Filtyp
Don´t let the technology and the digital learning environment be a challenge that disturbs your students learning processes! Did you know that there is a new guide for students by students about the most common tools such as canvas, zoom etc? Don´t waste your time on writing explanations - take part of the guide here: Log in to Canvas Canvas student guide
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/do-you-need-instructions-your-students - 2025-11-05
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Covid-19 has forced us to find alternatives to our traditional exam methods, alternatives that work digitally and on remote. The most common ways to deal with this have been to try to squeeze the traditional methods into a digital format, reduce the time available and add remote “surveillance” of the students. These alternatives have worked fairly well (check her
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/digital-open-book-exam-option-covid-spring - 2025-11-05
As long as we need to examination remotley, we will need to do it in partly new ways. There are no methods for "translating" an examination on campus into the same examination done at home, and different forms of examination handle the adjustments needed differently. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash Home examinations and essays are among the kinds of examinations that work just as well and someti
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/easier-formative-assessment - 2025-11-05
In times when the majority of students need to take exams in an online environment, there are many teachers who wish to monitor the exam via camera surveillance in Zoom. There are many different ways to handle this, Karin Bergman from the department of economics has written about how she approaches this. Foto: Patrick on Unsplash We have used Zoom monitoring in a couple of exams both to prevent st
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/heres-what-we-did-monitoring-zoom - 2025-11-05
Photo by Lukas Blazek on Unsplash As a Swedish university, Lund University needs to ensure that students with disabilities find themselves in a comparable situation with other students. Course coordinators or examiners may need to make adjustments so that the digital teaching and examination is accessible to students with a disability. Some students may have a disability that impairs working memor
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/importance-extended-writing-time - 2025-11-05
In a master’s course in commercial theory where the regular exam was conducted in writing in a physical classroom before the pandemic, the re-examinations were conducted orally via Zoom Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash The course had about 20 students and to emulate the design of the physical exam, the exam was performed in two parts. The students were given different start times for t
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/oral-examination-zoom - 2025-11-05
“I’m committed to the students and their education and I want to make the best I can with the help of the tools we have at our disposal”, says Igor Martins, teacher at School of Economics and Management, Lund University. Since Igor is such a popular teacher he was asked to share his best tips for teaching. Igor was asked to share his best tips for teaching, not by chance but because Igor knows som
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/tips-using-digital-tools-your-course-teacher-year - 2025-11-05
At the School of Economics, Per Jochumzen teaches courses on mathematics and microeconomics. He believes that there are major challenges around how to handle cheating in areas where students’ knowledge cannot be tested through, for example, essays. Peter writes: In my opinion, the biggest challenge with home exams is to prevent cheating. This especially applies to situations where you want to eval
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/creating-conditions-avoid-cheating - 2025-11-05
When using quizzes you might want to adjust the points to make them better match what the student deserve. Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Inflexibility Many of us are using the quiz function in Canvas, both for allowing students to practice and for exams. Canvas uses a rather inflexible way of automatically grading the answers in most cases – either the answers are completely correct or all wrong!
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/using-quizzes-give-your-students-points-they-deserve - 2025-11-05
During the pandemic, when the majority of students needed to take exams in an online environment, many teachers wished to monitor the exam via camera surveillance in Zoom. This may only be needed at certain occasions in the future, and there are many different ways to handle this. Here, Karin Bergman from the Department of Economics, has written about how they did it during the pandemic. Foto: Pat
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/heres-what-we-did-monitoring-zoom-0 - 2025-11-05
As long as we need to examine remotely, we will need to examine in partly new ways. There are no methods for "translating" an on-campus examination into an identical remote examination, but rather, different forms of examination cope with the transition to varying degrees. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash Exam hall and home examinations Home examinations and essays are among the kinds of examinat
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/better-course-formative-examination - 2025-11-05
Many teachers would probably agree that it is an art to write good multiple choice questions. Multiple Choice Questions or MCQ are so-called closed questions, where the answering person gets to choose from a number of given answer options instead of formulating an answer themselves. Photo by Dan Asaki on Unsplash Text by Ann-Catrin Johansson, LTH MCQ When creating your multiple choice questions,
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/art-formulating-mcq-quiz - 2025-11-05
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash The pandemic has made us test alternatives to our traditional exam methods, alternatives that work digitally and on remote. Some of these alternatives are worth keeping also when we head back to traditional, on campus, teaching. One thing we have learned the past years is that remote surveillance is problematic (no guarantee it works 100%) and limiting students’
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/digital-open-book-exam-flexible-option - 2025-11-05
Hans Knutsson, senior lecturer in business economy at EHL, describes the experiences he and his colleagues have had with online exams and the use of Canvas New Quizzes. Photo by Honey Yanibel Minaya Cruz on Unsplash At the School of Economics, where I work as a senior lecturer in business administration, we have spent the last two years working on switching platforms to Canvas. We started early a
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/quizzes-question-banks-and-random-draws - 2025-11-05
What is Zoom-bombing and how can you protect yourself? Photo by Ryan Quintal on Unsplash As the e-meeting tool, Zoom, was becoming more frequently used, it was also subject to more and more infringements. Visits from unauthorised guests who disturb meetings by sharing unpleasant pictures or writing inappropriate texts in the chat are called Zoom-bombing. As a lecturer at Lund University, you can p
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/are-you-afraid-being-zoom-bombed - 2025-11-05
On courses where students often work in groups and need to meet online, using Zoom and its breakout rooms may seem cumbersome, in which case you may use Teams – an alternative to Zoom that is integrated into the Canvas learning platform. At the Faculty of Science’s Department of Biology, Christoffer Johansson is a lecturer on a course where students often work in groups. After trying various digit
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/managing-online-group-exercises-teams - 2025-11-05
Take your chance to attend this online conference on the use of image and sound for learning in higher education. Free for LU staff! Managing and innovating video-based services in Higher Education The Media & Learning Association organizes a conference twice a year. The conference is aimed for university staff (researchers, teachers, ICT-pedagogues, media producers, support staff) working with th
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/online-conference-media-learning - 2025-11-05
Are you unsure about the rules concerning remote exams? Here you will find information, tips and advice on the rules that apply. General information On the Staff Pages, you will find information on: Remote exams Personal data and data protection in connection with remote exams Students in need of learning support Archiving in connection with digital exams How other universities do it – examinati
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/lecturers-exam-anxiety - 2025-11-05
Studying at university can be quite different from many students’ expectations if all teaching is digital. Being a new student in a solely digital learning environment can make it challenging to get to know other students and lecturers, to be part of a social context and to feel a sense of belonging to Lund University, which comes more naturally on campus. There is not a world of difference in ter
https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/interactivity-communication-and-engagement-online-courses - 2025-11-05
Pufendorfinstitutet har antagit Tema "Sound of Democracy" för arbete 1 september 2023 – 30 april 2024. Ett stort grattis riktar vi till de forskare som kommer att ingå i detta Tema och som även är aktiva i Ljudmiljöcentrums forskarnätverk. I Temat Sound of Democracy: how everyday sound environments support, reflect and deflect democratic values kommer demokratiska värderingar att utforskas genom v
https://www.lmc.lu.se/artikel/sound-democracy-nytt-tema-vid-pufendorfinstitutet - 2025-11-05
