Teaching Tips :: Te Kete Wānaka

Reviewing and responding to student feedback

5 April 2023

The mid-semester break is a good time to reflect on how your course is going so far. By now you will have some student feedback which you can review and consider how to respond to.

Open education and open pedagogy

29 March 2023

This week’s tip will give our Lincoln community a brief primer into open education: what it is, why it’s important, and how it can be incorporated into your teaching.

What is really in that recording?

22 March 2023

Watching your own live class recording is a useful way to self-evaluate aspects of your delivery and to see and think about how you come across from a student perspective.

The benefits of online marking

8 March 2023

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.

Designing effective marking rubrics

1 March 2023

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.

Using assessment to improve student learning

22 February 2023

Assessment has several purposes in a course including promoting and enhancing learning, measuring learning, testing students’ competence in achieving the learning outcomes, and informing teaching practices.

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Updating links to LTL resources on your course page

15 February 2023

A lot has happened since you last delivered your Semester One courses, including the launch of Te Kete Wānaka, the LTL website. The changes to the website mean links to specific pages and advice have changed.

Increase Student Engagement with Online Tools

8 February 2023

Engaging students online is an essential skill for all lecturers to have – whether you’re teaching an online course or not. Most, if not all, courses today have some online components to them.

How to Create Better Group Work

25 January 2023

This week’s tip aims to address multiple issues that tend to pop up around group work -- student motivation, unequal workloads and commitment levels, and fair grading to name a few.

Teaching with Microsoft Teams

18 January 2023

Microsoft Teams has replaced Zoom as Lincoln University's supported form of live video conferencing. This week’s tip will focus on the applicability of Teams to your teaching.

Including movement breaks in your class sessions

7 December 2022

A movement break is a pause during sedentary activity, such as a lecture, where students engage in physical activity for 30 seconds to 10 minutes. Movement breaks are simple and can have many benefits for students.

Planning course improvements

30 November 2022

Reflecting on a course and the way it is delivered is an important step in knowing whether what you are doing is working and making a difference to student learning, or if not, what changes could be made.