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CTLE 2019 Half-Day Faculty Development Workshop onDigital-Age Learning

Session C: UMX: Challenges and Opportunities (Part II)

11:15 – 12:15

Moderator: Katrine WONG

SPOC

CISC1000 Information Technology Fundamentals and Practices

Miguel GOMES DA COSTA Junior

Teng LAM

Kam Hou VAT

Derek Fai WONG

MOOC

Creativity

Davood GOZLI

Michael LI

Katrine WONG

More information on MOOCs at UM

Point of contact: CTLE

Advice and support can be provided by CTLE

• E.g., can help liaise with service

provider, XuetangX

Enquiries: Katrine WONG, kwong@um.edu.mo

CTLE 2019 Half-Day Faculty Development Workshop on Digital-Age Learning (Part II)

Session D: Lessons on Revamping Large Classes with Technology

12:15 – 13:15 16 January 2019 University of Macau

Lessons from Revamping a Large GE CourseProf. Yisu Zhou (FED)

What's New with Student Response Systems, Google Forms, Poll

Everywhere, and Rain Classroom

Dr. Chris Fulton (CTLE)

Moodle Tools for Large Class Sizes: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Prof. Garry Wong (FHS)

What's New with Student Response Systems: Google Forms, Poll Everywhere, and Rain Classroom Dr. Chris Fulton (CTLE)

Outline

1. Popular student response systems at UM

2. New features

3. How these systems are used

Popular student response systems at UM

Top 6 response systems used by academic staff (2018, n=58)

New Feature in Poll Everywhere

Competitions* with multiple-choice quizzes

Used to generate interest and discussion, and anonymous formative assessment

Questions about the syllabus Common misconceptions**

Polls are now limited to 25-40 students

More information:

* https://blog.polleverywhere.com/new-activity-competitions/

**Verkade et al. (2017). Misconceptions as a trigger for enhancing student learning in higher education: A handbook for educators.

https://youtu.be/J7DHY6kxg5I

How Google Forms are used…

Survey students’ expectations (collect feedback);

student profile questionnaire

level of English

best time for office hours

when to use laptops/phones

Mid-term feedback survey;

What can the students do to improve the class?

What can the instructor do to improve the class?

Activity: Google Forms

Scan a QR code

Students answer one short answer question

Teachers view responses in real time

https://go.um.edu.mo/eev0v8hv

Demo: Google Forms

Short answer questions,

Exit ticket template

Multiple-choice questions,

Assessment template

Q&A

How Rain Classroom works (simplified)

1. A teacher creates slides and questions in PowerPoint

2. Links WeChat account to PowerPoint

3. Uploads PPT to WeChat

4. A teacher starts the enhanced PPT for students

5. Students scan a QR code with WeChat to launch a Rain Classroom mini-program

6. Students navigate the RC mini-program to see slides and answer questions

7. Teachers see results on their phone in the RC mini-program, or in PowerPoint

New Feature in Rain Classroom

Happy to help

Contact me for individual assistance

• Choosing a SRS

• Setting up activities/technologies

chrisfulton@um.edu.mo

CTLE Half-Day Faculty

Development Workshop

MOODLE TOOLS FOR LARGE CLASS SIZES: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

PROF. GARRY WONG, FHS

JANUARY 16, 2019

The Class: GEST1002 Quantitative

Reasoning for Social Sciences

Class Description: GEST1002 Quantitative Reasoning for Social

Sciences, Required General Education course for FSS, FED, FAH students

Class Size: 2 Sections of 300 each = 600 students

Teachers: 3 (Prof. Terence Poon, Prof. Vivien Wang, Prof. Wong)(FHS)

Moodle Tools Used:

Management - Announcements, Gradebook, Participants

Activities - Attendance, Assignment, Quizzes

Resources - Files

The Good

Attendance, Participants,

Announcements, Resources, Quizzes

The Good

Attendance, Participants,

Announcements, Resources, Quizzes

The Good

Attendance, Participants,

Announcements, Resources, Quizzes

The Bad

Gradebook

The UGLY

The Summary

Thanks for your attention !

Teachers and Teaching Assistants GEST1002 Course 2018/2019-1