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What is Big Interview?

  • Big Interview is an online platform designed to help users practice and improve their interview skills through a combination of video tutorials and interactive practice tools. It offers a range of resources, including mock interview simulations, a question library, and AI-driven feedback to enhance interview performance.
  • This video provides an overview of Big Interview, introducing its main features and how to get started.

Big Interview offers several features, including:

  • immediate feedback and guidance on key aspects of their interview answers
  • reporting tools to help measure user learning and progress
  • online modules to further develop skills
  • virtual mock interviews for all experience levels and dozens of industries
  • access to thousands of interview questions with tips on how best to answer them
  • the ability to rate and share interview answers for feedback
  • a comprehensive video training curriculum
  • a step-by-step interview answer builder, designed for crafting answers to behavioural questions.

Virtual interview training is free for all Griffith students and staff.

Why use Big Interview?

Big Interview is beneficial for both students and academic staff because it:

  • Provides a realistic interview practice environment.
  • Offers tailored feedback to improve interview techniques.
  • Helps build confidence and reduce interview anxiety.
  • Supports a wide range of interview types, including academic, industry-specific, and general job interviews.
  • My Videos - Big Interview Help Center - This article explains how to use the My Videos feature to manage and review recorded mock interviews, which can be useful for assessments.
  • Managing Big Interview Assessment Feedback
  • General Support | Big Interview Help Center - This section provides information on managing feedback and using the platform's tools to track student progress.

How Can I Use It in My Course?

Big Interview is integrated into Canvas via LTI, allowing you to embed mock interview activities directly into your course site. Common use cases include:

  • Practice for placement or graduate job interviews
  • Employability tasks within capstone or career development units
  • Optional skill-building resources for students

There’s no formal request process, course convenors can choose to include Big Interview and access guidance from support teams as needed. To build Big Interview activities for your students within Canvas, you will require administration access. Please fill out this form to get access: Big Interview Access Request

Using Big Interview for assessment

Academic staff can integrate Big Interview into their assessment processes by:

  • Creating custom interview assignments tailored to course objectives.
  • Assigning specific interview questions for students to practice and record their responses.
  • Using the platform’s analytics to track student progress and performance.

Please note that activities created in the Griffith Big Interview environment are accessible by all staff given administration access to build activities. Student responses to activities do remain secure.

How Do I Get Started?

  1. Plan your approach with advice from the Student Experience and Employability (SEE) team.
  2. Enable Big Interview in Canvas with help from the Academic Assist (CCEE) team.
  3. Embed activities into your Canvas site and direct students to access the tool via single sign-on.

Add Big Interview as an Assignment

  1. Access your course site and navigate to the Assignments page on the left-hand menu.
  2. Click on ‘Add Assignment’ button in top right-hand corner (to create new assignment)
  3. Give the assignment a Name
  4. Add the totals point the assignment is worth.
  5. Select the ‘Assignment group’ this assessment is associated with.
  6. Select the ‘Display marks as’ option (default select point).
  7. Set ‘Submission Type’ as External and search for Big Interview: https://griffith.biginterview.com/lti/launch
  8. Select ‘Load this Tool in a New Tab’.
  9. Specify the number of attempts for this assignment.
  10. Specify the ‘Availability dates’ for the assignment.
  11. Select ‘Save and Publish’.

When marking Big Interview assignments, you will need to manually enter marks into the column created. The integration does not currently pass marks between the two systems.

Set up an activity in Big Interview

Managing Big Interview Assessment Feedback

To manage and provide feedback on Big Interview assessments:

  1. Review student interview recordings and AI-generated feedback.
  2. Provide additional personalized feedback based on specific criteria.
  3. Use the platform’s tools to track and document student improvements over time. Rating and Reviewing Practice Videos - https://support.biginterview.com/en/article/rating-and-reviewing-practice-videos-1dck9ye/

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