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Funding

This project is made possible with funding by the Government of Ontario and through eCampusOntario’s support of the Virtual Learning Strategy. Learn more about the Virtual Learning Strategy.

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Accessibility Statement

Seneca and its partners are committed to providing an accessible teaching, learning, living and working community that is barrier-free and inclusive for all individuals. Seneca’s Accessibility Statement Policy is in place to ensure practices and procedures are consistent with the accessibility standards under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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Rethinking Assessment Strategies for Online Learning: a short course for post-secondary educators has been designed to conform with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA, as required by the AODA.

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• All content is navigable by keyboard.
• Hyperlinks are visually distinct and are formatted with meaningful text.
• Proper heading structures were implemented to optimize screen reader navigation.
• All images have alternative text, and when appropriate, a long description.
• The colour contrast of text complies with accessibility guidelines.
• Colour is not used alone to convey information.
• All videos have closed captioning.
• Video transcripts have been created for videos created in-house and for some externally sourced videos.

Contact Information

• E-mail: teaching@senecacollege.ca

This statement was last updated on 23 February 2022.

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Rethinking Assessment Strategies for Online Learning is licensed under the Ontario Commons License Version 1.0 [PDF] and under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0).

This course is not copied, modified, or reused from another resource unless otherwise indicated.

Portions of Module 3 were adapted from the following open resource:

Define, Design, and Deploy: Working with digital assignments and Sandbox assignment packages by Seneca Sandbox is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License. Access for free at https://sites.google.com/view/definedesigndeploy/home

For information about what was used and/or changed in this adaptation, refer to the statement at the bottom of Module 3.

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Redistributing the book verbatim:

Rethinking Assessment Strategies for Online Learning: a short course for post-secondary educators by Seneca College, Durham College, Algonquin College, and University of Ottawa; produced with support from Open Library. The original is freely available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 License, from https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/rethinkingassessment/

Revised or adapted versions:

This material is a revised/adapted version of Rethinking Assessment Strategies for Online Learning: a short course for post-secondary educators by Seneca College, Durham College, Algonquin College, and University of Ottawa; produced with support from Open Library. The original is freely available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 License, from https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/rethinkingassessment/

Individual chapters or pieces:

This material is [created or based on] original work by Seneca College, Durham College, Algonquin College, and University of Ottawa; in Rethinking Assessment Strategies for Online Learning: a short course for post-secondary educators; produced with support from Open Library. The original is freely available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 License, from https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/rethinkingassessment/

How to Reference (APA Style)

Reference list citation:

• Seneca College, Durham College, Algonquin College, and University of Ottawa. (2022). Rethinking Assessment Strategies for Online Learning: a short course for post-secondary educators. Open Library. Retrieved [month] [day], [year], from https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/rethinkingassessment/

In-text citation, paraphrase:

• (Seneca College et al., 2022)

In-text citation, quote:

• (Seneca College et al., 2022, Evaluating Assessments, Developing a rubric section)
  • Note: This work does not have page numbers. Include chapter and/or section when citing direct quotes.