The students sat in neat rows facing their computers.
Unlike a computer laboratory with the click-clack of keyboards, all was silent.
The digital clock struck 10, and the e-examination began.
In January 2016, the Centre for Instructional Technology (CIT) and Computer Centre (CCE) facilitated a high-stakes e-exam at MD 1.
About 300 medical students sat for this e-exam, the main MBBS examination.
Many people in the NUS community are familiar with Turnitin, the plagiarism prevention tool for the undergraduate classroom.
NUS has added iThenticate to its plagiarism prevention portfolio. This plagiarism prevention tool, by the makers of Turnitin, is targeted at scholarly and professional plagiarism.
iThenticate enables academics, researchers and postgraduate students to check their own work. Unlike Turnitin, the submitted work is not added to a student database. This means that your submitted work does not become a source that other users' submissions are checked against.
Turnitin will remain for staff to check on students' work in a classroom situation. Unlike iThenticate, Turnitin also has additional features such as PeerMark.
The differences between iThenticate and Turnitin are summarised in the table below.
Existing Active Learning Room at S16
CIT is coordinating with the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, Engineering, Science and the School of Computing to redesign and reconfigure about 35 seminars rooms into active learning seminar rooms to support NUS’ technology-enhanced learning strategy.
A self-recording room will be launched at the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. This is the second self-recording room, after the Faculty of Science. A roadshow and demonstration will be held on Mon 9 Feb at 1030 hrs and Tue 17 Feb at 1430 hrs.
For more information about the roadshow and demonstration, please contact the FASS AV Support Unit.
The Centre for Instructional Technology (CIT) will hold its 6th annual eLearning seminar - BuzzEd 2015 - on Thursday 8 January 2015. Join us as NUS educators share their experience of using technology in the classroom.
Register for BuzzEd today!