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Communication Tools in Ufora: an Overview
Clear and structured communication via Ufora is an absolute necessity for your students, especially in times of online or blended education. This page discusses how best to communicate, i.e. which are the proper Ufora tools.
You can find this page now on intranet: https://ugentbe.sharepoint.com/sites/intranet-ict/SitePages/en/Communiceren-via-Ufora.aspx?connectsource=TopicNavigator
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Panopto: Ghent University’s New Video Platform
From the 2023-2024 academic year onwards, Panopto becomes Ghent University’s central video platform. It will serve to record, play, edit, save and share lecture recordings, knowledge clips, instruction videos and so on.
You can find this page on the intranet: https://ugentbe.sharepoint.com/sites/intranet/SitePages/Themas.aspx?termId=57c6f561-35b5-4b8d-a3fe-b95602339bdf
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DUGA: a Quiz App for and by Ghent University Staff
DUGA (Dare to Game) is an app to organise online quizzes.The leaderboard provides a competition element before, during or after your lecture.
You can find this page now on intranet: https://ugentbe.sharepoint.com/sites/intranet-ict/SitePages/en/DUGA.aspx
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Motivating Students to Come to Class Prepared
If you want to use your instruction period as efficiently as possible, you might consider giving your students one or more preparatory assignments. This Education Tip explains how to motivate your students to come to class prepared.
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Work Placement Allowance: Can Trainees Receive a Compensation for their Work?
Is the work placement taking place in Belgium?
Belgian/Flemish law stipulates that trainees must not be paid a salary. However, the host organisation may decide to meet the trainee's expenses in the form of an allowance (either a lump sum or a reimbursement of proven expenses) for …
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What does the COP Work Placement do?
Ghent University has formed a Community of Practice about work placements (COP Work Placements) to support study programmes and work placement providers with learning process supervision of students undertaking an work placement.
This COP work placements offers primary information (for example: How can you phrase, realize and evaluate … Read more -
Using Humour in Class? No Laughing Matter!
The opinions on the use of humour in class are divided. Although lecturers may use humour to stimulate students' motivation and learning process, it does not automatically generate a positive effect. For a positive impact, it is important to always apply humour thoughtfully. Make sure to think about the role …
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Exams: Deleting Questions Afterwards
How do you proceed when you notice afterwards that a particular exam question was wrong, unreasonably difficult or unclear? How do you delete a question from the exam set?
Avoid DeletingPrevention is better than cure:
draw up your exam properly, e.g. by following the technical … Read more -
ENLIGHT: European University
ENLIGHT is a consortium of 9 European partners: it unites the universities of the Basque Country (ES-PV), Bordeaux (FR), Bratislava (SK), Galway (IE), Göttingen (DE), Groningen (NL), Tartu (EE), Uppsala (SE) and Ghent (BE).
Under coordination of Ghent University ENLIGHT was selected in the framework of the second call …
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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 … Read more