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Assessment & Curriculum Redesign: Keeping Students Engaged, Making Skills Count

A hands-on workshop to share challenges, compare approaches and work on assessment redesign together.

Tuesday 17 November 2026 – 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM (GMT)
Location: Malmaison Birmingham (1 Wharfside Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom)

Workshop summary

AI is making assessment and curriculum redesign an urgent priority. Jisc identifies a shift towards programme-level assessment, while TEQSA, Australia’s higher education regulator, calls for assessment that captures trustworthy evidence of students’ capabilities and prepares them to use AI responsibly. For university teams, the practical challenge is adapting these changes to their disciplines, time, and students.

Join us for a free, hands-on workshop to bring your assessment challenges, share your expertise and work through ideas with peers. With modern/post 92 universities in mind, we’ll explore how redesign can support engagement and progression for students balancing study, work, commuting and caring responsibilities, while helping them recognise the value of their learning.

A practical starting point is making student development visible throughout a programme. Portfolio-based assessment combines evidence of skills, feedback, and reflection over time, providing a richer picture of learning than a final submission alone. As generative AI reshapes assessment, Jisc highlights portfolios to capture authentic evidence of learning. We’ll explore putting these approaches into practice through Portflow, helping students demonstrate both their learning process and acquired skills.

Designed for learning designers, learning technologists, programme leaders and directors, academic developers, assessment leads, and anyone interested in assessment and curriculum redesign.

Connect with peers who understand your challenges, and leave with fresh perspectives, a practical workbook, and lasting connections. Bring a challenge, share your perspective, and help shape the conversation!

Agenda

  • Welcome refreshments and introductions
    Meet fellow participants and the Portflow team, and share what brings you to the workshop.

  • Shared challenges: assessment, engagement and student outcomes
    Explore the pressures facing modern universities, from redesigning assessment in response to AI to supporting students with competing commitments and helping them recognise the skills and value their degree offers.

  • Putting ideas into practice with Portflow
    See how portfolio-based approaches can support assessment redesign, make skills and progress visible, and help students stay engaged with their learning. We’ll demonstrate how Portflow connects evidence, feedback and reflection across the student journey.

  • Collaborative assessment redesign workshop
    Bring an assessment challenge and work through it with peers using a practical workbook. Compare approaches and explore changes that fit your students, learning outcomes and team capacity.

  • Lunch, shared ideas and next steps
    Continue the conversation over lunch, exchange workshop insights and get to know colleagues as you consider what to take back to your team.

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