Week 5

Maintain teacher presence

The presence of an engaged, knowledgeable teacher can help students feel more confident with learning activities and assessments. You can maintain teacher presence by:

• review communication and collaboration options in the LMS or consider using intelligent agents to automate communication
• sharing weekly topic videos, providing information about topic expectations, task feedback and how much time students should be spending on tasks
• monitor discussion
• providing feedback on tasks and answering queries
• using site analytics to see how students are using key learning content in your subject site.

To learn more about teacher practices.

Prepare for remaining assessments

To make sure you’re ready for assessments:

• prepare or review the marking guide/rubrics
• make sure Turnitin is set up (if required)
• Find experts that specialise in the individual needs of students with a disability, from overseas, First Nations student support , elite athletes and students studying a Research degree. Assistive Technology support is also available.

More assessment resources

Support students ahead of remaining assessments

To help students feel prepared for the remaining assessment items, you can:

• encourage students to complete any tasks related to assessment
• send announcements reminding students each week an assessment is due
• explain learning outcomes requirements for each assessment item well in advance of the due date
• organise assessment support e.g. video or online meeting to discuss rubric marking criteria and assessment queries.
• consider providing exemplars that reinforce expectations
• encourage them to submit their draft for assessment feedback on the ways to improve the writing
• support students with use of Student Turnitin if required.