Webinar · 30 January 2026
Authentic Reflection at Scale
A conversation with the University of Newcastle on achieving 74–80% student engagement across 500+ student cohorts in Psychology, Nursing, and Law.
About This Session
How do you maintain authenticity when managing 500+ students?
The University of Newcastle faced a challenge common across higher education: how do you collect meaningful, ongoing evidence of student thinking when your cohorts span three disciplines and five hundred students at a time? Discussion boards created noise without insight. Canvas assignment submissions captured endpoints, not journeys. Quiz questions measured recall, not reasoning. Word templates sat in downloads folders, untouched. None of these tools addressed the core need - ongoing reflective evidence embedded in the learning environment itself.
This webinar covers what Newcastle did instead - and what happened when they did it. Across Psychology, Nursing, and Law, student engagement averaged 74–80%, higher than any non-assessed activity the team had previously measured. Students navigated no new platforms and required no additional training. The pilot also surfaced something the team had not fully anticipated: that timestamped evidence trails offer a form of protection for students - a progressive record of participation that speaks for itself when academic integrity questions arise.
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Speakers
Featuring
Dr Tegan Bradley
Lecturer, School of Psychological Sciences
University of Newcastle
Meegan McHugh
Manager, Learning Technology, Education and Innovation
University of Newcastle
Sean Duffy
Co-founder & CEO
Stackle
Brad Harrison
Co-founder & Head of Product
Stackle
What Was Covered
Inside the conversation.
THE CHALLENGE
Reflection at scale across three disciplines
Newcastle needed bite-sized, frequent evidence collection embedded in Canvas across Psychology, Nursing, and Law cohorts of 500+ students. Every tool they evaluated - discussion boards, quiz questions, assignment submissions - failed to provide ongoing reflective evidence in the learning context.
THE IMPLEMENTATION
Converting existing content without disrupting the course
The Learning Design and Teaching Innovation team converted existing lab activities into Stackle evidence points, placing them directly beneath videos, case studies, and reading activities within Canvas pages. The shift was not in the learning design - it was in where the evidence was captured.
THE OUTCOMES
74–80% engagement. Zero additional systems.
Across all three disciplines, student engagement averaged 74–80% - higher than any non-assessed activity the team had previously measured. Students navigated no new platforms, created no new accounts, and received no additional training.
THE INSIGHT
Evidence as a safeguard for students
Dr Tegan Bradley noted that timestamped evidence trails offer a form of protection for students - documenting their participation throughout the semester in a way that a single endpoint submission cannot. Where academic integrity questions arise, the progressive record speaks for itself.
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