Teaching Tips

Resetting your Akoraka | Learn course page

8 August 2025

It is important that course pages are reset before each new offering begins. The best time to reset is before students have access to course pages (i.e. at least 8 days prior to teaching commencing).

Marking exams, tests and quizzes

8 August 2025

We use the Quiz activity in Akoraka | Learn for quizzes, tests, and exams. Learn about how to use marking rubrics, provide feedback, and release marks and feedback.

Designing effective marking rubrics

8 August 2025

Time spent developing a marking rubric will pay off as, if designed effectively, your marking rubric will be a tool for assessing student work, improving marking efficiency and consistency, and providing useful feedback.

Moderating course outlines

8 August 2025

Reflecting on your Semester 1 Teaching

8 August 2025

Semester 1 teaching has come to an end and hopefully, you can now breathe. It is also the perfect time to reflect on your teaching before you get busy marking exams or planning for your S2 teaching. 

Support for marking assessment

8 August 2025

Marking online via the Akoraka | Learn course page provides numerous benefits for markers and students throughout the assessment process including submission, marking, and provision of feedback and grades.

Using lesson plans to enhance student learning

8 August 2025

Lesson planning will help you deliver a well-thought-out session and will help your students get the most out of the learning experience.

Setting up Gradebook for the start of semester

8 August 2025

Gradebook in your Akoraka | Learn course page must match your Course Outline assessment table and be set up correctly at least one week prior to the start of teaching.

Mid-Semester Feedback

8 August 2025

Mid-semester feedback is a good way to hear from tauira about how the course is going before the end-of-semester course evaluation.

Reflecting on course evaluations and other feedback

8 August 2025

Using tauira feedback to identify changes that can be made, now and in future course deliveries, will help to improve the student learning experience.

Benefits of peer marking

8 August 2025

Learning how to provide, receive, reflect, and act on feedback is a valuable lifelong skill. Feedback from teacher-student is important, as is student-student feedback.

Assess more, grade less

8 August 2025

You will likely be familiar with the terms “summative assessment” and “formative assessment”. There are a few tech tools available to create formative assessments -- or what we’ll call “knowledge checks".