Design empowering group assessments

This workshop is designed for teaching staff eager to elevate their collaborative learning strategies.

This practical workshop supports educators in designing group assessments that enable meaningful collaboration and active participation. You’ll explore strategies for forming effective student groups and designing tasks that encourage inclusive engagement and social learning.

The session also introduces collaborative technologies such as discussion boards, shared documents, and interactive presentations to enhance learner autonomy and cooperation. By the end of the workshop, you’ll be equipped with tools and techniques to create group assessments that empower students and enhance your teaching practice.

Learning objectives

In this workshop, you will be supported to:

• design group work tasks that encourage active participation from all members and facilitate social learning

• integrate collaborative learning technologies to your teaching including discussion boards, collaborative documents and interactive presentations to enhance learner autonomy and facilitate learner cooperation.

Workshop topics

• Principles and best practice for facilitating effective teamwork

• Larger scale teamwork: group projects

• Tools to facilitate collaborative/team learning

Testimonials

"The facilitators were so lovely. Such a genuine passion and concern for the subject area. So patient and willing to answer questions. I appreciated the group work and the ability for us to learn from one another. Thank you to Daniel, Alexi and Ruby. :)" -Participant from Marketing, Faculty of ABLE.

"Good format and combination of group work, instructor-led sections, opportunities for discussion and questions. Good combination of theory / pedagogical design / principles and chance to try out tools." -Participant from the School of Humanities.

"Excellent, comprehensive, nuanced and knowledgeable content. Dynamic, relatable presenters. Brilliant group discussions. Ruby is quite the expert." -Participant from the School of Education.

This workshop is only available to staff from the University of Adelaide and University of South Australia (including the Integration Management Office). Please ensure that you register with your University staff email account.