Spark an Idea – Nifty Assessments Submission Form – 2025 University of Toronto Teaching and Learning Symposium

Modality: Spark an Idea Talks will all be delivered online

Note: Each presenter has a total of 15 minutes to summarize their strategy/assessment, highlighting its impact (10 minutes) and facilitate a brief question-and-answer discussion (5 minutes).

Contact Information

Main Contact (please note: all communications from the TLS planning committee will be directed only to the Main Contact. If you are submitting a proposal as a team, it will be the Main Contact's responsibility to disseminate Symposium information to their presentation team):

Department/Unit(Required)

Email(Required)

Co-presenters' Information (please list name, department and teaching appointment/staff position title of all presenters; this information will be used for the symposium program):

NOTE: due to time constraints, there is a limit of two presenters per team for Spark an Idea Talks

Session Information

Session Title(Required)

Session Description(Required)

Session Prompts

These prompts will be used by peer reviewers during the selection process.

1. Briefly describe the Learning Outcomes of this session(Required)

2. Briefly describe the format of the assessment.(Required)

3. Briefly explain the context in which this assessment is used and its intended outcomes.(Required)

4.Provide the assessment rationale - identify why this assessment and the associated learning outcomes were developed(Required)

5. Provide/describe an example of the assessment and provide suggestions for how it might be transferable/used in other contexts.(Required)

6. Identify the impact of the assessment - how have students responded?(Required)

2025 University of Toronto Teaching & Learning Symposium

Spark an Idea – Nifty Assessments Submission Form

Submission deadline extended: February 10th at 9am!

Spark an Idea – Nifty Assessments - 15 minutes

Modality: Spark an Idea Talks will all be delivered online

Contact Information

Session Information

Session Prompts