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Proctorio: Surveillance of an Online Exam
(Online) Proctoring is an online exam surveillance method that can be used during assessments that are fully administered online, taking place either in one’s own (home) environment or on campus. Ghent University uses Proctorio as a provider of online proctoring. Online exam surveillance by Proctorio is organized with the help …
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Online Teaching Community
For Whom?
The online teaching community welcomes lecturers, education support staff, and all other staff members contributing to education at Ghent University.
What?An easily accessible MS Teams platform brings together colleagues from related disciplines, or working with similar teaching methods. Members acquire better insight into new education-related developments, and …
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Education and Quality Assurance Updates
Updates january 2025 GENERAL Feedback after the Exam Period
Every student has a right to feedback after the exams. Please read up on the practicalities of organising feedback, the power of feedback, and which tools to use in our Education Tip on Feedback.
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MS Teams for online lectures
MS Teams is a communication and collaboration platform that integrates chat options, video conferencing and file storage within SharePoint. The tool allows for video calls with groups of up to 1000 participants and has a number of interaction opportunities.
You can find this page on the intranet: https://ugentbe.sharepoint.com/sites/intranet-ict/SitePages/en/MS%20Teams%20voor%20virtual%20classrooms.aspx
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On-campus and Online Oral Assessments
Find out here how to draw up and organise an oral exam, what points to consider when administering and assessing the exam, and what to keep in mind in the case of an online exam.
What is Oral Assessment?During oral assessments, individual students or groups of students answer questions …
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Online Learning in an International Setting: What and Why?
Online Learning in an International Setting: What?
The digitalisation of higher education offers new online learning opportunities within an international environment. Lecturers and study programmes can implement online international collaboration to promote the students’ international and intercultural learning and multiperspectivism without a long-term study abroad experience.
Various formats, with …
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MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses
Are you interested in using high-quality online learning materials developed by other universities? This Education Tip will tell you more about MOOCs and how they can be implemented in your course unit.
What is a MOOC?MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course:
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How to Assess Group Work?
Think thoroughly about how to evaluate group work as the evaluation method strongly determines how the group functions. Determine in advance what you are evalutating. Determine who evaluates and make sure that the evaluation is valid, reliable and transparent.
What do you evaluate in group work?Determine, as concretely as …
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Online Lecture: Tips and Tricks for Interactive Lecturing
What Is It?
By online lectures, we mean synchronous remote teaching: lecturers use certain tools and/or software, and students take the class in real time. A common term for this is ‘webinar’ (from ‘web’ and ‘seminar’).
When to Opt for an Online Lecture? In context of internationalisation … Read more -
How to Moderate Discussions on an Online Forum
What?
An online discussion is a didactic method by means of which students learn to collect information, take a point of view, argue, give feedback to fellow students, and strengthen their communication skills. Discussion also increases student engagement in online education. You can organize discussions either asynchronously (forum), or synchronously …
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How can you set up entrepreneurial activities in your study programme?
Why are entrepreneurial activities relevant to your study programme?
Entrepreneurial activities are closely related to 21st-century skills such as creativity & innovation, problem-solving thinking and the capacity to adjust yourself to ever-changing circumstances. An entrepreneurial mindset prepares students for a future with new types of jobs, needs and issues.
In …
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Glossaries: a Uniform Overview of Teaching and Assessment Methods
What are Glossaries?
Lecturers use the course sheet(s) to indicate which combination of teaching and assessment methods they use in their course unit(s). Our course sheets, and therefore also our students, benefit from clarity and uniformity. Therefore it is important that we all use “the same language”. For that purpose, …
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Online Written Assessments (with Open and/or Multiple Choice Questions)
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What minimum quality requirements should a work placement meet?
To ensure an efficient work placement policy, it is important for a programme to reflect sufficiently on the why, the how and the what of the work placement. In this educational tip, you can discover the minimum quality requirements for a work placement. The tip is based on the Ghent …
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Peer Assessment: Students Assessing Each Other
The method of peer assessment allows your students to also score each other's product in addition to providing content feedback (= peer feedback).
What is Peer Assessment?Using peer assessment or peer evaluation, students evaluate each other's input or performance by means of criteria that are either formulated by …
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Response Lecture (Online)
What is it?
During a response or interaction lecture, students discuss and delve into structured subject matter, they answer questions related to this subject matter and, conversely, you offer them an explicit opportunity to ask you, the teacher, about any uncertainties. Since a response lecture falls under the heading of …
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Who supervises the work placements?
Ghent University distinguishes between an academic promoter and an work placement supervisor for work placement guidance:
The academic promoter is the lecturer responsible for the work placement course unit within the study programme. They are the final responsible for the work placement course unit and decide on the final mark. … Read more -
How can you avoid disputes during a work placement?
Complaints about the evaluations of work placements are firstly processed by the Institutional Appeal Committee (UGent) and, if the student does not agree with the decision, the Council for Disputes concerning Decisions on Study Progress (external appeal). These complaints usually involve the documentation and argumentation of negative final results by …
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Feedback after the Exam Period
In accordance with Article 60 of the Education and Examination Code, every student has the right to receive content-related feedback (this must takes place within the feedback period). This feedback is an important element of the student’s learning process.
This Education Tip delves deeper into:
the regulations for scheduling feedback …
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Interdisciplinary Education: Preconditions for Success
According to Ghent University’s skills model, the Educational Concept and its six Strategic Objectives, students have to learn to cooperate in an interdisciplinary way. Study programmes should incorporate this interdisciplinary dimension purposefully and explicitly. This educational tip teaches you how to shape these interdisciplinary educational activities.
What is interdisciplinary … Read more