Enhancing Your Teaching with eTools
In Fall 2012, CELT will offer the following workshops to introduce you to a range of institutional eTools that support your teaching at HKUST. All faculty members and teaching staff are welcome to join the sessions that are of interest.
About the workshops
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Registration |
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| Introduction to Learning Management and Evaluation System (LMES I) |
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Wed, 5 Sep 12
10:00-11:30 |
Registration closed.
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Tue, 18 Sep 12
12:30 – 14:00 |
Registration closed.
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Tue, 16 Oct 12
12:30 – 14:00 |
Registration closed.
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Promoting Originality to your Students with Turnitin**
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Wed, 5 Sep 12
12:30 – 14:00 |
Registration closed.
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Tue, 27 Nov 12
12:30 – 14:00
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Registration closed.
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| Getting Feedback for Your Teaching with Survey Tool |
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Thu, 20 Sep 12 12:30 – 14:00 |
Registration closed.
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| Facilitators: | Rambo LAI and May TSE, CELT |
| Venue: | Room 3037 (via Lift 1) |
| Target audience: | For faculty and teaching staff who have limited or no experience with the tools and are interested in exploring how they can help enhance their teaching. Only a very basic level of web-skill is required. * Faculty and teaching staff should have attended LMES I or have some basic understanding before attending LMES II. ** Attending the Turnitin workshop is a prerequisite for faculty and teaching staff who plan to use Turnitin. |
| Enquiry: | June Chan (june.chan@ust.hk or Ext 8917) |
About the eTools
LMES is a comprehensive Learning Management System with functionalities similar to Moodle and BlackBoard. It is an adaptation of the open-source LMS, Sakai, and is specially customized for HKUST's own needs. It was introduced to the University since 2005. Currently there are over 1,500 courses using LMES in an academic year.
Turnitin is an originality checking and anti-plagiarism software that is globally used by millions of students and faculty. Beyond checking the originality of students' work, Turnitin is promoting a writing cycle that makes anti-plagiarism more meaningful to students' learning. The cycle includes originality checking, online grading and providing feedback and peer review. HKUST has subscribed to its service in order to minimize plagiarism issues within HKUST. For more information, please go to http://turnitin.com/
Survey Tool is a user-friendly online survey system made available to all faulty and teaching staff at HKUST. With the tool, you can collect survey data from your target groups at your fingertips. Reports can also be generated easily.
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