Hearing from the Community: Introducing Elevate to your students
Summary
While I monitored the space, it was for them to do the commenting and I just used them to help my planning of the module.” We asked him how he would recommend other academics to introduce Talis Elevate to their students. I’d also advocate that a little bit and often (drip feed) is much better than expecting them to do loads.“ Anna Rich-Abad is an Assistant Professor within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Nottingham. Anna introduced her students to Talis Elevate by showing it to them in their first seminar session, explaining how it worked and how to access it through their VLE (Virtual Learning Environment), Moodle. She told us that “Students are often wary of them because of the different kinds of language and symbolism, so that allowed them to share tentative interpretations and reassure them that they understood correctly. Rather than work in isolation on this, they sat in pairs to help each other where problems arose and I circulated to make sure they were all accessing the paper using Talis Elevate.” The use of analytics was made clear to students so they had an understanding of how Wendy would be monitoring their activity, as well as how they could use it to track their own progress.