With Autumn session just around the corner, we are extending our support hours so we can help all teaching staff who are starting with Canvas ensure that their subject site is good to go. Even if you’re not using Canvas yet, we’ll be assisting with a wide range of...
Turnitin is one of the most important tools at UTS for identifying cases of academic dishonesty. However, feedback to the Education Portfolio team from our academic community revealed issues with the Turnitin assignment setup in Canvas – primarily, that it was a complicated process and involved too many steps,...
What does a university in Mexico City, a German transdisciplinary methods centre and the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at UTS have in common? A passion for innovative research and education that cross boundaries to create social and environmental change. Associate Professor Dena Fam from ISF and Professor Ulli...
Welcome to the ‘Happy Wanderer’s Place’ – an open space for visitors to connect to Country in an urban environment.
Learning and research. The raison d’être of universities. But what does research tell us about the process of learning? Cognitive scientists, Yana Weinstein and Megan Sumeracki, have made it their goal to not only research learning, but to answer and disseminate research findings to teachers, students and the general...
There’s one question to keep front of mind whenever you write any piece of content – why should the audience care? If you want your blog to find and engage an audience, you need to keep them in mind from the beginning. Here are 5 blog writing tips keeping...
In the lead-up to the Autumn 2020 teaching session, we’ve put together a program of workshops to help you with the process of setting up assessment tasks, marking and providing feedback in Canvas, UTSOnline (Blackboard), REVIEW and Turnitin.
This year, we embarked on one of our biggest learning and teaching programs at UTS with the LX Transformation. Our move to Canvas, starting with postgraduate courses, is an opportunity to match our digital environment to the campus experience, as well as an opportunity to transform the student experience...
With a wide-ranging learning and teaching community at UTS, we’re lucky at Futures to work with experienced and knowledgable practitioners who generously share their ideas with us and the wider community through blog posts. 2019 was another year of excellent content, and we’re proud to share some of our...
Abbey Warren is a second year Bachelor of Biotechnology and Bachelor of Business student who leads in Cell Biology and Genetics as a U:PASS leader. U:PASS Leaders are high achieving students who facilitate study classes in a range of first and second year subjects. I’ve never been as nervous...
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