Self-help resources

Australasian Academic Integrity Network summary of institutional responses to the use of Generative AI, May 2023

Understanding academic integrity: TEQSA’s Academic integrity - top 10 tips

Inclusion at Charles Sturt University fosters belonging, enhancing student motivation and achievement. This guide provides practical strategies for academics to create accessible, inclusive learning resources aligned with Universal Design for Learning principles.

This tipsheet offers strategies to boost accessibility and inclusion by fostering belonging, offering choices, and ensuring clarity. Key recommendations include diverse examples, flexible assessments, accessible file formats, and high-contrast visuals, with ongoing evaluation for improvement.

Blackboard PDF: slide deck from the workshop held on 07 July 22. Provides an overview on using Blackboard Ally to create accessible content

Critically evaluating existing assessments to determine resilience and rethink approach in a context of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI).

Assessment Design Principles provide guidance to the course design team

A list of frequently asked questions about the seven day automatic extension. These will be updated as required.

Blank marking rubric template for you to download and edit.

Blackboard PDF: an Ally overview on making your course content accessible

Blackboard Ally refresher presentation slides for training held on 16 May 2023 -  Lachlan Kalache & Sandra Boyd

Example assessment & marking criteria for a briefing paper.

Brightspace Showcase: A new way of learning at Charles Sturt | Held on Thursday, 28 August, from 1 pm to 2 pm.

Three academics presented on how they’re using Brightspace to enhance their subjects. They shared a few highlights from their subject sites and discussed the benefits, challenges, and lessons they've learned from using the new system.

Example assessment & marking criteria for business case assessment types.

Example assessment & marking criteria for case analysis assessment types.

Six assessment challenges for students unfamiliar with assessment practices

DLT Team Charter - Values in Action

Blackboard PDF on using Ally to choose a format that’s right for you.

Charles Sturt Learning Analytics Code of Practice

These principles are part of the Curriculum Design Principles and are a set of guiding principles has been developed at the course and subject levels while recognising that courses and subjects are necessarily connected.

How to include additional survey questions in the Subject Experience Survey (SuES)

Using Course Evaluations - The survey Evaluation Report

An introductory guide to using Subject Experience Survey (SuES) (Course Evaluations)

2021 CSEdX Conference Program

Theme: Connecting in a disruptive world

2020 CSEdX Conference Program

Theme: Maximising Student Success in a Post COVID world

2022 CSEdX Conference Program

Theme: Connected and Curious: teaching for inclusion and engagement

CSU Replay (Panopto): Teacher AV Resource Creation Quick Guide.

2017 CSUEd Conference Program

Theme: Valuing Teaching: CSU's Distinctive Learning Experience

Full list of the  Curriculum Architecture Principles. These are written at the course level and align with the current standards and requirements under the Australian Qualifications Framework and Higher Education Standards Framework.

Example assessment & marking criteria for learning sequence assessment types.

Example assessment & marking criteria for digital essay assessment types.

Blackboard PDF on using Ally to  discover and download alternative formats

Example assessment & marking criteria for essay assessment types.

Example assessment & marking criteria for report assessment types.

Example assessment & marking criteria for exam assessment types.

This document is a support resource intended to assist academics in writing/preparing exams and preparing for the exam period(s). It highlights key dates for the 202330 teaching session, focusing on key stakeholder groups in this process. It provides links to the professional development available to support this work.

Faculty of Arts and Education Questionnaire for the Peer Review Portal

Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences Questionnaire for the Peer Review Portal

Faculty of Science and Health Questionnaire for the Peer Review Portal

Good teaching for diverse learners: six principles to explore

This paper provides guidelines for non-professionally accredited work-integrated learning (WIL) subjects, as an addition to the Calibrating Student Workload.

These guidelines are positioned as a useful tool for staff when considering and developing WIL learning experiences.

How to minimise plagiarism in your students’ work in five steps.

This user guide developed collaboratively by the members of the Community of Practice on each phase of the design and implementation process of Interactive oral assessments.

Example assessment & marking criteria for an oral presentation.

Implementing assessment and moderation - example of BIO327

This resource outlines the practical considerations that educators need to make when deciding if, when and how to use GenAI in teaching and assessment.

This framework provides an overview of micro-credential and short courses at Charles. this includes their strategic alignment; types of micro-credentials and short courses;  standards and alignment; governance and procedure.

Academics may ask their students to sit an additional oral presentation for any assignment. This is an opportunity for students to demonstrate their knowledge, competence and, where applicable, authorship of the given assignment. These guidelines step you through this process.

Academics can use this template to report on the outcomes of an oral presentation.

Use the Peer Review of Educational Practice template to guide the collection of evidence for the peer review.
We are developing guidelines to support this template which will be ready soon.

In cases of reciprocal reviews, sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with an external institution. If a reciprocal review is arranged, Faculties should discuss and sign the approved Peer Review of Assessment MOU template with the external institution. Band 6 (HOS) is authorised to sign the MOU.

This template can be tailored to suit the needs of each Peer Review of Assessment or to meet requirements of professional accrediting bodies.

Example report

Example assessment & marking criteria for portfolio assessment types.

Example assessment & marking criteria for presentation assessment types.

An overview of assessments and Generative Artificial Intelligence.

This paper outlines strategies to prevent the misuse of AI tools, with the rise of text generative AI tools.

Example assessment & marking criteria for a book review.

School of Indigenous Australian Studies Terminology Guide for using appropriate terminology regarding First Nations Peoples of Australia.

Subject conveners may use this Quality Assurance (QA) Checklist, QA Officers/moderators/reviewers as a guide when preparing/reviewing subject outlines.

Guidelines on some of the factors that should be weighed when considering sanctions.

These principles are part of the Curriculum Design Principles and are a set of guiding principles has been developed at the course and subject levels while recognising that courses and subjects are necessarily connected.

Subject Substitutions at Charles Sturt – Guidance Notes

You can use the SuES class presentation PowerPoint to motivate your students to provide useful feedback through their survey participation.

The PowerPoint presentation is brief, and there are accompanying notes for you to refer to.

Subject Experience Survey question sets, pre 202260 session

Developing a Teaching Portfolio

The Subject Expectations for Student Success Checklist will enhance student success by providing consistent and well-delivered subjects that align to the Charles Sturt course design and subject principles plus promote retention and progression.

This self-assessment tool allows staff to gauge their progress against the Teaching Capabilities. This tool provides an aspirational pathway for career development and creates spaces for recognition of an individual’s outstanding commitment to learning and teaching.

Extended written response questions using the five-step process.