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On August 19-20, faculty members from across DU gathered in the Anderson Academic Commons for an institute titled “Don’t Lose It, Use It: Bringing What You Created for Your Online Teaching Into Your Face-to-Face Fall”. As the facilitator of this event, it was my privilege to reflect along with these amazing faculty members on all we had learned over the previous academic year, during which everyone had worked so hard to “make it work” with online and hyflex and hybrid teaching in the middle of a pandemic.

Last week, we talked about oral exams as a means of assessment in online courses. This week, we want to introduce how group exams can be facilitated in the online learning environment. If you are interested in both increasing your student engagement and enhancing your online assessment strategies, consider how group exams could work in your course. 

When thinking through assessment in online courses, are you considering how to observe students’ interactions with the course material? Your answer to this question may look differently depending upon the context of your course. Dr. Sabine Lang, from the University of Denver’s Mathematics Department facilitates online assessment in her courses through multi-modal approaches, offering students multiple opportunities to engage with the content and test their knowledge.