School of Mathematics, Faculty of Science
School of Mathematics Re/Play Showcase Channel - a selection of the best student submissions
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The Digital Education Office were approached by Nina and Jayne to discuss one of the assessment tasks in their unit 'Perspectives in Mathematics'. This second-year unit aims to use a students’ maths background to develop skills in communication, independent project work and supporting peers in group work.
As part of the assessment on supporting peers in group work Nina and Jayne wanted the students to produce a short video in groups of between 3 and 5.
These would be on one of two themes:
The aim of the unit is to develop communication and career skills and the video element is part of an exercise which helps to meet a number of the ILOs.
Objectives for the video element worked on with the DEO were -
The DEO office met with Nina and Jayne to scope out their requirements for the project and gain a high-level overview of how they wanted their students to engage with the video element of the assessed task and how they envisaged they would access and mark the finished videos.
As part of the innovation funding for the extension of the Re/Play project Martin and Pete modelled a submission workflow which utilised Re/play and Blackboard. This was then demonstrated to Nina and Jayne and tweaked based on feedback received.
In order to give the students an online guide to producing videos the DEO team created a video project area in the Blackboard course. This contained three areas -
NB. this is available as a reusable object which can be imported in to any Blackboard course please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk if you would like to discuss using this.
In order to get the students started, Martin and Pete presented the site and talked through the resources on Blackboard during one of the Lectures and provided an open drop in session to assist with any questions.
"Martin and Pete were amazing. From our end the whole process was so smooth and easy. All we had to do was talk to the students about the content of the videos as absolutely every technical aspect was handled promptly and effectively by the DEO team."
Dr Nina Snaith, Reader in Mathematics