Assessment, Teaching and Learning: A Fractured Relationship Assessment in education is the measurement of learning; that is, what a student has learned relative to a set of expectations. If students are tasked with learning the content, knowledge and skills detailed in the curriculum, it seems reasonable to expect that these are the outcomes that a […]
Turnitin.com is widely used in our secondary schools as a text-matching tool for written work, but the tool itself is frequently misunderstood, and sometimes misapplied. This software, in its most basic application, identifies academic integrity issues through its Similarity Reports, which compare student papers with a database of archived content. Turnitin.com checks submitted papers against […]
With all the excitement about Google Classroom and D2L’s new Daylight experience, some users have forgotten about Moodle, our other Learning Management System (LMS). We are pleased to announce that Moodle has not gone anywhere; in fact, the platform has recently been updated to the latest version on a rebuilt server. These changes make Moodle […]
YouTube Live is now available in the DDSB. Teachers can create a live stream and invite users to view the stream through a link. Viewers are able to participate in a live stream through an optional chat feature. Don’t want to broadcast live? Not a problem. YouTube Live automatically records your sessions so teachers can […]
