The Learning and Teaching Matters newsletter provides just in time resources to support academics and professional staff. Keep up to date with current news and resources through the latest edition below.
The Learning and Teaching Matters newsletter provides just in time resources to support academics and professional staff. Keep up to date with current news and resources through the latest edition below.
As Semester 2 draws to a close and we enter a busy period of marking and administrative tasks, I encourage you to take a moment to read through the information included in this newsletter.
The ACU community continues to thrive thanks to the dedication of our staff in both academic and professional roles. As we continue to innovate and evolve our teaching practices, CEI welcomes your feedback, ideas, and reflections for the year ahead, based on your experiences and those of your students.
SELT surveys are an integral feedback mechanism, and we encourage you to promote the importance of completing the surveys to your students. You can access promotional materials to share in your classrooms here. You can also monitor the response rates of your survey(s) in Canvas, see how to check them here.
If you have any questions, please get in touch with CEI@acu.edu.au.
Professor Anthony Whitty
Director, CEI
Join us next Wednesday, 22 October for this year's CEI Teaching and Learning Showcase. This national event brings together educators and innovators from across ACU and the higher education sector to explore this year's theme, Reimagining Human Connection in an Age of Digital Disruption.
This special event will feature:
Rooms are reserved across all campuses (excl. Blacktown) to support in-person networking, meaningful conversations, and shared refreshments.
Register your attendance and view the full event program on the CEI Showcase Series webpage.
We look forward to welcoming you to the CEI Showcase. For any questions, please contact CEI@acu.edu.au.
The CPP Team are busily reviewing applications for upcoming placement windows for nursing, midwifery, social work, and teaching cohorts. Staff play a key role in supporting student awareness and application readiness.
There are 3 key stages of CPP eligibility:
You can support students by:
The following resources will help students gain a better understanding:
For further questions, please contact CPP@acu.edu.au.
The 2025 HELTA Symposium of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning will be hosted online on 4 December.
All academic and professional staff are encouraged to attend the Symposium online. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about teaching initiatives happening across the university, beyond your own school, faculty or directorate. The event program will be available soon.<
If you have any questions, please contact CEI@acu.edu.au.
This is a reminder of the new integration between the Disability Data Management System (DDMS) and Canvas, to streamline support for students with approved Education Inclusion Plans (EIPs).
The new Canvas and DDMS integration automatically apply additional time to Canvas classic quizzes, for students with an applicable EIP.
All EIPs will be added to Canvas classic quizzes that are timetabled through exams and will be checked to confirm the adjustment has been applied.
For ALL in-class quizzes, staff will need check to confirm the adjustment has been applied.
If you need further assistance, read the support article here or reach out to the Learning Technology Team via Service Central.
We're thrilled to announce the launch of the new AI Ethics tile on the library's AI Hub. This addition explores AI ethics through the lens of Catholic social teaching.
AI Ethics invites readers to reflect on key ethical pillars:
We encourage you to explore this new resource and consider how these principles shape our use of AI. Feel free to share this resource with your students.
A big thank you to faculty colleagues for their valuable feedback and support.
The Academic Skills Unit (ASU) offers tailored, in-depth support to help students thrive in their studies. ASU focuses on building core academic skills in maths, academic language, and learning strategies through a range of services including:
This personalised, curriculum-aligned support is delivered by experienced advisors who understand ACU's academic expectations.
Studiosity provides on-demand, external academic support, available 24/7, to complement the ASU service. Students can submit questions or writing for feedback, but the service is not ACU-specific and does not have the contextual depth of ASU's offerings.
How you can promote ASU to students
You can collaborate with ASU to create discipline-specific workshops or resources to support your students by submitting the Service Central forms below:
Assoc Professor Jennifer Carpenter | Associate Dean Learning Teaching and Governance, Faculty of Education and Arts |
Dr Ian Elmer | Acting Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching, Faculty of Theology and Philosophy |
Assoc Professor Stephen Guinea | Associate Dean, Learning, Teaching and Professional Experience, Faculty of Health Sciences |
Assoc Professor Bhavani Sridharan | Associate Dean (Learning Teaching and Accreditation), Faculty of Law and Business |
Visit Service Central to access Corporate Services.