Ready to Teach Week and Ready to Tutor Week – Save the date
Ready to Teach Week will be held from Monday 10 to Friday 14 February 2025. This week of events is designed to help you enhance your teaching skills, prepare materials and foster connections with your peers. It will be followed by Ready to Tutor Week (Monday 24 to Friday 28 February 2025).
Both programs will be released towards the end of January. Keep an eye out for more information and your chance to register for a whole host of sessions.
Lead through Learning: UQ’s Proposed AI and Assessent Approach
During the month of February, we will be running a series of seminars and workshops focused on AI and assessment transformation.
Seminar: UQ's Proposed AI and Assessment Approach – will help you explore UQ's "Lead through Learning" plan (2025–2028) which aims to transform assessment, enhance security, embed discipline-specific AI literacy, and provide resources shaped by staff and student feedback.
Workshop: Update on AI advances + innovative AI examples from UQ academics – will enable you to explore how students can use AI based on recent advancements, debunks common AI myths, and showcases real examples of academics integrating AI into their teaching.
Learn.UQ is upgrading to Blackboard Ultra
This year, UQ will begin transitioning Learn.UQ courses from the current version, Blackboard Original, to the new Blackboard Ultra. Most courses will make this transition in Semester 2 of 2025 and Semester 1 of 2026. Blackboard Ultra offers a clean and modern interface, enhanced functionality, simplified workflows, and improved accessibility, and is mobile friendly.
To preview Ultra, enrol in the Ultra Example site as a student or request a preview site with instructor access by emailing help@elearning.uq.edu.au.
Read about Blackboard Ultra >>
Student Guides have moved
Student eLearning guides have recently moved from the UQ Library website to UQ’s eLearning site. The Library site guides have been unpublished and redirected accordingly. Teaching staff are asked to update the links in their courses.
See the new Ultra student guides >>
Course Teams Archive
All course Microsoft Teams sites created for the academic year (including Sem 1, Sem 2, and the previous Summer Semester) will be archived and restricted to view-only (non-editable) as of Week 4 of the Summer Semester each year. Staff can share this student guide on course Teams archive to their students.
Upload your desktop recordings with Echo360
The recommended tool for uploading desktop recordings to course sites is Echo360 due to its enhanced functionalities for students, including advanced transcript features. Teaching staff can embed videos in an item using the EchoVideo Deep Linking Tool (staff login required) or add them to your Echo360 classroom through the Lecture Recording link.
Confirm your Semester 1 reading lists
Course coordinators, please publish your course reading lists to ensure your readings are available for students by Week 1. The Course reading lists for Semester 1 2025 page provides instructions and offers tools to help you find Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resources, as well as Library modules, guides, and videos for your course.
Digital Assessment Support in 2025
ITaLI's Digital Assessment Team ceased operations at the end of 2024, but please be assured that support for Inspera Assessment and other digital assessment platforms and tools is still available via the following channels:
- eLearning Systems and Support – for staff training and technological support
- AskUs – for student support
- Examinations – for centrally timetabled digital exam operations
- Learning Designers embedded in the schools and faculties – for assessment design support
- Staff guides - Inspera (Original), Inspera (Ultra)
- Student guides - Inspera (Original), Inspera (Ultra)
Furthermore, the University has appointed additional Learning Designers in each faculty, with links to ITaLI, specifically for the purpose of providing assessment design support. These Learning Designers will bolster the existing support services, with a focus on contemporary assessment challenges, tailored to each faculty's needs.
iThenticate – text matching for research papers
The iThenticate text matching system for researchers is available to all UQ staff. While iThenticate uses the same underlying technology and database as Turnitin, the functionality, user experience and reports are designed to meet the needs of researchers. iThenticate allows you to quickly upload, check and examine documents using a web-based interface. Researchers can also share documents, collaborate in groups and view in-depth analytics to provide visibility of content submissions and levels of originality over time.
What's on
eLearning workshops (self-paced)
- Learn.UQ basics
- Learn.UQ quizzes, tests and exams
- Learn.UQ Grade Centre
- Turnitin
- Virtual Classroom (Zoom)
- Desktop recording (Echo360)
- UQ Extend
- Inspera Assessment - Quizzes
- Inspera Assessment - Exams
- Inspera Assessment - Marking workshop
Other events and courses
- Seminar: UQ's Proposed AI and Assessment Approach | 4 February
- Workshop: Update on AI advances + innovative AI examples from UQ academics | 4 February
- Seminar: UQ's Proposed AI and Assessment Approach | 12 February
- Workshop: Update on AI advances + innovative AI examples from UQ academics | 12 February
Teaching and learning support
eLearning support
For technical support with central eLearning tools, email eLearning support.
eLearning Advisers
To receive pedagogical advice from UQ's leading teaching technology experts on using our central eLearning tools, including how to select and configure learning technologies, book a Zoom consultation with an eLearning Adviser.
Workshops
Self-paced online workshops are available for a variety of systems and tools. eLearning advisers are available to deliver custom workshops in your school or faculty. Organise a custom workshop.
Teaching support
ITaLI staff are available to offer pedagogical advice. Please contact itali@uq.edu.au or book a 30-minute Zoom consultation.
Learning Designers
For faculty or school-level support, please refer to the list of Learning Designers in your area.