows you and/or your students to create a reference for course jargon or difficult terms; wherever these occur in the course area they automatically link to their definition.
- Wiki - web space in which you and/or your students can work without needed web design skills or special software.
- Web Pages - creating documents for learn.gold as learn.gold Web Pages has many advantages, which will be covered during the session.
- Questionnaire - an online questionnaire tool with a variety of question forms, optionally anonymous responses, and the opportunity to download and analyse data.
- Database - you and/or your students can create a repository or catalogue of web resources, references, poems or many other types of thing.
- Quiz - a trivial name for a powerful self-assessment tool, with feedback.
You can see these in action in the demonstration course area, Beyond the Obvious, linked .
The group will prioritise one or two of the above to examine in
more depth. The session will be followed by an optional 30 minutes of
self-directed exploration time with an expert on hand.
If there is sufficient interest in these tools, individual workshops on any or each can be scheduled separately.
Prerequisites
A working knowledge of the basics of learn.gold (see objectives for the Introduction / Refresher workshop).
To book a place
- Each workshop has 6 places. Book via our learn.gold sign-up form.
Other things to know
- Come with your IT Services username and password (the one you use for Goldsmiths email)
- If
you need to refresh your knowledge of learn.gold beforehand, an
'Introduction to learn.gold handout' (and more) can be found in our demonstration course area
- Bring a drink if you think you'll need one
- If you sign up, please turn up - the session will run
- Transferable usability, accessibility and IT skills and principles will be incorporated at every opportunity.