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Best Grading Practices using MyCourses
From a student’s viewpoint, a well-structured and transparent grading system plays an important role in shaping their perception of the assessment’s clarity and fairness in evaluating their achievements. Additionally, from a
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Importing Grades from Excel to MyCourses
Excel is a popular tool among teachers for organizing and editing grades. It offers several custom calculation options and is relatively easy to use. MyCourses allows teachers to export grades, but
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MyCourses’ Calendar updates and fixes
The MyCourses’ Calendar displays not only information about the activities on your MyCourses’ pages, such as assignment deadlines, but it also shows all course events as described on Sisu. Responding to
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More than a course: experience the ONL223 community and approach
Aalto University has participated for several years in the Open Networked Learning course sending in teachers and staff members as attendees as well as facilitators and
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As easy as chalk on a blackboard – Using the Blackboard 2.0 for drawing, writing and presenting in a lecture hall
Blackboard 2.0 is a digital tool developed at Aalto’s Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis that simulates a real life blackboard with extra features that are useful
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Using MyCourses to book appointments
Do you…
- need to book 1-on-1 appointments with students for supervision, feedback, support, etc?
- need book slots for students groups?
- need to offer timeslots
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Reflections on emotional intelligence in online teaching and learning
This post is inspired by a UNITE workshop on Emotional Intelligence in Remote Teaching and Learning held in April 2022 and facilitated by Isabel Gonçalves from the
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