Years of Achievements in the Faculty of

forced to stretch our imaginations and step out of our comfort zones in order to devise innovations that would allow us to overcome the circumstances’. Two such innovations were the introduction of Numbas and Gradescope. These tools proved to be invaluable to those who used them. They not only helped the lecturers conduct assessments more effectively, but they especially helped ease the burden for lecturers of large groups. Now the exciting step of reimagining the future of teaching and learning in the faculty needs to proceed at a rapid pace. Some programmes can easily be adapted to fully online offerings and expanded to cater for retraining of existing professionals. The faculty needs to consider critically the future skills needed, what we teach and how we teach it. For each discipline, we need to strike an optimal balance between faceto-face and online teaching and learning. Many academics accept that as they slowly start transitioning from the ‘emergency responses’ of 2020 to the ‘new different’ of 2021 and onwards, it is not likely that they will teach and assess in the same way again. Embracing the technology that assisted them through the pandemic, while ensuring accessibility to all students, will continue to enhance teaching and learning.

Review of basic algorithms in Miro using flow charts