Event overview
Hands on workshop introducing academic teaching staff to some of the more educationally interesting parts of learn.gold, Goldsmiths' Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
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 Beyond The Obvious demonstration learn.gold area.
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.
Requirements: a working knowledge of the basics of learn.gold, as per the introductory / refresher session.
There are 6 places on each workshop, and you can book one via the website below or by contacting the facilitator Mira Vogel, m.vogel@gold.ac.uk
Find out more and book a place
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Oct 2009 | 1:00pm - 3:00pm | |
| 5 Nov 2009 | 2:00pm - 4:00pm | |
| 7 Dec 2009 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm |
Accessibility
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