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Using OnTask to personalise feedback and communication to students: What do academics say?

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Over the past few years, OnTask has been used by academics at UTS to create rule-based messages to personalise feedback and tailor communication to every student in their subject. What is their experience with using this novel personalised messaging tool, and how do they feel about the impact of their personalised communication with students? CIC interviewed a few academics to find out their perspective. OnTask is a tool that draws on learning analytics for personalising feedback. A key feature...
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Using OnTask to personalise feedback and support in your subject | 3 February

Part 1 of 2 for Using OnTask on personalise feedback and support for your subject Are you teaching in a large subject? Do you find it a challenge to support all your students with timely and personalised feedback? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you are invited to attend this workshop! We especially invite staff who are looking to implement OnTask in the Spring session, so that you will have the necessary subject details to strategise OnTask feedback.  In this 2-part onlin...
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Using OnTask to personalise feedback and support in your subject | 16 February

Part 1 of 2 for Using OnTask on personalise feedback and support for your subject Are you teaching in a large subject? Do you find it a challenge to support all your students with timely and personalised feedback? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you are invited to attend this workshop! We especially invite staff who are looking to implement OnTask in the Spring session, so that you will have the necessary subject details to strategise OnTask feedback.  In this 2-part onlin...
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Using OnTask to personalise feedback and support in your course: A hands-on session | 22 February

Part 2 of 2 for Using OnTask on personalise feedback and support for your course Are you teaching in a large course? Do you find it a challenge to support all your students with timely and personalised feedback? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you are invited to attend this workshop! We especially invite staff who are looking to implement OnTask in the Spring semester, so that you will have the necessary course details to strategise OnTask feedback.  In this 2-part online ...
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Using OnTask to personalise feedback and support in your course: A hands-on session | 8 February

Part 2 of 2 for Using OnTask on personalise feedback and support for your course Are you teaching in a large course? Do you find it a challenge to support all your students with timely and personalised feedback? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you are invited to attend this workshop! We especially invite staff who are looking to implement OnTask in the Spring semester, so that you will have the necessary course details to strategise OnTask feedback.  In this 2-part online ...
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OnTask: Supporting students through tailored messaging and feedback at scale

What’s the challenge? Studying at university requires students to be able to maintain a high degree of control over their learning, by setting goals for study, managing their time to keep up with learning tasks and assessments, and using strategies to prepare for examinations. All the while they need to maintain a sufficient level of motivation to consistently engage with their studies. Students need feedback on their progress, so that they know how to adjust their learning strategies and...
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OnTask/LA-API Hackathon

  The opportunity for technical teams to get their hands dirty with OnTask and the LA-API. Agenda to TBC, emerging from Monday's workshop.
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OnTask & Learning Analytics API Workshop

https://youtu.be/QNEhB2do7V4 This workshop brings together system architects from multiple universities interested in the future of the OnTask architecture, and the Learning Analytics API (LA-API) architecture. Both are open source projects from nationally funded OLT projects, with the LA-API expanding the range of data sources that learning analytics services (such as OnTask) can reason about. Workshop leads: Prof. Abelardo Pardo (Univ. S. Australia; OnTask Project Lead) and Dr Kirsty Kitto (...
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Piloting personalised feedback at scale with OnTask

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The UTS 2027 strategy has a priority to develop a more personalised learning experience, and CIC is leading the way in developing and validating how analytics-powered tools advance this. In March, CIC hosted a workshop bringing together colleagues from across UTS and other institutions, to think deeply about the user experience of such systems. Check out the introductory video on one such system, OnTask, and replay the keynote address about ECoach from Holly Derry to see how University of Michig...
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Training: OnTask OLT Project Workshop for UTS Staff

Ever wondered how to provide your students with individual feedback and recommendations on their learning progress both quickly and easily? On Thursday June 22, the UTS Connected Intelligence Centre (CIC) hosted a hands-on workshop to demonstrate the potential applications of OnTask software for UTS staff.  OnTask can be used to integrate data on student activity and learning progress, and automate the mailing out of personalised feedback to your students, composed by yourself based on your per...
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