In most courses I have taught in or reviewed, assessment weights rise across the term. The biggest and most-weighted task has been at the end, so students receive feedback on about half or less of their overall marks before the task that has the highest stakes. In redesigning PHCM9391 I tried to change this. The sequence is now front-weighted, so

Online discussion forums often turn into a series of disconnected posts. With A/Prof Anita Heywood I developed a structure and process for assessing students' facilitation of asynchronous peer-led discussion, so that students take responsibility for moderating each other's

When I took over PHCM9391 Health Organisations, Strategy and Change in 2022, two reviews of the Master of Health Leadership and Management (MHLM) had found that this core course needed to cover a wider range of topics. Its learning outcomes were unclear and its assessment had drifted: two of its three tasks assessed the same outcomes, so policy theory and strategic planning were never formally