At the end of 2025, we remain incredibly grateful for our UTS learning and teaching community, and recognise that stories written for Education Express have been generously contributed in a time of great uncertainty and difficulty. As in previous years, such as 2020’s COVID-induced remote teaching and Zoom boom, or 2023’s rush to catch up with the rapid evolution of GenAI, the learning and teaching staff at UTS have connected throughout this period of ambiguity with innovation and determination. Join us to reflect on and celebrate our community’s many case studies, initiatives and achievements in our end-of-year countdown of our most-read posts from 2025.
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25: Building GenAI literacy and academic integrity with a simple submissions template – Amara Atif and Fabian Roth explain how students in a first-year subject are guided by a template for using and crediting GenAI.
24: Scaling up AI literacy at the Faculty of Health’s GenAI-ENHANCE Summit – A recap of an event sharing GenAI experiences in the Faculty of Health, across UTS and beyond.
23: Student success: bridging PhD research to the real world – For Jiajia Hao, coming to UTS as an international student from China marked the beginning of a transformative journey.
22: Exploring worldviews with your students – Matisse Strong explores how students might be guided to better understand the importance of worldviews.
21: Announcing our successful Senior Fellowship applicants for Autumn 2025 – A list of the first cohort of successful Senior Fellows from the UTS Educational Fellowship Program.
20: Designed different: autism as an asset, not an afterthought – An autism diagnosis led Shaun Bell to consider their strengths and how they shaped their design strategies.
19: From confused to confident: resources that demystify GenAI use at UTS – Amara Atif, Fabian Roth and Delwar Hossain on 2 new student-focused resources for working with GenAI, with support from an FFYE grant.
18: Spring cleaning, part 1: using GenAI in your Spring session subject – The first in our Spring session planning series asked academics to consider how GenAI will be used in their subjects.
17: How to manage consistent due times and late penalties in Canvas – This post answered FAQs about process changes following a protocol change that responds to student feedback and improves the student experience in Canvas.
16: Introducing our new Accessible Personas collection – This illustration-adorned resource collection was a collaboration between staff and students with lived experiences of disability.
15: Teaching with GenAI: building ethics, critical inquiry, and innovation – Milena Bojovic shared an activity to help students gain better awareness of GenAI while building their critical thinking skills.
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14: Neurodivergence and GenAI, part 1: support, on our own terms – In the first part of a 3-part series, Shaun Bell explored the opportunities and risks of GenAI tools supporting diverse learners.
13: Supporting student learning during Ramadan – Students and academics at UTS suggested allowing more flexibility during the Ramadan period for a more inclusive experience.
12: A guide to using GenAI in specific assessment tasks – A table from Josh Dymock to check your students know the do’s and dont’s for using GenAI in assessment tasks.
11: Teaching smarter: using AI avatars to connect with students – Daniela Spanjaard introduced a new kind of support team that shows the AI avatars are here to help, not replace, human teaching.
10: Recognising our teaching and learning community with the UTS Educational Fellowship Program – An introduction to how you career can be enhanced via the UTS Fellowship Community.
9: Education Express: a new brand for the UTS learning and teaching community – We farewelled the long-standing ‘LX’ brand with the new-look ‘Education Express’.
8: Standardised submissions: how will changes to deadlines and extensions impact your Canvas subjects? – Information for Subject Coordinators on what standardised assessment deadlines and late penalties meant for Canvas sites.
7: Introducing the 2025 FFYE Grants – The 10 projects selected for the 2025 FFYE grant round, as explored deeper in the most recent FFYE Forum.
6: Towering achievements at the 2025 Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Awards Ceremony – Achievements of the UTS teaching and learning community were on show at this year’s awards ceremony.
5: UTS Online for Mandarin speakers: reaching out with the Global Digital and Growth Program – The launch of a program where overseas working professionals can access a UTS education without needing to relocate or study in English.
4: How to manage short extensions in Canvas – Answers to queries on managing automated short extensions with the new Assignment Extension tool in Canvas.
3: A new Canvas course to empower UTS students with GenAI literacy – This Canvas course was developed to help students to build their confidence using GenAI while studying at UTS.
2: Secure your assessment design with our new GenAI Canvas modules – There were also new modules on GenAI for staff: an introductory course and a more advanced exploration of assessment design strategies.
And coming in at #1
Open education aims to make education more accessible and inclusive by removing financial and technological barriers to learning via freely available teaching materials. For the third year running, the Education Portfolio and UTS Library teamed up to create an engaging program for OEWeek. The guide to what’s on at UTS Open Education Week is always popular, but this time it soared confidently to the top spot. Congratulations to Mais Fatayer and everyone who contributed to the success of this week-long program, as well as blog post author Scott Britcher.