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While efforts have be made to embrace group-based learning at UTS, students’ reaction to these efforts appear somewhat mixed. From a positive perspective, students report enjoying the social aspect of group work (eg. making new friends and networking) and the benefits deriving from group synergy (eg. sharing workloads). Despite...
For students to operate effectively in groups, preparation is essential. Students should not be expected to be “team ready” just because they have been working in groups before. Each group experience is new and students need to cover the basics. For example, students need to know: What sort of...
For many students, being in the ‘right’ group is extremely important. Most hope to be placed with compatible members – primarily people they get along with. Other students may get anxious when groups are formed in class – for first–year students, it is the fear of the unknown. For...
After groups have been formed, students are usually expected to begin working together. It’s advisable that their first few meetings are given some structure. An effective way to do this is to use a number of team-building exercises. The main aims of these exercises are to: open communication channels...
Time issues Groups often leave too much work to the last minute and struggle to complete their work on time. As a result, they’re forced to rush the end product and fail to produce work that reflects their full potential. This creates considerable tension within the group that often...
On the 4th of September 2022, the ‘Kaltura Media Repurposing Tool’ was implemented on our media content. The tool’s purpose is to optimise storage space occupied by Kaltura media content. To create space, the tool: identifies videos that have not been accessed in the past three years, marks all...
The process for using captions is similar across a range of UTS-supported platforms, but there are slight differences. To quickly find out how you will need to use captions for your situation, focus on the resource in this collection written specifically for the platform you will be using in...
Professional captions are provided by a third-party service where a human provides the captions to deliver higher levels of accuracy than automated captions. This is critical for students who have captioning as an access requirement. You will receive a notification from the Accessibility Service when you have a student...
Professional captions are provided by a third-party service where a human provides the captions to deliver higher levels of accuracy than automated captions. This is critical for students who have captioning as an access requirement. You will receive a notification from the Accessibility Service when you have a student...
Professional captions are provided by a third-party service where a human provides the captions to deliver higher levels of accuracy than automated captions. This is critical for students who have captioning as an access requirement. The Accessibility Service uses two services for captioning, one where the captioner will be...
